Review: The Rosie Project

Geneticist Don Tillman is socially awkward and lives a very organized, methodical life.  He has his schedule and sticks to it.  He approaches finding a wife the same way and creates a sixteen page survey to weed out the women with undesirable characteristics.

When one of Don’s colleagues sends Rosie to Don so he can help her find her biological father, Don thinks she’s a candidate for his wife project.  Since she has many undesirable characteristics he quickly rules her out but still agrees to help her in her quest to find her father.  As they work together, Rosie starts to get to Don but he knows it can’t work because she’s not right for him.  Or, is she?

I’m very late to the game, but I finally read The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.  It seems that everyone (including my mother) read and loved this book a few years ago but, for some reason, I never picked it up.  Now I’m wondering what took me so long because I adored this sweet story.

Don is a nice guy but he struggles socially.  He can count his friends on one hand and most of the time he’s okay with that.  He’s thinking it’s time to get married, though, and he approaches it the only way he knows how – logically.

Rosie is a firecracker.  She’s never known who her real father is and, now that her mother is gone, she’s determined to find out who he is.  She’s a little brash, smokes, drinks, and runs late all the time so Don doesn’t think she’s a great wife candidate but maybe they can be friends.

I loved both Rosie and Don and thought the story line was great fun!  I almost hate to use this term but The Rosie Project reminded me of good, old fashioned chick lit.  It put a smile on my face and made me think about relationships as I read it.  Be sure to pick it up!

My friend Julie sent me this book.  I am an Indiebound Affiliate.