Nicholas Sparks always delivers on heartfelt and emotional stories. Counting Miracles is a bit light on romance and means more into a contemporary tale of faith, love, loss and grief. Beautifully written and relatable.

I enjoyed the blend of light romance and a powerful story of long lost family and God’s path. I think there could have been a more compelling aspect to the romance between Tanner and Kaitlyn because I found it fairly mundane and lacking passion, but it was enough to pull together the rest of the story with Jasper. While Jasper’s story ended up being very inspiring, I found myself wondering if I was reading two different books in the beginning. However I knew that Spark’s would reign it all in at the end, which he did beautifully.

Like all Nicholas Sparks books, Counting Miracles has wonderful characters and a great storyline which includes some romance. Even though it plays an important part, romance isn’t the main storyline in this book. This is a story of love, faith, family, loss, grief and survival.

I have always enjoyed Nicholas Sparks’ books and Counting Miracles may be my new favorite. It was a compelling read that held my attention from beginning to end. I highly recommend it. Nicholas Sparks never disappoints.

My thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read and review an advanced reader copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Another great story from Nicholas Sparks. I loved the characters and how the plot wove together different people who ended up being connected. It was not as emotional or deep as most of his books, but I enjoyed the book. The pages are filled with family drama, love, tragedy , and second chances.
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

3.5 stars. This story overall simply made me sad, but you shouldn't be surprised by this with a Nicholas Sparks novel. Nicholas Sparks has a talent to make your heart want to cry and smile at the same time.

Tanner Hughes was an Army Ranger for decades. Now that he is retired and his grandparents (the only family he has ever known) have passed away, he is on the hunt for his birth father.

Kaitlyn Cooper is a single mom to a teenage daughter, Casey, and younger brother, Mitch. She is a doctor. Her son, Mitch, was actually one of my favorite characters in the book. His pure heart was so sweet.

Jasper is an eighty-three old man who has had so much love and loss in his life. His entire family died in a house fire a few decades ago. This same fire disfigured his body as he had burns on the majority of his body. He has secluded himself in a cabin near the national forest with his dog, Arlo. Jasper's story was by far my favorite. Jasper's father was a very religious man who taught Jasper many life lessons through scripture. These scripture passages are sprinkled throughout the entire book. I know that the patrons in my community are also going to love this aspect of the book. You combine a classic Nicholas Sparks book with scripture passages, they will be in heaven! It's Jasper and Mitch's relationship that I loved the most in this book. Mitch saw past Jasper's scary scars, and saw the sweet man who just needed a purpose and love. Mitch and Jasper met weekly to work on whittling (hand carving).

Jasper's history and his search for the albino deer was what kept me reading this book. I wanted to know more about his past, and I wanted him to find his faith again. Tanner and Kaitlyn's love story was a little blah to me. Tanner was just really hard to relate to. I think it is strange that Tanner rents a limo for their first official date. He rents a house in the woods for their first date, so they won't be seen in town.

Something I loved about Kaitlyn's personality was she wanted to add ice cubes to her warm wine (something that I have done multiple times). Kaitlyn was more relatable. The struggle with schedules when it comes to your kids' after-school activities and managing a career. The one part that frustrated me about her was the switched that was flipped halfway through the book. She knew that Tanner was here temporarily. She mentions it numerous times, but at one point it pisses her off that he doesn't HAVE to leave. She wants him to stay to see where things go after only knowing each other for a week. This was just frustrating to me.

I feel like Kaitlyn's daughter, Casey, was not a fully developed character. The first half of the book has her viewed as an emotional teenage daughter who is selfish and gets herself into trouble. The second half of the book has her doing her mom's hair and makeup, offering to watch her brother with no fighting, making hot cocoa for her mother when she sees she's upset, etc. It was just a total personality change in my opinion that was too sudden.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for offering me an advanced copy in return for an honest review.

