Things I really enjoyed about this book are - It was clear the author wanted to show the realities of gender and sexuality, in particular when questioning your own or another persons gender or sexuality. The character names were kind of perfect and I loved the concept of the book. There was also some good representation of the experience of intrusive thoughts and how confusing they can make the experience of peopling. There was transgender rep too, although, having no experience of this I don’t know if it’s good rep or not. There’s also non binary rep that resonated somewhat. Finally, I really enjoyed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. I am a sucker for a quote heading for chapters.

Thing’s I didn’t like - I often found the flow of the story confusing and it was quite a disjointed read. Things would happen very quickly with little to no warning so it was jarring and added to the confusion. There were also a few times that a character would refer to things like I would know what they’re talking about and I didn’t. For example, “ that day was…” I didn’t know what day they were on about. I could also have liked more of the magic and definitely more explanation and world building around the magic. There was a scene where there was two people having sex and one of the people was fantasising about another person which made me really uncomfortable. It felt like I was reading disjointed short stories instead of chapters.