Author: Graeme Simsion
# of Pages: 344 (hardback)
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Humor
Rating: ★★★★☆
Synopsis: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. 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 because— surprise!—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 to reconcile, 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 the most.
Review: I almost always like sequels significantly less than its predecessor. However, I found this book to be equally, if not more, emotionally engaging than the first book.
Since Don is not your average guy, Rosie and Don experience some unique challenges during the period of their impending parenthood. It is STRESSFUL. I was griped to this story because I was worried about Don and Rosie and wishing that Don could just UNDERSTAND what the issues were but could only read helplessly as he dealt with each problem the only way he knew how.
Definitely not as funny to me as the first book since I was stressed almost the whole time, but since it affected me emotionally, I decided to give it the same rating as the first book.
If you enjoyed the first book, I would also recommend the sequel. In case you didn't get the notion from what I've said previously, it's a bit stressful.
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