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lita_ak 's review for:
The Rosie Result
by Graeme Simsion
I was putting off reading Graeme Simsion's third Don Tillman book for quite a while. I remember enjoying The Rosie Project quite a bit, but the second book - The Rosie Effect - wasn't my cup of tea. So I didn't know what to expect from the third one. The one thing I didn't expect was to be quite bored. The story happens more than a decade after the second book, and Don is facing some interesting challenges as a father. His son, of course, is quite similar to him in his behavior and experiences with friends or at school. So Don sets out to make things better for him to avoid repeating the pattern of his own childhood. The main storyline or message is, however, structured around autism or people on the spectrum. And somewhere in the background, Rosie is battling her own challenges as a mother in academia, trying to juggle her career and family life. Overall, the book speaks about important issues, but I wanted to be entertained. And that is the one thing this book does not deliver. This time around, it's already quite predictable, and I don't think I even chuckled once. It was just more of the same typical Don.