A review by snchard
The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans

4.0

Everything old is new again. This was such an interesting perspective on tropes, and more importantly, it's a YA story I haven't read before. At times it read a little more like a thesis than a novel, but I thought the concept of Trope Town was well executed and definitely fresh for YA. I'm not sure it would be as amusing for someone who isn't familiar with John Green's work, since there were pretty heavy allusions to Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, but I will absolutely recommend this to anyone who has some familiarity the MPDG trope. Librarians and adults who read a lot of YA might enjoy it even more than teens.