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Where Rainbows End

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Just in case you were looking for a new Cecelia Ahern book, please don't make the same mistake I made. I think this is a Europen release of "Rosie Dunne". And I also understand that it's also going by the name "Love, Rosie" ......... but it's still one of my most favorite books ever! I love this author and this book rocks by any name. I give it 10 starz!
JMHO //(*_*)\\

THIS BOOK IS THE SAME AS ROSSIE DUNNE AND LOVE, ROSIE!!! They need to stop publishing this book under different names- it's annoying!

I bought this book at the Edinburgh Airport and started to read it on the planeride back home. I couldn't put it down. Absolutely fantastic and original read, comprised of letters, emails, IMs, all the ways of communicating without being face-to-face.

I don't think I've ever laughed so much while reading a book, or felt so much for two characters and how separated their love is. You watch as Rosie and Alex grow up, and meet new people and have children and become different things, the entire book leading up to an ending you, as the reader can predict, but in a nice way. It's really heart-warming and excellent, although this kind of love is frustrating because you just want them to get together already! :) A very excellent read, especially when you want some entertainment on a very long, very boring planeride.

Even though all cecelia's books are my favorite, my heart probably went out to this book the most. Its a great book, no doubt and she took the liberty of penning the story in such a way that it is portrayed in letters, emails, etc.
I felt really sad throughout, despite the humor and all. It was relief, to disappointment, to humor, and back to disappointment again. So much hints, so many second chances and all thrown away. This book remain the most realistic to our lives, in my opinion.
A story about two best friends who grew up together, not realising that they were meant for each other all because of a chance that was missed and words left unspoken. They see each other through jobs, marriage, heartbreaks, and alot more. Until when they're finally at their retiring age, do they realise that they do love one another more than anything else in the world.
It saddens me when I comtemplate about the time wasted, and all the words that were dragged on.
'Where Rainbows End' is TRULY an endearing tale.
If you're the emotional sort, read it and you won't be disappointed.

Hi

I really enjoyed this book but I don't understand the time frame thing. I am nearly 40 and when I was in primary school there was no instant messaging or emails. At the end of the novel Rosie was 50 so surely email didn't exist in the 70s? I am wondering if Cecilia Ahern is so young she didn't envisage a life without email. Was I too old to have read this book????

I have tried to read as many reviews about the book and no-one mentions this. Perhaps the target audience is younger than me- I can remember a time when we didn't have computers and the only options were letters and phones (born in 1970). Is anyone with me on this? Would welcome anyone's comments.

Cinds

It was a wonderful book with one of a kind form of writing. COmpulsively readable. Will have no regrets of reading it.

This book was great! I laughed, I cried, I couldn't put it down. This is the first book I've read by Cecelia Ahern and I will be reading more.

I am 52 yrs old and I still relisten to this audio.(about 12 times so far) Its so easy to follow while in the car travelling because anyone who sits in the car can pick up the thread of the story without me having to go back to the beginning.

I felt relief to disappointment, laughter to sadness. The story carried me along so easily. I could really relate to Rosie Dunn. What a woman.

Defintely one of my favourites.

This is one of the most original books I have read in a long time. It's seems completely fictional, but it consists of nothing but notes passed in school, emails, instant messages, text messages, and the good old fashioned way, letters. It also spans over 40 years just in one book. Of course, only the important events occur, years sometimes passing in the turn of a couple of pages.

There's no particular no time period in this, as instant messaging is included quite early on in the book, and for it to span over 40 years, there's no specific year the book starts and ends. It can be quite confusing that way, but don't let your mind dwell on it.

The book is about Rosie & Alex, who start off as best friends at school, and over the years, they encounter all the important events together: first loves, first jobs, pregnancy, marriage (to the wrong people at that), divorce, loss of jobs, reappearance of old girlfriends/boyfriends - basically everything you dread to happen in your life. Throughout all this, they argue, talk to others about what they can't tell each other, marry others ... The list goes on. They want to be together, but there's always some kind of obstacle.

At first the book can be severely hard to get into, considering there's nothing but emails etc. But I've now read this book more than once (it must be 4 or 5 times now), and I still find it exciting!

I identified a lot with this book, cos I'm a terrible hoarder, not only of material things, but stuff like emails & texts too. I have saved any email that ever meant anything to me, and the same goes for texts. I've saved some IM chats with my friends (which are somewhere), but I'm terrified about ever losing all my emails. They tell a story. They're nice to look back over every so often.

I love "P.S I Love You" too, but "If You Could See Me Now" was confusing and disappointing, and I still haven't managed to read more than halfway through the book. I haven't even managed to GET halfway. I hope her next book follows on from "P.S. I Love You" and "Where Rainbows End", cos then it'll be great.

This book is fabulous! It's my favourite novel lately and I can just recommend this book to everybody liking humour as well as heartshattering stories...

Well, why this book is one of my favourites:
Alex Steward and his best friend Rosie are growing up together. Their connection is strong enough to stay years and years of pain, luck and the most irritating thing... fate. When he moves to Boston one year before graduating at High school,Rosie can be hardly happy. When Alex is supposed to come over for the debs ball, something keeps him at home. But that night should change Rosie's life. The hotel - fanatic girl planned to move over to Alex in Boston, where the two of them wanted to study. Instead Rosie becomes pregnant and nine month later little Katie is born.
What I can report now is - without telling the whole story - is that Alex is getting married twice and Rosie once. And though, through all those years they loved each other with all their heart. They just had a bad timing.
At the end a small surprise waits for the reader, a surprise that perhaps nobody would have expected and I do not mean the final love meeting between Alex and Rosie, but find out yourself and feel the joy of being taken onto a rollercoaster of emotion.

Don't be surprised, the book includes a lot of emails,letters, etc...

Have loads of fun with WHERE RAINBOWS END!!!