Review: Started Out With Promise, But Fell Flat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
***Warning - Possible Spoilers***I had high hopes for 'Rock Bottom' when I first started reading it.  The characters were well drawn, the local history interesting, and there seemed to be a good mystery brewing (though it took some time to get around to it).Sadly though, my patience started to wane at around the 60% mark.  It turns out the heroine, who at first glance is quite endearing, is actually pretty dumb.  From the moment she tripped getting out of the bathtub, in which she had been hiding to catch the chamber pot 'thief', subsequently knocking herself out, it went quickly downhill.  From then on the reader is subjected to irritating accounts of her constantly wearing the wrong clothing for the weather/environmental conditions, driving under the influence of codeine laced medicine, and eventually almost getting herself killed.We also learn that her museum intern is an idiot as well and that the 'mystery' we had hoped to enjoy was not a mystery at all.By the end I was tired of the disjointed and poorly organized events and really just wanted it done with. It was almost as if the author had a very different story in mind when she started, but switched gears mid stream and didn't bother to revise anything due to lack of interest.  I will definitely not be reading any more in this series because I simply have no patience for stupid protagonists.