[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

i should have liked this more; it's an unfortunate case of bad timing. you see, i read Born on a Blue Day, an actual memoir of an autistic person, 2 or 3 years ago so this fictionalized version didn't seem quite as original and interesting as it would have if i'd read these 2 books in reverse.

that said, it was enjoyable enough. i liked the connections the author made with sherlock holmes, and the presence of red herrings in his stories. it's renewed my drive/desire to push this series on fierce :)

on a side note, my neighbor's pre-teen noticed me reading the book and announced she'd read it last year and liked it and that made the curious about the choice to make this an adult fiction, as opposed to a young adult one. the content was appropriate enough, and might even have been accessible to the junior fiction crowd. i doubt a teen / pre-teen would pick up a thick memoir, but a short novel could do a great job as far as empathy goes.