I like the way in which this portrays the main character's struggles with multiple diagnoses that would now be described as under the neurodivergence umbrella. Like the author states, I hope that people reading this book, especially neurotypical people, will be reminded to try to be less judgemental, and more understanding, because people's behavior is impacted by internal goings-on that they may be completely unaware of. I like the way in which the author focused on the sister relationship and the difficulties of late elementary/early middle grade relationships.

There are a lot of good things about this book, but I wanted more depth. The plot also requires suspension of disbelief, and I find it difficult to accept the way in which the author uses tragedy as a plot device.

This is hard to rate, because I'm sure that, like most plays and poetry, it would hit harder with a live performance. It's also hard to rate because it's unfortunately still relevant in terms of portraying the American Dream as a sham, but simultaneously dated, at least for me, because the "American Dream" has chewed up and swallowed many different families in many different ways, not just white suburban ones.

This was fine? I could do without it, but to be fair, I didn't realize that it takes place in the same universe as the School for Good and Evil books, which I haven't gotten around to reading yet.

This is action-packed and fun like a weekday morning cartoon in the 90s, but the characters weren't well-developed and I didn't love the art. The story reads more like a fable insofar as trying to teach an audience a lesson rather than a fully-fleshed story.