Main Character: Rosie
Love Interest: Alex
Series: None
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Sometimes you have to look at life in a whole new way . . .
From the bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes a delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just can’t seem to get it right.
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.
From the gifted author of PS, I Love You comes this charming, romantic, addictively page-turning novel that will keep readers laughing and guessing until the very last page.
I’m going to shake things up around these parts for today. I started this blog to focus on my YA reviews and reviews for the chick lit books that I read. I haven’t reviewed very many chick lit titles but I’m going to review one today.
This book brought out all of the emotions inside of me. I laughed, I cried and I was frustrated all the while that I was reading this book. But through it all, I loved it.
I loved getting to know both Rosie and Alex through their life time of memories. Watching them grow up from the young children and then through their young adult and then adult lives, watching them always miss each other seriously brought on the angst. Cecelia Ahern did a wonderful job of making me connect with both Alex and Rosie. Seeing the trouble that they got into when they were younger and then seeing where both of their lives took them (in different directions) made for such a wonderfully engaging story that I just couldn’t get enough of.
I love reading stories about best friends that fall in love and this was one of those stories. I don’t even want to tell you how long it took them to finally get things right but when I closed the book, I was so freaking glad that it ended the way that it did that I smiled for a good hour or so afterward. This book really packs an emotional punch and there are lots of highs and lots of lows. There were times when I wanted to smack the heck out of both Alex and Rosie because all of the miscommunication and all of the missed opportunities literally broke my heart but Ahern picked up the pieces of my heart and went about putting it back together again and all was well when it ended.
I really, really enjoyed this book. It was one of those books that will forever be on my keepers shelf. Alex and Rosie are characters that I know will stay with me for as long as I read, they’re memorable characters that you won’t be able to stop yourself from loving. Rosie was a riot and Alex was just so freaking good that I know this is one of those books that I’ll re-read and re-read over and over again. Yeah, it was that good for me.
..and that’s your scoop!
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You know, I haven’t read any of her books and I have always heard great things about them. This one sounds really good and I am glad you enjoyed it. Awesome review 🙂
Oh, awesome review.
I always thought this book was a bit much – you know how they are meant to be but aren’t together for a huge chunk of time? – but you review made it sound more interesting than that.
This is totally up my alley, and it’s a bargain book on Amazon. I’m so getting it!
Diana
@Cindy: I’ve read a few of her books and only one of them was a DNF for me. The DNF had nothing to do with the writing or the author but my mood at the time. I’m sure I’ll pick it up again eventually and give it a go. =) This was so good, I freaking loved it. If you read it, I hope you like it just as much.
@Alex: If you read it, I hope you like it as much as I did (dude, I just wrote that in my comment to Cindy- oh well, it applies to you too! =P)