Although the manic pixie dream girl is a fictional phenomenon usually found in film (see this helpful video), she is also often found frequenting the pages of the realistic YA novel.

See: Sam in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Dub in Rats Saw God, and of course, Alaska.

Some people find this particular character trope problematic, on a feminist level. Some people find ALL character tropes to be lazy on from a literary standpoint – a embrace of a certain level of stereotype, of cliche – and therefore problematic.

Some people? Embrace that crazy girl for all she’s worth.

I’m going to assume that the title is an act of publishing/marketing and not an artistic choice. It’s one thing to use  fiction to dive into problematic stereotypes or common depictions of certain minority groups. It’s quite another to name your book after said stereotype, complete with a teen-glam cover such as this.

Though… if you are asking whether I will read this book when it comes out in April 2013?

Wel… maybe.

I also just put My Teenage Dream Ended on hold at the library, so perhaps you should reconsider your evaluation of my tastes/recommendations.