I loved The Wish by Nicholas Sparks so I was really excited to get this ARC. I feel conflicted because I did enjoy the overall storyline - loved Tanner and Jasper/Arlo, loved the second chance at love trope, older romance…but where it fell short was that everything was too predictable. I lost interest once I figured out what the plot was as I felt that there was not much development to the story after that point in the book. But it’s needless to say that you do get invested in the characters in classic Nicholas Sparks fashion.

💛 Thank you NetGalley, Random House Publishing, and Nicholas Sparks for this ARC!

Sparks has his formula down pat. Emotional story with intertwined characters who find their purpose and all come together in the end. Comfortable, even pacing. And a good balance to storylines.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a gifted ARC in exchange for my honest review.*

Thank you NetGalley for choosing me to read this beautifully written book. I feel so Blessed to be one of the early reviewers for Counting Miracles. Nicholas Sparks is one of my all time favorite authors and this book will join the list of my list of all time favorite books. The title says it all. It’s a very powerful, emotional, and heartfelt story about family. It will tug at your heartstrings and you will shed numerous tears. Si I highly recommend this book as a Must Read and I promise you will not be disappointed. Enjoy!

I feel like we started off strong, but honestly halfway or so I started getting disinterested. We get three POV’s - Kaitlyn and Tanner are our main characters who are weren’t expecting to find each other with him not being able to stay in one place long enough to make a connection and her being a single mom of two and then we have Jasper who is an 83 year old man who lives alone and trying to protect the forest and animals around his home. Every time it switched over to Jasper’s POV I was so bored you guys and I felt like it took away from the story!! I enjoyed Kaitlyn and Tanner’s story and I think it would have worked better if Jasper’s stories were just mixed in by talking to the other characters, not necessarily his own POV which didn’t really have much dialogue, it was just him retelling his past. It also felt like Tanner and Kaitlyn had their plot and Jasper had his own and they didn’t blend that well together for me. I’ve read a lot of Sparks books by now and you still get his detailed emotional story telling in a small town, it just wasn’t working for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌳
I also didn’t like all the hunting talk and Jasper’s story was very religious, a lot of bible verses were quoted and I know some may not enjoy that so wanted to point it out! Oh and it’s closed door!
•
Thank you NetGalley, Nicholas Sparks, and Random House for this e-arc! Counting Miracles comes out September 24!
2m

I really enjoyed this book! Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors, and I was thankful to have been given a chance to read this story. Thank you NetGalley!

Tanner is in Asheboro, North Carolina to look for the father he never knew. This sweet story concerns family and finding your place in life with Christian values scattered throughout. There was a touch of suspense that kept me turning pages. I certainly recommend this book. Thanks to author Nicholas Sparks, Random House / Ballantine, and NetGalley. I received a complimentary copy of this ebook. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

Nicholas Sparks still has it after all these years. I have read many of his books, and love his movies created from them. You can always count on a 5 star read when you pick one up.
My only con on this one, was there is a time when I really didn’t care for Kaitlyn, she made many assumptions based upon a very short time and evidently, she never had a dog before, plus being a doctor she was quite naïve. I loved Jasper and was quite fond of Tanner.
Otherwise there is a lot of heart and love in this tale. Comes in with 5 stars. I truly enjoyed it.
I thank Random House Publishing Group along with NetGalley for providing this Galley edition for no requirement other than my offer to provide an unbiased review.

𝐵𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝑅𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌

Counting Miracles : Nicholas Sparks

Format: eBook (NetGalley)
Publisher: Random House (Ballantine)
Publication Date: September 23, 2024
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

First of all, I never dreamed I’d be reading an advanced copy of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Thank you to Random House Publishing, Nicholas Sparks, and Net Galley for this ARC! Now onto the review…

This book follows 3 main characters: Tanner Hughes, Kaitlyn Cooper, and Jasper Johnson.
Tanner’s grandmother, the last of his living family, passed away from cancer and on her death bed told him his father’s name. He sets out to find him and ends up in Asheboro, NC. This is where he meets Kaitlyn, the town doctor.
Then there is Jasper, he’s basically the town recluse that lives in a cabin near the national forest. All of their stories intertwine throughout the book.

