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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Such a sweet, beautiful story...like PS, I love you I think this would make a great movie as well. I felt very tied to Alex and Rosie.
It's a quick easy read due to the layout (which bothered me at first, but then I got used to it).
It's a quick easy read due to the layout (which bothered me at first, but then I got used to it).
Love, Rosie is a beautiful, bittersweet story filled with the ups and downs of many lives. It shows you how many lives can be intertwined and tangled together and how each choice (or mistake) you make can have a domino effect on your life and those around you. It's the kind of story that makes you think deeply about your own life and forces you to dare to dream.
An absolutely wonderful book that destroyed me emotionally in the best way.
An absolutely wonderful book that destroyed me emotionally in the best way.
I have never loved and hated a book this much in my entire life.
I loved it for all the little things in it, the inordinately long friend-zoned relationship, the heartfelt long letters and the cute short instant messages and the beautiful emails that together comprised the whole book.
I hated it because it was based on missed chances and it made me cry more than twice which is record breaker because I don't cry that often. I only dropped a singly tear while reading TFiOS. Seriously.
I honestly have never wanted, at this huge magnitude, to smack Alex and Rosie on the head with Love, Rosie for missing so many chances and being completely oblivious. They could have ended up together when they were twenty but no, Alex completely messed up.
And then they could have been together when they were thirty but no, stupid whatshisname had to come in between and ruin everything.
It's almost like whenever you think that they're finally going to get together just like they were meant to, something happens and they miss the chance.
But this book was so good and so, so romantic. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've read it. And the characters too, will never leave you. Especially Alex and Rosie.
The book, apart from all the negatives about missing chances, is also very positive. Rosie is such an optimistic person. It shows that most of the reality Teen Mom shows are just fake. If Rosie could build a career after getting pregnant at 18, so can every other woman. It was just so good to read how Rosie took every blow as a lesson and learnt from it and evolved. And even after all the setbacks she had to face, she finally got what she wanted.
And there is no spoiler here, because everyone expects this, Alex and Rosie get together. Finally finally finally!
I'm saying so many finalys because they decided to express their feelings toward each other after 50 freaking years. Now can you understand my exasperation with their constant missing chances?
This book should be placed at the apex of amazing love stories ever written in the past seven hundred centuries.
Oh, and just in case anyone is wondering why I gave it 4 stars and then said that it's at the apex of all love stories, well that's because it made me really frustrated. All I could do was sit and read while Alex and Rosie kept constantly messing everything up for their relationship. I so badly wanted to dive into the book and shake both of them violently so that they could get some blood in their brains and make the correct decision next time around.
All in all, the book is definitely a buy and keep and re-read. It's so good, you'll fall in love with almost all the characters and learn to forgive the ones that weren't so good in the starting.
I love it and I no that you all will love it too.
PS: It's KNOW not NO.
I loved it for all the little things in it, the inordinately long friend-zoned relationship, the heartfelt long letters and the cute short instant messages and the beautiful emails that together comprised the whole book.
I hated it because it was based on missed chances and it made me cry more than twice which is record breaker because I don't cry that often. I only dropped a singly tear while reading TFiOS. Seriously.
I honestly have never wanted, at this huge magnitude, to smack Alex and Rosie on the head with Love, Rosie for missing so many chances and being completely oblivious. They could have ended up together when they were twenty but no, Alex completely messed up.
And then they could have been together when they were thirty but no, stupid whatshisname had to come in between and ruin everything.
It's almost like whenever you think that they're finally going to get together just like they were meant to, something happens and they miss the chance.
But this book was so good and so, so romantic. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've read it. And the characters too, will never leave you. Especially Alex and Rosie.
The book, apart from all the negatives about missing chances, is also very positive. Rosie is such an optimistic person. It shows that most of the reality Teen Mom shows are just fake. If Rosie could build a career after getting pregnant at 18, so can every other woman. It was just so good to read how Rosie took every blow as a lesson and learnt from it and evolved. And even after all the setbacks she had to face, she finally got what she wanted.
And there is no spoiler here, because everyone expects this, Alex and Rosie get together. Finally finally finally!
I'm saying so many finalys because they decided to express their feelings toward each other after 50 freaking years. Now can you understand my exasperation with their constant missing chances?
This book should be placed at the apex of amazing love stories ever written in the past seven hundred centuries.
