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.
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.
My Rating: 3/5
I went into this book not knowing anything at all about it which was just as well as had I known it was a long, drawn out romance, I never would have picked it up.
The book is told entirely from letters to and from the characters Alex and Rosie. This took me a while to get used to it as it made me feel distanced from them.
Also because of this method, I felt like I was being told what was happening throughout rather than shown.
I loved that we got to see Alex and Rosie grow up over the course of decades and see all the mistakes they make throughout the years but I felt like the book dragged on way too long.
I would have been much happier had the book wrapped up when they were in their 30's rather than whatever age they were when it did finally end.
I cannot express just how frustrated I was at how unnecessarily long this book felt. It felt like it took me an eternity to read, even though it was likely only a few days.
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