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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
4.0
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A pleasant comfort-read. I actually don't adore it, solely because I like books that make me uncomfortable, but it is objectively a really sweet piece of work. I love the utopia of Panga, this classless and moneyless society. It's obviously this gender-neutral, sex positive, communist place and it does make me wish it was true in real life. The relationship between two agender characters, one robot and one human, is just very cute. Both of them being technically nonbinary while respectively using they/them and it/its is also sweet. Many losers would say this is all hard to read and too on the nose but I don't care. This was not made for them! More casual LGBTness please, especially not the coming of age transgenderism I see often in YA novels, but simply genderqueerness as an aspect of someone's character that has a greater purpose in the story. 

:) it's feelgood!