I would have loved this ten years ago. A wise cracking kid uses her reasoning, nerve, and historical chemistry acumen to brazen out the answer to a murder mystery. She's a wise cracking delight. I just feel like real life chemistry grad school has deflated me a bit for this sort of thing. It took longer than it should have to read and felt nostalgic rather than adventurous. There's also a character or two with PTSD and while it wasn't bad represenation really, it took dark cackling to more of a dark sad place. Most of the problems are likely specific to me though.

3.5 round up