The Rosie Project

Challenge: Read a book set somewhere you always wanted to visit

I really liked the beginning of this book. I laughed a lot with Don's comments and observations and I thought it was quite interesting to read a romantic story from the man's point of view.

That being said, I had to force myself to finish it. By the time Rosie was introduced and her whole story arc was presented with the Father Project, I had lost my interest. None of the jokes seemed funny to me anymore, half of the characters annoyed me SO MUCH and the situations they got themselves into seemed silly to say the least.

Chick lit and romantic novels are always quite impossible to believe but I just could not see how this pair could actually fall in love. They had NOTHING in common; their personalities just didn't match, so much so that Don had to change his entire behavior in order for Rosie to end up with him. I think that was my biggest issue with it. The author went to great lengths to make the reader like Don and sympathize with him, just to make him change most of himself and force him to fit in.

After the first pages, I expected a lot but my expectations were not met.