Soul Mates Are Meant To Be Together

My Review:
Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern is a good book to read. Although there isn't really much motions, as the story is written through the occasional letters, e-mail and chats on IM's, but you can definitely feel the vibe of emotions going throughout the story.

The story is for everyone to read. It is one of those best friend turned into deeper relationships. One of those soul mate novels, that makes people wish, that their love life was like it, sort of... There are also some funny things in here like, Alex's never ending spelling of NO instead of KNOW which Rosie reminds him from time to time and in which Katie had gotten the habit from him.

The thing that I liked reading about is when the word "The Silence" shows up. They both felt it but decided to ignore it, because of the usual I-don't-want-to-ruin-a-beautiful-friendship thing.

In this novel we have many antagonists, which is Alex's so called partners, yes actually there were two woman who came to his life aside from Rosie, and two from Rosie's side, although I won't consider Brian the whine as an antagonist, but he was the reason why Rosie didn't manage to get to Boston and be with Alex, because she got pregnant with him, in which he took advantage when she was too drunk to think.

But in the end Rosie and Alex came together, although their already 50 years old. Well there's a saying "Better late than never". Read it and you'll find yourself being lured by "The Silence" of their story...

Summary:
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 passing in the night, Rosie and Alex stay friends, and though years pass, the two remain firmly attached via e-mails 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 done with them quite yet.

Excerpt:
Rosie: Calm down Stephanie!
Steph: I can't! This is too bizarre! You two are like brother and sister! Alex is like my little brother! You can't have!
Rosie: STEPHANIE! WE DIDN'T!
Steph: Oh. Then what happened?
Rosie: OK I realize that this is a very silly thing for me to do and I am extremely embarrassed so don't go mental on me...
Steph: OK go on...
Rosie: Well it's really far more innocent than you think but equally embarrassing. I kissed Alex.
Steph: I knew it!!! And what happened???
Rosie: He didn't kiss me back.
Steph: Oh and do you mind that?
Rosie: The unsettling things is that yes I do.
Steph: Oh Rosie I'm so sorry... but I'm sure Alex will come around, he was probably just shocked, oh I'm he feels the same!! This is so exciting! I always knew something would happen between you two someday.
Rosie: I honestly don't know what happened to me. I've been lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling ever since I got home trying to figure out what came over me. Was it something I ate that made me feel light-headed? Was it something he said that I misunderstood? I'm trying to convince myself that it was more than just the silence of that moment that changed my heart.

At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of each other's sentences before moving on to the next. And there was laughing. Lots of laughing. Then the laughing stopped and there was this silence. This wierd comfortable silence. What the hell was it?

It was like the world stopped turning in that instant. Like everyone around us wiped out. Like everything at home was forgotten about. It was like those few minutes on this world was created just for us and all we could do was looked at each other. It was like he was seeing my face for the very first time. He looked confused but kind of amused. Exactly how I felt. Because I was sitting on the grass with my best friend Alex's face and nose and eyes and lips but they seemed different. So who was this man that was sending my heart into a frenzy? So I kissed him. I seized the moment and I kissed him.
Steph: Wow. And what did he say?
Rosie: Nothing.
Steph: Nothing?
Rosie: Nope. Absolutely nothing. He just stared at me.
Steph: So how do you know he didn't feel the same?
Rosie: Sally came bounding over. We had been waiting for her. She was all excited. Wanted to know whether Alex had told me the good news or not. He didn't seem to quite hear her the first time. So she snapped her fingers in front of our faces. Then she repeated herself. "Alex, honey, did you tell Rosie the good news?"

He just blinked so she wrapped her arms around him and she told me herself. They're getting married. So I came home.
Steph: Oh Rosie.
Rosie: What the hell was that silence?
Steph: It sounds like something I'd like. It sounded nice.
Rosie: It was.

Phil: What kind of silence?
Alex: Just a weird silence.
Phil: Yeah but what do you mean by weird?
Alex: Unusual, not normal.
Phil: Yeah but was it good or bad?
Alex: Good.
Phil: And that's bad?
Alex: Yes.
Phil: Because?
Alex: I'm engaged to Sally.
Phil: Did you ever have "the silence" with her?
Alex: We have silences...
Phil: So do Margaret and I, you don't always have to talk you know.
Alex: No this was different Phil. It wasn't just a silence, it was a... oh I don't no.
Phil: Bloody hell Alex.
Alex: I no. I'm all over the place.
Phil: OK so don't marry Sally.
Alex: But I love her.
Phil: And what about Rosie?
Alex: I'm not sure.
Phil: Well then, I don't see a problem here. If you were in love with Rosie and not sure about Sally then you'd be in trouble. Marry Sally and forget about the goddamn silence.
Alex: Once again, you've put my life into perspective Phil.