A Walk to Remember
- 240
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Walk to Remember” is a short, earnest love story set in a small North Carolina town in 1958, and it aims straight for tears. Readers who give in to it are deeply moved, some calling it a favourite, and Jamie, the minister’s daughter, is loved for her kindness. Others find the romance predictable, the characters flat and the prose plain. Sentiment without irony is the whole offer.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times). There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 415 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 25 | 6% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 60 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 330 | 80% |
Frequently asked
What age is A Walk to Remember for?
A Walk to Remember sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 240 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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