I appreciated the duality of a mother wanting to be more open to her son but struggling because of trauma, and the son wanting to open up about being gay to his mother but struggling because of the fear of her not understanding. And seeing that through each other reading stories to the other was really sweet.
However I found myself a little disappointed. There was a large amount of fairytale telling and very little actual story... Which probably meant to be lyrical but ended up being just nonsense on regards to the main story I wanted to read (the mother-son duality)