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herndonite 's review for:
The Rosie Effect
by Graeme Simsion
It is hard to strike lightening twice and I'm afraid Graeme Simsion has come up against that challenge and failed.
"The Rosie Project" was so delightful because, in part, you were rooting for two sympathetic characters to come together.
In "The Rosie Effect" Simsion has made Rosie quite unsympathetic and while we root for Don to win her back, one starts to feel after a while "Why bother?" She has gotten pregnant without his consent and she has immediately decided that he doesn't have it what it takes to be a good father. Her reasoning seems weak and her willingness to just abandon her marriage without allowing him to try to prove himself as a father in no way endeared her to me.
Her eventual change of heart occurs far too quickly and easily leaving us with a happy but far from satisfying ending.
That said, Don is again a fascinating character and getting to see the world from his point of view is an interesting and often funny experience. Simsion also does a good job of making the previously rather one-dimensional Gene a more full-blooded character in this book.
"The Rosie Project" was so delightful because, in part, you were rooting for two sympathetic characters to come together.
In "The Rosie Effect" Simsion has made Rosie quite unsympathetic and while we root for Don to win her back, one starts to feel after a while "Why bother?" She has gotten pregnant without his consent and she has immediately decided that he doesn't have it what it takes to be a good father. Her reasoning seems weak and her willingness to just abandon her marriage without allowing him to try to prove himself as a father in no way endeared her to me.
Her eventual change of heart occurs far too quickly and easily leaving us with a happy but far from satisfying ending.
That said, Don is again a fascinating character and getting to see the world from his point of view is an interesting and often funny experience. Simsion also does a good job of making the previously rather one-dimensional Gene a more full-blooded character in this book.