A review by emily_mh
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

4.0

I thought that this book was really quite a beautiful read. It incorporates elements of mystery and romance and seems to have the perfect conclusion, managing to tie all the loose threads together. It's as if Simsion realised that a romance novel needed something special, so he took the amusing character of Don Tillman and paired him up with the equally amusing though in an entirely different way Rosie Jarman and set them off on their quest to find love.

The book is from Don's point of view and he provides countless insight into the pointlessness of social convention and certainly taught me a thing or two about human behavior. In order to fine love, he creates The Wife Project - a questionnaire designed to filter through hundreds of woman and find him the perfect woman to marry.

Then he meets Rosie, a person who meets almost none of the criteria, but who Don cannot resist helping in her quest for her biological father.

As you read through the novel you see how their rocky and completely quirky love story plays out, the adventures they have together such as the cocktail night, the dance and in New York City and ultimately how Don Tillman is not undergoing The Wife Project - he is undergoing The Rosie Project.