The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion is nothing like The Rosie Project. So, remove that expectation and then decide if this is a book for you. Unfortunately, a twist in the story takes the book from a sweet, reflective story about relationships and to a story on sexual encounters. The twist is odd, not in keeping with Graeme Samson's other writing, unnecessary to the story, and sadly not the story for me.
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Reviewed for NetGalley
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/07/the-best-of-adam-sharp.html
Reviewed for NetGalley
27 year old Adam, English IT consultant, travels to Australia for work and meets an Australian actress, 23 year old Angelina. They have a 3 month affair. We learn their story when this book is 49 year old Adam back in England in a dying relationship with Claire who gets a text message from Angelina whom he hasn't heard from in 22 years. Can you go back and recreate a lost love? The back story of their first relationship was interesting and told in reflection to lots of old songs (they met when Adam was playing piano in a bar and she joined in with a song). But Part II of the book, present day when Adam and Angelina meet up in France with her husband Charlie, was a little far fetched and well, odd. Part I was romance and sweet reflection. Part II was odd and full of sex. I did like the ending though.
Overall a good book. BUT no where near as good as Simsion's first book, The Rosie Project, and nothing like it at all!
Overall a good book. BUT no where near as good as Simsion's first book, The Rosie Project, and nothing like it at all!
