Love, Rosie Movie Review

Love, Rosie
Release Date: October 22, 2014 (UK)
Starring: Lily Collins & Sam Clafin
Directed by: Christen Ditter
Screenplay by: Juliette Towhidi
Based on the novel 'Where Rainbows End' by  Cecelia Ahern

 Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn't possibly be right for one another...or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies.








I have a written & video review based on the book which you can check out here. 





I honestly read the book because the movie was coming out. I think I would have read it eventually but the movie release amped it up a bit for me!

I go into book to movie adaptions honestly not expecting alot. I have been let down many time ( Beautiful Creatures, City of Bones, and more) so I just go into them not expecting anything especially with contemporary or chick lit book to movie adapations.

With Love, Rosie I knew from the get go the movie would be much different from the book. If you've read the book you know the whole book is told in email, letter and IM format so we never really get a full face to face conversation. Obviously the movie would have to have face to face convo and I was ok with that. It would be really hard to make a movie without real life interaction.

Overall I loved the movie. I thought it was a decent book to movie adapation. It changed a ton of stuff which was to be expected but there were some changes I didn't like. One of my favorite things about the book is both Rosie & Alex's relationships with their siblings. In the movie, Alex had a sister not a brother and Rosie had 2 younger brothers and not an older sister. I wish they wouldn't have changed that.

Also in the movie Alex didn't have any children, in the book he had 2. In the book Rosie married someone other than her daughter's father. So there were a ton of changes. Some of them I was ok with, some of them not.

The movie isn't really a good book to movie adaptation and I didn't expect it to be. I'm generally really easy going with contemporary book to movie adaptations because I feel the story is harder to tell then books such as The Hunger Games.

I think if I would have seen the movie without having read the book I would be head over heels in love with it. It's a cute indie film with good actors and it was funny.

Overall, I would give it:

1/2

I really liked it honestly but it just didn't fit the bill entirely as a book to movie adaptation.
What did you guys think?

Love,Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
Published: 2004 by Hachette Books
Genre: Adult, Chick Lit
Pages: 448
More: Buy The Book - Goodreads

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 of several missed opportunities, Rosie and Alex learn that fate isn't quite done with them yet.

In the chick lit world, Ahern's name is one of the top. I've never read one of her books before & when I saw the trailer for the movie based on this book I knew I had to read it! I know P.S I Love You was also made into a movie which I watched and literally cried my eyes out during the whole movie!

I really enjoyed this book. Alex and Rosie are both very likable characters who just can't seem to get it right it seems! Once you begin the book you can clearly see how meant to be they are for one other, I mean it's so obvious!

What I really liked about this book is that it's all told in letter, email and IM format. I haven't read to many books like that so it was very interesting! 

Rosie is a great character. She is steadfast, stubborn and driven much like myself I might say. Alex is reliable and such a good friend! And have I mentioned how meant to be they are for one another?

This book takes place over many, many years! The book begins I believe when Alex and Rosie first become best friends, which I think is around age 7 and follows their lifes until the age of 50. Talk about alot to cover!

Throughout the course of Alex and Rosie's live they constantly fail at telling each other their true feelings. Either something or someone gets in the way or time just escapes them. I loved all the supporting characters in the novel from Rosie's family to her other best friend, Ruby.

As much as I adore this book I knocked a star off of it because I thought it was just insane that Rosie and Alex couldn't just fess up on how they felt. Years and years pass by for them with all these feelings bubbling inside and they just can't come out and say it! So frustrating!

Other than that this is an adorable book! Full of laughs, life lessons and of course love.

I won't spoil the ending on whether Alex & Rosie and if they ever get it right, you'll just have to read for yourself!

I can't wait to see the movie in a couple weeks and review it for you guys!

Favorite Quotes from the book:

“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?” 

" I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.”