A review by drkottke
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

3.0

Something of a sophomore slump. I was enthusiastic about The Rosie Project, and liked where this was headed in the first quarter. However, more supporting characters are introduced than the story needs, leading to some narrative bloat and underdevelopment. The story takes a painful (but perhaps inevitable) direction that brings it into too-close-to-home territory for me, so close that the tidy rom-com resolution feels forced, hollow and a bit of a betrayal of the series' emotional realism. Nevertheless, there was enough that I liked about the first book intact (albeit more spread out) that I'm eager to follow these characters into the next chapters of their lives. Perhaps a volume from Rosie's point of view would make up for her less than stellar development in this one?