Escaping From Houdini

Things I liked in this book:
- The additional love interest element.
- The setting of the book on an old fashioned cruise liner.
- I still absolutely love Thomas and his character.

Now for the things I didn't like.
- I'm honestly getting kind of annoyed at Audrey Rose's character. She seems to be blundering through all the time without thinking things through. (even though she's supposed to be this rational and intelligent character)
- Her constant crying about wanting her independence, and making decisions to feel more in control of her life even when its not the wisest choice.
- Some of the situations in the book that seem unnecessary for the main plot. Like the whole situation where she's is training in the carnival. How did that play into anything else that happened later on in the book? Did she use her new slight of hand training for anything? No. Did she vault down into the room using her newly found skill in trapeze to save the day? Not even close. What was the whole point of including those situations in the book besides just using them as space fillers?
- I hate seeing relationships where the guy is super understanding, giving, and does everything for the female main character and the female continues to blunder about doing whatever she wants without providing the same level of commitment and consideration to a relationship. Thats how Audrey Rose and Thomas's relationship feel like to me.

Overall I feel like at this point, I'm just forcing myself to finish the series because I already have the 4th book.