An excellent introduction to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl phenomenon for kids. Watch the quirky, plucky, feisty, vocabulary obsessed orphan genius change the lives of everyone around her, just by existing. Whoo.

Obviously, not wowed. It had a very magical world sort of feel to it, a bit of fairy tale in its oddness. They kept saying she was a genius, but except for a few offscreen things (passing tests for adults), you never felt that. Also, before her parents' deaths (which, how odd to have the diagnosis scene right before that? So this was probably all going to happen no matter what?), she sort of seemed to have OCD (ie, counting by 7s to calm herself) and perhaps be on the spectrum. Yet when her world falls apart, she doesn't continue these behaviors? They're coping techniques. Commonly found when one is trying to cope with things. Like life becoming unrecognizable. That felt odd. The whole thing felt odd. Probably closer to 2.5 stars, but I'm giving a slight benefit of the doubt because the e-ARC I read was formatted so poorly, which didn't help