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    Love, Rosie

    Written by Cecelia Ahern

    Narrated by Amy Creighton

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The basis for the motion picture starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin!

    What happens when two people who are meant to be together can't seem to get it right?

    Rosie and Alex are destined for each other, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, they are separated as teenagers when Alex and his family relocate from Dublin to Boston.

    Like two ships always passing in the night, Rosie and Alex stay friends, and though years pass, the two remain firmly attached via emails and letters. Heartbroken, they learn to live without each other. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel o f several missed opportunities, Rosie and Alex learn that fate isn't quite done with them yet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJan 6, 2015
    ISBN9781478904700
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    Love, Rosie
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    Cecelia Ahern

    Cecelia Ahern is the author of the international bestsellers PS, I Love You; Love, Rosie; If You Could See Me Now; There's No Place Like Here; Thanks for the Memories; The Gift; The Book of Tomorrow; and The Time of My Life. Her books are published in forty-six countries and have collectively sold more than sixteen million copies. The daughter of the former prime minister of Ireland, she lives in Dublin.

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    • 5/5
      In a message and letter type setting, this book is fantastic. You fall for both characters as you meet an decide the one who got away but neither of them wanted. After a night that got outta hand and that changed the girls life forever, you follow them both through the good and bad times. Never giving up even at the end. Would highly recommend to all chick flick romantic lovers.
    • 3/5
      Read reviews of this before I picked it up, and wasn't disappointed. As a hopeless romantic, this was just right up my alley. As always, the book covers more than the movie, so I really recommend YA (or anyone, really) to pick it up. It's heartwarming.
    • 4/5
      I watched this movie today and thought I know this story! I'd read it years ago.Before the dawn of Librarything-ing, at the start of melting into my contemporary fiction, Sappy Nicholas Sparks Phase, I read this sweet book called Where Rainbows End, loaned the book, and forgot the title. Now I recall I picked it up after reading PS I Love You by the same author. I grabbed up Ms Ahern's books and ate them like candy.Today, I connected; this is the same story! But now I see actors faces where my imagination made characters. Not a bad thing, just made me reread the book in a different light. Like candy, I did.I admit, I still like the book better, by any name. Its the timeless story of best friends falling in love with all that life throws at them. Will they? Wont they? Will he/she be the one that got away? Go read and find out for yourself.
    • 4/5
      For chick lit, I thought this was quite good. Parts of it were laugh-out-loud funny. The letter/e-mail/instant message style did get tiresome, occasionally, but the well-drawn characters and snappy dialogue made up for it.
    • 3/5
      Written solely in the form of correspondences (letters, emails, online chats) Love, Rosie tells the story of Rosie and Alex over the span of 45 years. At first, I was unsure if I'd like this format, but I ended up thinking it worked really well. It allows you to get a glimpse of not only Rosie's and Alex's life/thoughts, but also those of their family and friends.

      Alex and Rosie meet as young children and quickly become best friends. Their feelings for each other grow over the years, yet they never seem to leave the platonic stage of their relationship. At times I found this frustrating and wanted to yell at the characters "Just tell each other how you feel already!" So much heartache and insecurities could have been avoided if they had. The struggles they endured, the loss and the happy times, all felt very real and made the characters feel real too.

