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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I love the movie, so was really hopefully going into this, however I struggled with the format and the slow pace.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex." (Rosie Dunne)
Love, Rosie is told through transcripts such as letters, emails and instant messages. This unique format makes the book interesting, but it creates a wall between the characters and I and I wasn't fully drawn into the book and the characters emotions and feelings.
This book centers around two best friends, Alex and Rosie from the age of 7 to their early 50's. The plot of this story is predictable. It's a book about best friends becoming more and realizing that they have feelings for each other. I knew what the endgame of Love, Rosie was going to be, but it's the journey to the endgame and the twists and turns along the way that was supposed to keep me reading. However, the plot dragged and was extremely repetitive.
Alex and Rosie don't have easy lives and I understand that this book is supposed to be realistic, show that people don't always get what they want or what they deserve and that life doesn't end up the way you want it to, but there so many unnecessary "coincidental" obstacles that are thrown in front of Alex and Rosie. These obstacles became extremely repetitive as though the same story was being told all over again and the characters kept on making the same damn mistakes without learning from them. It got to a point where I was so bored and I forced myself to continue reading. The issues in this book could have easily been solved if Alex and Rosie just talked their feelings out and managed to communicate efficiently. Honestly, Love, Rosie had more pages than was necessary. The plot just drags on and on and is one of the most tedious things ever.
Even although there was a wall between me and Love, Rosie and I felt distant from it, it was the characters that kept me reading. The characters in this book just jumped off the page and even although that's something that's difficult to achieve when writing a book told through transcripts, Cecelia Ahern made it look easy. Rosie's such a fun main character to read about. She's sarcastic, humorous and cynical and I loved her! I also enjoyed the complete turnaround that some characters had such as Ms Casey and Brian. My favourite characters in this book are Katie and Ruby. The plot of this book lies heavily on characterization and character development so I don't want to talk too much about them in fear that I might give important things away.
Even although I have issues with this book, there are moments in Love, Rosie that are laugh-out-loud hilarious and I enjoy Ahern's writing style and her realistic characters. The concept behind Love, Rosie didn't work for me, but I would definitely love to give Ahern's other books, that have a plot that is more up-my-alley, a try.
very different from the movie and a bit too long
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The movie was better
emotional
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
RATING 3.9999 :)
A light read with a happy ending, although GOSH did it take us a while to get there! :)
This book is great and I had fun reading it between all the series I've been reading it was just what I needed.
The amount of time I wanted to smack the book upside both Rosie and Alex's head was not funny!
A light read with a happy ending, although GOSH did it take us a while to get there! :)
This book is great and I had fun reading it between all the series I've been reading it was just what I needed.
The amount of time I wanted to smack the book upside both Rosie and Alex's head was not funny!
This is one of those books that made me freeze and could do nothing but breathed when I got to the final page. It wasn't the most wonderful love story (just too many frustrating bits) or well written (found typos) but the pace was such that I couldn't stop turning the pages. Took me less than two days to finish the book. I just needed to get to the end. Universe has a way of putting one on a long, winded path to get to where you need to be.
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
*pissed off me*
It was torture. It was like looking at a cake made up of the shape of toilet seat, you know? I mean... you feel like you can eat it, but you can't cuz it's disgusting.
Yeah .... well I'm exaggerating a little bit. But still .... it could have been good read, if the 10 year gap haven't been there.
When first I was reading it's synopsis, I found reviews like..... ending is not good and blah blah blah..... and I thought. .. oh you gonna murder.. I mean make one of them (Alex or Rosie I mean) dead... yeah yeah it will make readers cry or something. ... hmmm... we'll see...
But nah.... "miss so called writer" had something way more annoying planned for me to read... "the gap"
And one more thing that I couldn't digest. ..
Toby and Katie = Alex and Rosie...
I mean seriously?
Yeah yeah I know when you're writing fiction you can imagine whatever the hell you want to imagine. . But don't you think? You could write something that feels realistic... huh?
P.S.- I think this book is a modern version of "the boy next door series of meg cabot" ( not full but the idea was a bit from that book)
*deep breath*
P.P.S.- yeah so it was quite funny book. The spelling mistakes were cute.
But you no what? that doesn't mean I'm not pissed though.
Just less pissed I guess
It was torture. It was like looking at a cake made up of the shape of toilet seat, you know? I mean... you feel like you can eat it, but you can't cuz it's disgusting.
Yeah .... well I'm exaggerating a little bit. But still .... it could have been good read, if the 10 year gap haven't been there.
When first I was reading it's synopsis, I found reviews like..... ending is not good and blah blah blah..... and I thought. .. oh you gonna murder.. I mean make one of them (Alex or Rosie I mean) dead... yeah yeah it will make readers cry or something. ... hmmm... we'll see...
But nah.... "miss so called writer" had something way more annoying planned for me to read... "the gap"
And one more thing that I couldn't digest. ..
Toby and Katie = Alex and Rosie...
I mean seriously?
Yeah yeah I know when you're writing fiction you can imagine whatever the hell you want to imagine. . But don't you think? You could write something that feels realistic... huh?
P.S.- I think this book is a modern version of "the boy next door series of meg cabot" ( not full but the idea was a bit from that book)
*deep breath*
P.P.S.- yeah so it was quite funny book. The spelling mistakes were cute.
But you no what? that doesn't mean I'm not pissed though.
Just less pissed I guess