The Rosie Effect

Lacks the fun quirkiness of the first book. Instead of being charming and endearing, the characters just annoyed me.

I find the character of Don so endearing and I read this in almost one sitting, like the first book. I was quite frustrated with Rosie who made no attempt to sit down and have an actual conversation with Don at any time during the story. They were more like flatmates. I also love the men's group and how they try to help each other and end up in worse trouble but eventually it all works out.

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3 1/2 stars. I'd find myself annoyed at Don's internal dialogue that constantly interrupts plot and dialogue and almost put the book down...then discover an hour later that apparently I'd been sucked in!, so I guess I liked this book more in large chunks than little tastes! I really liked the first book, and am charmed by the non-conventional narrative voice in romantic fiction of Don Tillman, and glad that his friends and his exceptionalities save the day. Awww! I shall certainly read the third in the series. I'm increasingly a fan of “on the spectrum” fiction, esp. romantic fiction, and this seems a worthy addition. It's also cool to read a “married and in love and working it out” story.

The first book was way better... This one got better in the end but the first 300 pages were quite boring to read.

I didn't actually finish the book. I enjoyed reading the first book, but I couldn't get through the second book.

Alright but not as good as first in series

Me caes peor Rosie

DNF this book. I got about halfway thru and gave up. Not really any story, just a bunch of crazy situations for Don to get out of. Big disappointment!

Don Tillman is socially awkward but that does have its benefits. One of them being that he cannot be anything but honest ... at least, until he tells a lie to keep Rosie from being under stress. This book was more about Don and his struggles and friendships than about his relationship with Rosie and I think it suffers because of that. His problems making connections with people include his problem with connecting with his own baby-to-be. I enjoyed it, just didn't feel it was as good as the first one in the series.

It's harder to write a great sequel to a book than it is to write a great book. It's even harder to write a great sequel to a great book.

Graeme Simsion did that.

I read and loved The Rosie Project last year. I pushed it off on lots of my book friends.

I'm not much of a sequel girl, so it was with great trepidation that I approached The Rosie Effect this morning, the first day of the brand new year. Don't let me down, I murmured, Please don't let me down.

I'm so happy to say that The Rosie Effect did not let me down. I say this about very, very few sequels: The Rosie Effect might even be a little bit better than The Rosie Project.

You have to love Don and Rosie, with their off-putting personality quirks, and you have to love how they found each other in this crazy world.

Now, in Effect, they decide to bring a baby into the mix. Well, Rosie does, somehow thinking Don will follow. When he doesn't, it can cause all sorts of fascinating problems, knowing, as we do from the start, that this author is going to find some kind of wacky way to work everything out.

Okay, I've probably said too much, but I suggest, no, I urge you to get this fun novel and give it a read yourself. It's zany and improbable and hopeless, just like real life, and I think you just might love it as much as I do.

This quick take originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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“To the world's most perfect woman.” It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.

The Rosie Project

Last year, Graeme Simsion blew me away with The Rosie Project. Despite my qualms at the beginning, Don Tillman soon became a character who I absolutely adored. His punctuality, honesty, and over the top preparation for everything in life made him an intriguing person. I wasn't expecting to love Don. I wasn't even really expecting to like him, to be honest. Graeme Simsion's writing prowess changed all of that, and I was completely thrilled. So, when I saw The Rosie Effect pop up as a sequel? Well, I knew I'd have to read it. No question about it.

Now for those of you who might be coming in to these books new, let me tell you a little about Don. He has Asperger's, and as such is a rather complex man. He schedules everything, loves to gain new knowledge, and has a bit of a hard time with empathy and social situations. That's why I was so intrigued by the premise of The Rosie Effect. We all know that the prospect of a new baby is exciting, but stressful. I could only imagine how Don, of all people, would deal with an unexpected pregnancy. In my mind, I saw lots of intense planning! I was right. Oh yes, I was right.

I think it's only fair to mention that Rosie is rather insufferable in this particular book. I had a difficult time with her the first time around. Her feminist views, and overall demeanor in fact, were only bearable because Don was so sweet on her. I couldn't let her derail my adoration of him. This time, I almost put this book down multiple times because of Rosie's character. Her selfishness, her petty views, the way she treated Don, all of it made me want to slap her and tell her that he was too good for her anyway. As before, Don really stole the show and that helped a lot with my enjoyment of this book. I'm pretty sure my opinion of Rosie borders on abject hate at his point though.

Moving on, even Rosie wasn't enough to keep me from loving this story. Watching Don's growth from the last book to this one was wonderful and hilarious. His new groups of friends, the new problems he creates for himself, all of it was classic Don. He's a character that I can't help but like. I have to say that he just keeps on surprising me. Despite everything else, I had a lot of fun watching him navigate this new chapter in his life. Bravo, Mr. Simsion. Let's hope that if these two come back for another book, Rosie gets her act together.

3.5 stars.

3.5 stars.

If you read The Rosie Project, odds are you fell in love with Don and Rosie. This mismatched and unlikely couple made me laugh and warmed the cockles of my heart. So I was extremely excited to get an ARC of Graeme Simsion's latest instalment – The Rosie Effect.

Don and Rosie are newlyweds living in the Big Apple (that's New York if for some bizzaro reason you think this has turned in to some science fiction alternative reality thing). They seem to be happy and settling into life in America, until Rosie drops a bombshell that turns Don's safe, predictable world upside down – she is pregnant!

As you would expect, hilarity and confusion ensues as Don tries to come to terms with impending fatherhood, and the changes to his and Rosie's relationship. Don is as he has always been. It is Rosie that suddenly has the personality change.

Maybe it is because I have been pregnant, or maybe it is because I am a control freak, but I found Pregnant Rosie very different from Project Rosie. She just seems so irresponsible. I know I am probably sensitive about this subject, but she has such a careless attitude towards her baby. She continues to drink alcohol, fails to schedule important doctor's appointments, and although she seems to want the baby, she is not prepared to make any sacrifices for it.

Her attitude towards Don was also disappointing. I expected her to be more in tune with his...oddities, rather than expect him to act like an average expectant father. He is not average, and that is why we love him.

However, I am happy to report that both Rosie and the book redeemed themselves in the end. I could see things from Rosie's point of view and could forgive her, a little.

I still laughed out loud in a few places, and overall enjoyed the Don Tillman Ride.

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