The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

Synopsis:

Don Tillman has got his love life planned out. He knows exactly who he wants, but is it who he needs?

Love isn’t an exact science – but no one told Don Tillman.

A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don’s never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner.

Enter Rosie – ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’ – throwing Don’s safe, ordered life into chaos.

But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he’s feeling? . . .

Review:

This story is so wonderful. It is incredibly easy to read. It’s funny. It’s captivating. It’s heartwarming.

I was so invested in both Don and Rosie’s stories. It was a joy to watch their friendship bloom. The awkward encounters and their respective searched.

I love Don’s original concept. I enjoyed how it’s written from his point of view. Very relatable in many ways to me and I loved the lists and billet points throughout, really broke up the blocks of text in places.

I’ve given this a 4/5 as I’d like to have seen more from Rosie and learnt more about her. Perhaps this is what more of the second books focus is on…