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tiannagripp 's review for:
The Rosie Effect
by Graeme Simsion
What a let down. The first book in this series was so funny! Genuine laughs and sweet moments. This book fell flat for me from moment one. Rosie was no longer a likeable manic pixie dream girl, but instead a manipulative whiner. How does a woman who knows her husband’s limitations with communication just turn into someone who asks him to solve their problems using his weakest skill? The storyline with the neighbor and the laundry....it felt so rushed. This leads to that and...huh? How did we get to y’all having to move out?
Don also came off like a supreme jerk in this book. The excuse of not telling Rosie about the pedophilia incident seemed so flimsy. It just seemed like a reason to create conflict when there didn’t have to be any. I get that Don has a different way of reasoning, but it read like he was purposely being an asshole. And then when all the shit hits the fan...no one cares. I find it hard to believe that everyone just looks the other way with a charge that serious. And as his wife, I can’t believe she didn’t explode on his ass.
The ending was just sooooo shmaltzy. Everyone being all It’s a Wonderful Life on Don, babies being named after Don and Rosie, everything wrapped up in a nice little package. It all just felt so rushed. I didn’t feel the heart. It was like someone was trying to convince me that there was heart, but didn’t actually show it to me. This was such a let down. I really wanted to love this book as much as I loved the first, but I wasn’t down.
Don also came off like a supreme jerk in this book. The excuse of not telling Rosie about the pedophilia incident seemed so flimsy. It just seemed like a reason to create conflict when there didn’t have to be any. I get that Don has a different way of reasoning, but it read like he was purposely being an asshole. And then when all the shit hits the fan...no one cares. I find it hard to believe that everyone just looks the other way with a charge that serious. And as his wife, I can’t believe she didn’t explode on his ass.
The ending was just sooooo shmaltzy. Everyone being all It’s a Wonderful Life on Don, babies being named after Don and Rosie, everything wrapped up in a nice little package. It all just felt so rushed. I didn’t feel the heart. It was like someone was trying to convince me that there was heart, but didn’t actually show it to me. This was such a let down. I really wanted to love this book as much as I loved the first, but I wasn’t down.