I ended up really liking this one. I wasn't expecting to because I found Izzy to be so condescending and annoying from page one. Surprisingly, she turned out to be human and a teenager after all. Her character development is gradual, taking place over the course of a school year and is detailed greatly for the reader.
Marsh makes a great counterpoint to Izzy, providing us with the guy everyone wants to befriend, even if we don't know it yet. There's depth to him that Izzy isn't aware of at first- which is nice because Izzy seems to think that she knows everything just because she's a textbook genius.
There's a fair amount of conflict, too. Izzy's parents aren't perfect, or perfectly happy, which is a stunner to her. Her career isn't going exactly the way she expected it would, and she's not even finished being a medical intern yet. Her nemesis seems to know things she doesn't, even though she's clearly smarter than he. And Izzy just can't seem to escape Marsh, who seems to take great pleasure in letting Izzy know everything she does wrong.
At times this entire story appears to self-involved. (Yes, it's narrated in the first person which lends itself to the thought that it would be self-involved.) For someone who is so incredibly smart Izzy is outright stupid about life. No one is more surprised by her shortcomings than Izzy and it's her acceptance of them that makes her redeemable, and Third Degree a good book.
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