      Perhaps the only complaint I have is that I felt the story dragged on. There were some conversations I found pointless or long winded. The journey could have been just as authentic and more impactful with less.
    • 2/5
      Quite a few years ago I had read P.S. I Love You so I was very excited to find this title on NetGalley! My excitement ended there. The book is written as a series of letters and e-mails. I was hoping it was just going to be that first chapter. It was cute reading the letters written by young Rosie and Alex. But when that format continued throughout the entire book... No thanks. I found that it made it impossible for me to connect to either of the main characters and I found myself skimming more than I would like to admit. Unfortunately it was enough of an annoyance to me that I decided to not finish the book. It made me kind of sad because based on the plot summary this was a book I should have loved! But I just could not get passed the way the book was written. I guess I'll have to see the movie to find out what happens. I'll give it 2 stars rather than 1 because I really do think I would have loved this story if the writing style hadn't gotten in the way.
    • 3/5
      A cute, fun read. Nothing spectacular, but I enjoyed it. The constant non-alignment of the stars for Alex and Rosie was really frustrating, but I did like the format. It was interesting getting a full story through letters, e-mails, and instant messages between characters. You were still able to get to know the characters (Rosie in particular), but at the same time there was a distance between them. I can't say I loved the very end when the perspective switched after the last letter, but the book was a fun, easy read.
    • 3/5
      I had to return this book to the library after I'd only read the first few chapters but I can see I would enjoy finishing it. A book in letters between out romantic protagonists that starts from childhood birthday invitations and misunderstandings through teens years. I look forward to coming back to this.
    • 3/5
      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. Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Book Depository----------------------------------------*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
    • 4/5
      Love, Rosie is formatted in letters, emails and postcards written back and forth between Rosie and her family and friends. The story cover Rosie's life from age 5 to 50 and touches on so many vital life experiences. Rosie has many ups and downs and her friend Alex is always there for her. This is not the typical romantic comedy but I did really enjoy it. It got frustrating at times because the characters would make silly mistakes but such is life!
    • 5/5
      Not sure how I found this book, but WOW. A great concept - the story is told in letters, emails, texts and instant messages among the various characters. This is a wonderful read, highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      I liked this book a lot, but hated the ending, which is why it gets only three stars. I mean, C'mon! There were about ten years of seperation there that I would've just erased, they were meaningless... Still, a good read.
    • 4/5
      A poignant and heartbreaking tale of two childhood friends who should be together but life keeps conspiring to keep them apart. Rosie and Alex's story is told through letters, emails, texts, instant messages, and greeting cards. My only complaint is how Alex and Katie both write "no" instead of "know" and "new" instead of "knew". This is supposed to be cute, but I just found it irritating. Otherwise a very sweet story, that despite being nearly 500 pages, I read in two evenings. Could not put it down!
    • 5/5
      I really loved this novel. This follows the life of two friends through their correspondence. It tells of friendship, trust, first loves and missed opportunities. I thought it was well written and at times extremely frustrating. It is definitely a love/hate relationship when you want to yell at the characters to stop missing each other by centimeters and screwing up their chances. It makes it so hard to read, but the meaning so much more important to you. One of my favorites.
    • 3/5
      I read this all in one night. All 500 pages. I laughed, I cried, and I laughed and cried some more. But in the end, I just felt sad. I'm not sure what made me sad about it, but even though all of my questions were answered and everything was tied up in the end, I just felt weird about it. That's not to say I wouldn't read it again and I didn't highly enjoy the book, but something about it made me more sad than happy.

      I also found myself getting more emotional about little things in the book than big things. I'm not sure why, but that's just what happened.
    • 4/5
      Also published as LOVE, ROSIE. Good solid read in an unusual format. I enjoyed the banter between Rosie and Alex. Would recommend as a first choice intro to this author.
    • 3/5
      Childhood best friends Rosie and Alex are very close but when they are aged 17 Alex and his family move from Dublin to Boston, devastating both of them. Rosie applies to colleges in the U.S. and is accepted into Boston University whilst Alex gets into Harvard. Alex doesn't make it back to Ireland to partner Rosie to her graduation, so she goes with someone else. Life takes a dramatic turn when she finds out that she is pregnant to that someone else and her plans for college are shattered. Both their lives take different paths filled with twists and turns and missed opportunities to be together. The letters, emails, instant messages, and newspaper articles that comprise the story are good but wearing a bit thin by about two thirds of the way through the book.
    • 4/5
      I really like this book, and that says a lot for someone who is not into chick lit. The entire story unfolds in the form of emails and letters spanning more than four decades. It is a story of friendship, heartbreak, facing life's challenges, picking oneself up and moving on, and most importantly of love -- love of family and friends, and of finding one's soulmate. I really like this story (I know I said that already) for making me laugh and because I've always had something for the magic of Ireland (where the story is set).
    • 4/5
      Very interestingly written. This book is written through notes, letters, emails and IMs and its about a best friendship between Rosie and her best friend growing up. Slightly predictable but a nice beach read
    • 5/5
      I bought this book because my girl friend kept telling me it is a must! So I bought it. When I saw it was written in letters, I closed it and didn't look at it for like 2 years. One day I felt very down and it looked so pink so I read it and without knowing how, I was in the middle rooting for Alex and Rosie to please be together!! *Spoilers* Though the ending is upsetting to me, they waited forever to be together but it was a happy one too, I loved this book because it was so real and touchingly human and I laughed for days about her stupid husband being beaten by the guys Rosie drunkenly spoke to at the bar!! I guess this is my favorite part in the book. And of course I loved Ruby!! Great Pal. When I was finally done, I thanked my friend for recommending this book, I just loved it!!

      From the parts that made me laugh, this one was the best... you know when Rosie is depressed and she enters this shady bar and meet two criminal looking guys (they turn out to be criminals alright) and she tells them about her asshole ex-husband. When she discovers what happens to him, I just can't stop laughing!
    • 3/5
      I have mixed feelings about this book. I love the story, but at times I was just mad at why it was dragging. It is a wonderful love story, but I felt that towards the end it was just taking way to long. It could be me though. I plan on reading this book again later. Sometimes a second or third read can change a mind about a book.
    • 5/5
      In a message and letter type setting, this book is fantastic. You fall for both characters as you meet an decide the one who got away but neither of them wanted. After a night that got outta hand and that changed the girls life forever, you follow them both through the good and bad times. Never giving up even at the end. Would highly recommend to all chick flick romantic lovers.
    • 5/5
      I can't rate this book. it's just impossible. At times I loved it so much, at others I hated it and wanted to just put it down but I couldn't. I have so many mixed feelings about it. I spent two days agonizing, feeling the love, the hurt, the wait ... It was such a journey. It certainly is one of the greatest yet saddest love story I've ever read. I'm just glad it had a happy ending or else I'll be looking for a shrink.


