 "New York Daily News" compliments Sparks, commenting that he "has written a sweet tale of young but everlasting love, and though he's told us to expect both joy and sadness, the tears will still come".Clarissa Cruz of "Entertainment Weekly", however, panned the novel, saying, "With its cliche-riddled prose and plot twists that can be predicted after skimming the prologue, Nicholas Sparks' latest, "A Walk To Remember", reads more like the script for a bad after-school special than anything approaching literature.