Ahh, hmmm. This was an odd one. It has some charming properties I enjoyed, but at one point a character describes their writing process as “you begin and you keep writing” and that feels like this author’s process too. There’s also a lot of “male author writing female character”… that is to say, you hear constantly about the main character’s nipples and ovaries for some reason. 

<spoiler> There’s also, well, the final twist is that the brilliant child prodigy that everyone stole their ideas from was “actually” autistic and couldn’t write or speak intelligibly. Just a lot of… whew. I just wasn’t ready to be broadsided by the ableism. </spoiler>