Quirky story of an intelligent professor on the spectrum who sets out with very strict guidelines to find love and a mate. Very well written. I could hear it in the voice of an adult SHELDON COOPER. ( )

The perfect book for a cross country flight...because you won't want to put it down. As I was reading I kept a mental list of which of my friends would like it, and the list only grew as I read further. Adorable! ( )

“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”

Don Tillman, is a handsome, thirty-nine-year-old university genetics lecturer and is on the autistic spectrum. Don has only two friends and lacks the ability to read people’s emotions, meaning that he is often awkward in social situations. He is single and never had a second date. To correct this fault in his life he devises a scientific test to find the perfect partner which he refers to as the 'Wife Project'. He creates a questionnaire which he distributes at dating meets and sites to await for the right match to reply. Simple!

Enter Rosie -" the world's most incompatible woman" - a psychology graduate, vegetarian smoker and bartender, who captures Don's attention and throws his safe, ordered life into chaos. Just what is this alien emotion that he's feeling?

This book is a well written and unique POV tale with an unlikely lead character, the pace was good, building up to a if not an unexpected ending but still a delightful one .Whilst 'The Rosie Project' didn't actually make me laugh-out-loud, there are some genuinely cringe-worthy moments caused by Don’s inability to read sarcasm that did make me smile. He takes things way too literally and although you feel awkward for him, at the same time you can’t help but feel for him.

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

Personally I would have liked to have found out a bit more about Rosie as we don’t really get an opportunity have an insight into her thought process but hopefully that this will be corrected in the remainder of the series. Romance isn't a genre that I would normally pick up but this relatively quick read was very enjoyable all the same. ( )

I loved this book. I loved Don Tillman, despite the fact that he's sure that the way to meet the perfect wife is to find the woman who answers his detailed questionnaire to his satisfaction.

Enter Rosie. She probably would score about 0% on this questionnaire. She's impulsive and chaotic where Don is organised and predictable. This is their story. This book is clever, funny, poignant, endearing and original. Read it. ( )

Critiques that find use of a sort of autistic caricarure in the main role explotative feel relevant in part, but the author does show great skill at weaving a love story around a particular conscious state. The perspective, however incomplete and
simplified of a character that is unable to understand enotion and how he discovers the factors that express love is interesting and revealing of many stereotypes we adopt.

Ultimately an entertaining story plotted around a different type of consciousness, which is a bit too kuch of a fairy tale and can be insensitive to situations where people are living with actual medical conditions that are similar.

I feel despite everything it is a worthwhile read.

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