This is a good book, but my high expectations affected my opinion on it. The feelings of Dean, the protagonist, are very much well written: his experience as trans had a lot of characteristics I could relate to (not 100%, of course, since I'm nonbinary instead of a trans man like Dean, but still).
I did enjoy Dean's character development, but not everyone else's and I came to this book expecting to read something lighthearted, that does tackle important issues, but I've felt dysphoric for most part of this book: there's bully and physical violence towards trans people, there's the suicide of a trans person mentioned etc.
It was harder to read than I expected and I didn't connect with most characters besides Dean, because I related to many of his descriptions, as they were raw and emotional. It's not a bad book, but I expected it to make me feel hopeful and powerful, it made me feel miserable. I did like a lot of choices related to the plot, such as the ending, but so many parts that should've been excited just felt anticlimatic to me, because the good parts didn't made me feel as intensely as the dysphoric, violent ones that gave me panic attacks, so I didn't feel like there was a compensation for my suffering.
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