Love, Rosie (by Cecelia Ahern)

A rom-com about two lifelong best friends who have deep feelings for each other, but fate intervenes. Will they ever ever ever ever be together?

The characters are charming and you definitely root for them, but the plot machinations are just ridiculous. Rosie's life is depressing, and much of the time it's her own fault. Over the course of the novel there are not one, but two accidental pregnancies -- has nobody heard of condoms? There are not one, not two, but three marriages to patently awful people. Why!?

I kept reading to make sure things turned out okay for Rosie in the end; I mostly wanted her life to stop being so unremittingly miserable. I liked it! It was sweet, I cried, etc. But it's also very flawed.