Mariah Roze's Reviews > The Rosie Project

I read this book for my hometown book club.

This book is about a professor of genetics, who has Aspergers and has never been on a second date, because of his lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. However, he knows the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and creates The Wife Project. According to the survey his future wife needs to be punctual, successful and not a smoker. Then he meets Rosie Jarman, who has none of those traits. She is on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father. Don, a DNA expert is able to help her. By helping her his Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.