Totally forgot I'd finished this. Anyway.

I keep reading reviews and seeing comments about how Flavia is such a precocious, forward girl, and while her forwardness, intelligence and quick thinking are things to admire, I could not get over the fact that she is a sociopath in the making. Does no one else see this? It was enough to divorce me from the book as a whole, and I kept reading only to find out where the mystery went.

That wasn't so great, either.