Nicholas Sparks does a beautiful job intertwining the lives of each of these characters. This is such a beautiful story with many life lessons. He always finds a way to throw in a love story as well. The only issue I had with this book is I wanted more from the ending.

#CountingMiracles #NicholasSparks #RandomHouse #BookReviews #BookLover #Bookstagram #Romance #LifeLessons

All the Nicholas Sparks' feels! I want to thank NetGalley for giving me an ARC of this book! Third person POV for three characters. I thoroughly enjoyed each character. I liked the family aspect that was brought to it...a woman that already has two children. I felt that it was an easy and fast read. There are some biblical aspects, which I actually liked. During Jasper's time in the woods, I felt that it was drawn out. I did skip over some of it. There was some detail that didn't necessarily needed to be added. It felt a bit repetitive. I wish there was more romance in it! The ending is sort of abrupt and I wish it went more into detail of the love story. Overall, I am giving this book a 3 star rating. I love his writing, but it was just average for me.

I had not read Nicholas Sparks in years and a couple months ago, The Wish was recommended to me as a must read. After thoroughly enjoying that (and sobbing throughout), I requested this ARC of Counting Miracles. It did not disappoint! I enjoyed both stories that were shared throughout the book. Initially being more interested in Tanner and Kaitlyn's story, but about halfway through, Jasper had my heart (and it completely broke for him). Overall, this is a quick read (I finished it in just a few days time) and one that makes you feel all the warm and fuzzies at the end.
Thank you to @Netgally, @PenguinRandomhouse, and @NicholasSparks for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for my thoughts.
Publication Date: September 24, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Women's Fiction

I would like to thank Random House Publishing Group, NetGalley, and Nicholas Sparks for providing me with an ARC of Counting Miracles in exchange for my honest review.

Counting Miracles follows Jasper, and older man who has lived through many struggles in his life but always finds a way to see the positives in the world and try to make it a better place for others; Tanner who is still trying to find his place in the world, and Kaitlyn who is working on prioritizing herself as well as her family and others.

Counting Miracles is one of my most anticipated books for 2024. Nicholas Sparks is able to expertly bring characters to life and have you rooting for them. A lot of romance books tend to follow a script but Nicholas Sparks books feel like a breath of fresh air from that repetition.

Near the end of the book, the female main character had me screaming at the book because i was so invested in these characters and wanted everything to turn out well.

I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone. It is a romance book but there’s so much more depth to it than that.

Another great work from the infamous Nicholas Sparks. Once I started reading Counting Miracles I could not put the book down!

First I want to thank netgalley for the arc of this book for mg honest review.
First Kaitlyn is a divorced mom/doctor with 2 kids Jasper is an older friend /neighbor who lost all his family
And tanner a ex military guy who showed up looking for his bio dad. We all knew the lives would intertwine somehow we just didn't know how.
Kaitlyn meets tanner when her daughter crashes her car into him and there is attraction between the two of them. It goes back and forth between them and Jasper. I will say the beginning about jasper was quite boring but you had to keep reading about him to learn about his family and that was important. I really enjoyed this book and I'm glad I was able to read it.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book. I typically love all Nicholas Sparks books but this one just wasn’t for me. I really struggled with it and couldn’t finish.

I wanted to love this because, ya know, Nicholas Sparks, but sadly I did not love it 😭 I found it to be a tad boring and I had to keep skimming, hoping it would be over soon.

I did finish it, and it was a cute story when it was all said and done. Tanner, ex military man, is on the hunt for his biological father. When a young girl hits his car in a parking lot, she has him take her home so she can explain everything to her mom with him there. You guessed it, Tanner is intrigued by the mom, Kaitlyn, and falls head over heels for her. Their romance was just not what I expected. I was hoping The Notebook vibes, but I know that’s hard to live up to.

The other POV is an old man named Jasper, who is tracking down a bunch of kids who are poaching deer. He has a tragic fall while in the woods, and Tanner finds him. Unexpectedly, Jasper turns out to be Tanner’s long lost grandfather.

The ending was good, but it was tough getting there. Thanks to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC! 💚