The Fizz Has Flattened Some In 'The Rosie Result'

Once you pop the cork on a bottle of champagne, the bubbly effervescence lasts only so long. That's what seems to have happened with the somewhat flat final novel in Graeme Simsion's initially sparkling Rosie trilogy, about a geekily charming geneticist whose spot on the autism spectrum is evident to everyone but him.

The trilogy began with (2013), a screwball comedy centered on Don Tillman's hilarious campaign to find a wife — a process in which he learned firsthand (2014) found Don and Rosie ten months into marriage, living in New York and expecting a child. Simsion wraps up the series with which is largely focused on Don's latest campaign — to spare his brilliant but awkward 11-year-old son Hudson the unhappiness he experienced growing up.