The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

First things first: cover art! I like the simplicity of this cover art (you, my readers know that I love when the cover art isn't to decorative) it features Don, Rosie and a stork carrying their expectant baby.

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Summary:

The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they’re about to face a new challenge.

Rosie is pregnant.

Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he’s left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie.

As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene and Claudia back together, servicing the industrial refrigeration unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball Fan save his business and staying on the right side of Lydia the social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he might lose Rosie when she needs him most.

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I actually did not like this book as much as the first one and had to force myself to read the first half before I really got into it. The begging of this book was just really dry and it was all I could do to actually finish it. However once I got past the rather dry begging the end of the book was really really good! It took my to days to finish the first half of the book, but only an hour to finish the second half. In this book Don and Rosie are married (yay!), and expecting their first baby together (YAY!). I love how Simson gives us this very unlikely couple and I love the contrast between them. Don is a bit better than he was in the last book, but he is still adorably awkward. I don't know why I didn't like the first half of the book, but for some reason it just didn't really interest me. One thing that was very interesting to me in this book is that while Don's life is falling apart literally everyone else around him is having slight marriage problems as well as other issues. I think this is what really saved this book for me because it just isn't about Don's problems it's about everyone else's as well. If you liked this first book then I recommend this one! It's a little slow in the beginning but the end makes up for it! 

Rating: 9 out of 10. Had to force myself to read the begging of this book, but the end of it was really good!

Content Rating: 4 (18+). Has a lot of language and adult romance.