this was so sweet, so quick and so fun. there was so much fantastic queer rep with an AuDHD trans non-binary mc and a best friend who uses neopronouns, a trans femme friend, two foster moms!!! one of whom is trans and has ADHD as well!! 

overall this book was utterly delightful, gooseberry was so sweet.

i did have some reserves with it though! such as, B and all the other children are written as younger than what they said they are and there wasn’t much of a focus on the dog training which i was expecting and kind of hoped for - i was excited to see the process of B working with this anxious dog and slowly gaining confidence and teaching new tricks but we really only got a few scenes which isn’t a bad thing, i just wished for more - especially with how short it was! the pacing was also REALLY fast, we didn’t stay in any one scene for very long

but i definitely definitely recommend this, again: it was so sweet