Book Review // The Rosie Project

Rating: 3/5

Review: 

Liked it okay, but definitely didn’t love it. I found it extremely difficult to read Don’s perspective! Maybe my eyes were tired, who knows, but it wasn’t the easy skimming book I assumed it would be. ⁣

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I will say though, I LOVED Don. I loved his hilarious stories like The Jacket Situation and the various questions regarding his potential wife. By the end, I was very much invested in Don’s character. ⁣

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BUT- Rosie. She didn’t do anything for me. It might have helped to have a switching POV chapter for chapter to get more of who Rosie was, but oof, she was a challenge for me.

Synopsis:
"The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. 

Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you." (Amazon.com)