Review of "Love, Rosie"

Love, Rosie By Cecelia Ahern  

Stars: 3 

Source: Purchased 

Rosie and Alex are best friends, have been for years, they can't quite pinpoint the moment their friendship developed into something more but it did and this is their story. 

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*This is NOT a spoiler free review* 

You have been warned. 

First off you need to be EXTREMELY patient in order to read this book and not throw it across the room- multiple times. 

I thought it was going to be a sweet, romantic, love story. Instead it was irritating and slow as hell. 

If you're a Gilmore Girls fan you'll remember the conversation that Lorelei had with Sookie, about dating and not wanting to get with Luke when she's 80+ years old and only have an ending. She wants a beginning and a middle and an ending. 

Rosie and Alex had an ending. 

It was so infuriating to read a 500 page book and like most if not all of it and then have the ending slap you in the face. 

I wanted them to end up together so badly and yes in the end (the very, very, very end) they did but what's the point of having just an ending? 

Love, Rosie is told in emails, letters and notes, while that did make me fly through the book faster than I would have had it been written in story form I have to say it didn't help with my love/hate relationship towards it. 

It almost felt like each chapter was an episode guide synopsis, it had a short overview for that week or month or even year but the details were lacking and thus the feelings and emotions were subpar at the most. 

I felt no real connection with the characters, let alone what was happening to them or around them. 

I feel like this would have been an amazing book had it not been spread out over so many years. 

I specifically read this before I rented to movie and I only pray that the movie (for once) is better than the book. 

Until next time, 

Ginger 

Review of "Paper Towns"

Paper Towns By John Green 

Stars: 5 

Source: Gift 

When Margo Roth Spiegelman opens Quentin's window and climbs inside his bedroom he thinks he's dreaming. He's loved her for years and suddenly here she is. 

It doesn't take much for Margo to talk Q into going with her on various missions throughout the night, whether it's breaking into Sea World or into her ex boyfriends car Quentin is there silently cheering her on. 

But with daylight comes the realization that things won't be the same as they were the night before. Q fears that Margo won't acknowledge the previous night, that she'll simple pretend it didn't happen and continue on, business as usual. 

What Q doesn't realize is that Margo ignoring him in the halls of school won't be a problem if she isn't there to ignore him.

Days go by with no word from Margo, her parents can't find her, the police can't find her, and Q feels as though he's the only one looking for her. 

When Margo ran away before she left clues for her parents to locate her, this time she left clues for Q and he will stop at nothing to find her. 

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*This Review Includes Spoilers* 

(You've been warned!) 

I LOVED the beginning of this book, Margo and Q's night together was so much fun to read, I couldn't stop laughing, prank after prank and fish after fish, I nearly fell out of my chair. 

I instantly liked Margo's character, her fearlessness and her don't give a damn attitude. 

I thought her parents were awful for not looking for her or even caring that she had disappeared. 

Then I read more, and laughed more, and grew to love Radar and Ben (and his tiny bladder) and I grew to hate Margo. Roth. Spiegelman. 

She went from this mysterious, flamboyant, enigma to the worlds more selfish, horrible, attention seeking brat. 

I was seriously waiting at the end of the book for her to be carted off for a psych evaluation. 

For the entire three weeks she was missing she had all of these people worried sick, searching for her, following her 'clues', losing sleep, failing tests, all for what? 

I can honestly say I feel like this book would have been better without her. Or at least that version of her. I would have loved the Margo from that night to stay or at least not leave in such an awful way. 

That being said the rest of the book makes up for Margo's shortcomings ten folds. 

From the stolen eye brows to the black Santa's I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud. 

I do still recommend this book and I can't wait to see the movie. Perhaps I'll feel different after watching it play out on the big screen? 

Until next time, 

Ginger