Do I make a candy joke? Do I call this novel saltwater taffy or is that the absolute wrong side of the US?

Anyway, sweet as saltwater taffy and utterly adorable story that upends a number of familiar rules of the genre, while playing right into the other ones. 

Particularly important was the "I'm not depressed because I stayed on land, I'm depressed because my brain works a certain way", which was just...an important resolution even if not a major plot point and a really nice change from "everything is the fault of the universe".

It was cute and I liked it.