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      Two months later, I'm here to rate it :) Five stars of course !!



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      I just watched the movie, and all the feelings rushed through me. I'm a mess again

    • 5/5
      Das besondere an diesem Roman ist die Kompostion des Geschriebenen. Kein Fließtext beschreibt die witzige, bewegende, tiefsinnige und romantisch-turbulente Beziehung zwischen den Kindheitsfreunden Rosie und Alex. Sondern Briefe, E-Mails, Postkarten, SMS und ähnliche Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation geben einen lebensnahen und persönlichen Einblick in diese, an Königskinder erinnernde, Romanze. Der Schluss dieses Romanes ist mein persönliches Highlight: Kein Name fällt und doch weiß der Leser/in, dass wahre Liebe kein Verfallsdatum hat.Cecelia Ahern ist mit ihrem zweiten Roman eine Mischung zwischen Realität und romantischer Wunschvorstellung gelungen.
    • 3/5
      This is an okay book. I must admit it is one of the few books where the movie is actually better than the book it was based on. The book just seemed to drag on after a while.
    • 2/5
      We are introduced to Alex and Rosie through the notes they pass back and forth in grade school. Alex and Rosie are best friends. As they grow, so does their means of communication. They progress from notes, to letters through to emails and IM’s and then surprisingly back to letters again. As close as they are and as much as they believe that they share everything … they don’t. It’s that one thing they do not share that causes all the problems.

      This book is written and read using various means of written communication. At the beginning of the book I thought it was a really cute idea, imaging little ones writing notes in school (complete with the spelling mistakes little ones make), folding them up in some secret way and passing them to each other under their desks. Then when we progressed to letters and emails I began to wonder if these people had telephones they could pick up to actually speak to each other. By the middle of the book I was frustrated that I was getting all the news about their lives second hand. By the end of the book, which was predictable from page one, I was beyond frustrated (and angry that Alex stubbornly refused to spell “know” correctly).

      This was a cute story, with some shining moments – I loved Rosie’s friend Ruth – but I was relieved when I turned the last page.

      I do have to give kudos to Ms. Ahren who, at only 23, has had two of her books optioned for movies. “P.S. I Love You” was quite successful but I am curious to see how this story, told through correspondence, will be handled by Hollywood. I’ll likely skip the movie itself, but I am curious.
    • 4/5
      A light, poignant story about two childhood friends with the worst timing. And even though it takes them years to get there, they find each other in the end ♡This is written in letter format - which I normally dislike, but Ahern made it work.
    • 4/5
      An epistolary novel (including emails) with the time-honored plot of a guy and a girl who are "just good friends" or are they? Well-written and enjoyable, partly because of the Irish setting.
    • 4/5
      I think I have said quite a bit about this book on here already. I will start off by saying, the more I read from Ahern, the more I enjoy. I like the type of humor she infuses her books with (maybe it's because she is Irish?). They are light, easy to read, and move quickly. There was no exception with this book. The whole thing is written with different types of correspondence. Yes, this has been done before, but this felt different as it amalgamated letters, emails, postcards, instant messages, and even birthday cards. Yet the story still felt rich and full. I loved both Rosie and Alex. Sometimes wanted to give them a head-smack because of their choices, but that was only because I knew more then either of them did. From their point of view, it was the right choice, so I never felt frustrated. I felt like I even got to know their families. It kind of amazes me how much I DID get to know about their lives from only reading their correspondence. Looking back though, I realize that I don't know much about the setting (either Boston or Dublin). Was it the authors choice to be vague, or was it just not the best way to convey this? Or maybe it is not strong in my memory. (It was almost a month ago I read this). Maybe those details have just faded. The theme of unrequited love is not a new one, but I like the twist she put on this, being a long distance love, and being unrequited by different main characters at different times. The book takes place over a large chunk of their lifetimes. It doesn't start at the beginning (I believe they are 7) and neither die, but I believe they are in their 50's. I wonder if ones perception of this book would be different if you read it as a 10 year old, 30 year old, 50 year old. Last but not least, I enjoyed the 'echo' feeling of this book. Many thing that happen once, are echoed further along in the book. It gives a nice continuity, and a new perspective. Some with the same results, some with a 'path not taken' feel. As I said earlier, I really like this author, and will definitely be reading more of her works. In fact, writing this review makes me want to go track one down now. =D
    • 4/5
      Thoroughly enjoyed this as a first time reader of Ahern. Was sucked in from the first page and although I found it lost its way a little in the middle still enjoyed it immensely.