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A review by chrissie_whitley
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
5.0
Such an utterly delightful book, the third installment in the series, The Rosie Result is just as engaging and endearing as ever. Simsion has impressively covered huge life-changing events over the course of these three books for a man named Don Tillman—meeting the person you are going to marry, deciding to have a baby with your partner, and raising that child into an adult—and he does it with humor, depth of feeling, head-on confrontations, and tackling larger issues at the same time. These books have so much going for them, I think they will be the next books I insist everyone in my personal life should read.
Don is now the parent of a pre-teen boy whose personality greatly resembles his own. Even without any other ingredients to this challenge, most parents can relate to that element on its own. But Don brings forth a level of literal and advanced cognitive thinking most commonly linked with Autism or other "on the spectrum" diagnoses. He's had to deal with strangers and colleagues passing out their own amateur diagnoses all his life. But once that starts to impact his son, Hudson, Rosie and Don really start to address the situation head on.
Don is such a well-written character—he's endearing without being the joke. He's complex in ways that show Simsion isn't just using this kind of a human being to give the reading audience someone to laugh at ... nor someone to simply preach about. There's a fantastic balance that comes with wonderfully solid characterization, and that's what Simsion injects into Don. He's whole and human, and he has specific challenges, but these are just the sharper-edged pieces of the same puzzle in which everyone is muddling through.
I have loved Don as a single man, a newly married husband, and as a father...he's allowed wonderful growth over the three books that is both believably realistic and incredibly true to the character. These novels are surprisingly touching, amazingly fun, and completely charming. I cannot recommend these enough. In fact, I'm off to buy copies for my household and get these books in my family's hands.
I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This affected neither my opinion of the book, nor the content of my review.
Don is now the parent of a pre-teen boy whose personality greatly resembles his own. Even without any other ingredients to this challenge, most parents can relate to that element on its own. But Don brings forth a level of literal and advanced cognitive thinking most commonly linked with Autism or other "on the spectrum" diagnoses. He's had to deal with strangers and colleagues passing out their own amateur diagnoses all his life. But once that starts to impact his son, Hudson, Rosie and Don really start to address the situation head on.
Don is such a well-written character—he's endearing without being the joke. He's complex in ways that show Simsion isn't just using this kind of a human being to give the reading audience someone to laugh at ... nor someone to simply preach about. There's a fantastic balance that comes with wonderfully solid characterization, and that's what Simsion injects into Don. He's whole and human, and he has specific challenges, but these are just the sharper-edged pieces of the same puzzle in which everyone is muddling through.
I have loved Don as a single man, a newly married husband, and as a father...he's allowed wonderful growth over the three books that is both believably realistic and incredibly true to the character. These novels are surprisingly touching, amazingly fun, and completely charming. I cannot recommend these enough. In fact, I'm off to buy copies for my household and get these books in my family's hands.
I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This affected neither my opinion of the book, nor the content of my review.