Review: Murder at Locke Abbey
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
Thea is a smart woman with an idenic memory- after reading Romeo and Juliet only once, she can quote verbatim any line from the play. It is her smarts that Cole is hoping will help solve the murders that have recently taken place in his home. Cole and Thea quickly fall in over, and Thea is ecstastic that there is a man who doesn't feel threatened by her intelligence.Honestly, I thought that the relationship between Thea and Cole progressed way too rapidly.  Within two days they were declaring their love for each other and getting engaged.Some things in this novel didn't make sense.  If Thea is as smart as she seems to be, then she would have realized Cole's father was being poisoned much sooner than she did.  In a house where two murders have already been commited, wouldn't poison be the first thing you'd consider when  someone starts developing unusual symptoms? And to me it seemed pretty obvious who committed the murders.  Also, as the book went on, Thea got more and more annoying. She constantly felt the need to defend herself and her intelligence.  For instance, she got into an argument with the governess and basically told the governess she was unfit to teach because she only knew how to speak three languages whereas Thea could speak eight.  No wonder no one liked Thea.  She was often rude and pointing out individuals lack of knowledge.  She kind of reminded me of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory.  She was one of those people that are so intelligent that they lack rudimentary social skills. By the end of the book, I was fairly annoyed with her character.  I know she meant well, but I expected that by the end of the story, she would have grown a bit and learned how to deal better with others, but she didn't.  It was kind of disappointing.Overall, just an OK love story and OK mystery.