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There is a fine line between brilliant and crazy. I think the characters in this novel embody this.The main character shows classic symptoms of ADHD, making her very relatable to me since I do too. She’s extremely focused and detailed and exceptional on certain things- but tends to ignore or completely skip over other details, making her erratically brilliant but still very human.The plot itself seems rather cliche but has a tendency to digress into deep philosophical questions at the top of a hat. Should society be purely meritocratic? Is a system that relies on human kindness inherently unstable? In the spectrum of idealism versus cold-hearted practicality, where should we draw the line?You’ll like this story if: you hate naive, idealistic heroines with no practical ideas; you enjoy hardworking, OP characters that are erratically brilliant; and if you aren’t bothered by the fact that the male lead fell in love with a girl a lot younger than him and the original story had the antagonist be more than three years younger than the original protagonist group. (Which in some ways proves her original point that the heroine is s*upid)