Oh, and just in case anyone is wondering why I gave it 4 stars and then said that it's at the apex of all love stories, well that's because it made me really frustrated. All I could do was sit and read while Alex and Rosie kept constantly messing everything up for their relationship. I so badly wanted to dive into the book and shake both of them violently so that they could get some blood in their brains and make the correct decision next time around.
All in all, the book is definitely a buy and keep and re-read. It's so good, you'll fall in love with almost all the characters and learn to forgive the ones that weren't so good in the starting.
I love it and I no that you all will love it too.
PS: It's KNOW not NO.
Finally! A book that I really really really loved. This book drove me to the brink of insanity, while at the same time sobered me to the reality of how fast life actually is.
I love Alex and Rosie. I can only hope I find someone as perfect for me as they are for each other- hopefully in at least half the time though.
I love Alex and Rosie. I can only hope I find someone as perfect for me as they are for each other- hopefully in at least half the time though.
Paso mucho tiempo para que Rosie se diera cuenta de lo que sentía por Alex y paso mas tiempo para que Alex tuviera el valor de confesarlo. 50 años? En serio? Porque no simplemente se lo dijeron a la cara cuando todavía tenían oportunidades de tener una familia juntos y no solo de pasar sus últimos años juntos... Esa parte me frustro y mucho, es por eso que solo le doy 4 estrellas
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
this book was tedious. all i could think about while reading was “when are we gonna get to the good part?”. i loved the beginning, alex & rosie were adorable and i couldn’t wait to see them grow and reconnect and realize they should be together. but then we see them with other people living different lives and i was so frustrated. not because they didn’t get together right away, but because we ALL knew they loved each other and yet they chose to pick messy relationships, misery, and miscommunication instead of just meeting up and saying “this is how i feel”! i understand when life gets in the way and blah blah but for THIRTY years they couldn’t have one moment where they were on the same page? and all this because of one drunken kiss when they were 18. my gosh. i strongly believe this book could have been cut in half and still have made the points it wanted to make. the worst part was not all that frustration but the fact that i had to deal with it for over 200 pages (and i didn’t even finish!). there were moments i laughed and things that were cute, but all and all i am disappointed with this one. it really seemed promising and the story had potential it just took too long & wasn’t executed well.
update: i even went and watched the movie and im sorry to say that it made me dislike the story even more lol.
update: i even went and watched the movie and im sorry to say that it made me dislike the story even more lol.
My big issue with the stylistic choice here was the lack of timestamps on well, anything until well, spoiler: . I mentioned this annoyance to my mom while reading and she said it was surely a deliberate one, which I guess I agree was probably the case, though the spoiler example makes it even messier and bizarre. I don't think that the editor should have allowed it. I think the reasoning behind it was to avoid dating the novel but I think Ahern could have managed just fine with month/day and hours without explicitly using years and the reading would have still gone smoother.
Spoiler
Rosie's mum's will
I don't think it's possible for anything more to go wrong in Rosie's life, which is so frustrating. I liked most of the characters in the book (Ruby was not a favorite, she was a bit harsh for me), but I felt like screaming at them more often than not - both Alex & Rosie could benefit from being MUCH MORE candid. Overall, it was a cute book, & I'm looking forward to the movie, but I wish the author had offered more of a reward for slogging through the constant disappointments & missed opportunities.
Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston. At 17, Rosie and Alex have just started to see each other in a more romantic light. Devastated, the two make plans for Rosie to apply to colleges in the U.S.
She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place, when on the eve of her departure, Rosie gets news that will change their lives forever: She's pregnant by a boy she'd gone out with while on the rebound from Alex.
Her dreams for college, Alex, and a glamorous career dashed, Rosie stays in Dublin to become a single mother, while Alex pursues a medical career and a new love in Boston. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel, structured as a series of clever e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, Alex and Rosie find out that fate isn't done with them yet.
An easy read although it became irritating after a while. I enjoyed the witty repartee and the idea of the letters forming the book was good albeit completely unrealistic.
She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place, when on the eve of her departure, Rosie gets news that will change their lives forever: She's pregnant by a boy she'd gone out with while on the rebound from Alex.
Her dreams for college, Alex, and a glamorous career dashed, Rosie stays in Dublin to become a single mother, while Alex pursues a medical career and a new love in Boston. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel, structured as a series of clever e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, Alex and Rosie find out that fate isn't done with them yet.
An easy read although it became irritating after a while. I enjoyed the witty repartee and the idea of the letters forming the book was good albeit completely unrealistic.