I'm always torn about books like this because while it does have important representation (and ends on a note of hope), it's unclear who the target audience is for this book. Partly because there is a lot of transphobia presented, but there's also descriptions of self harm and suicide that could be particularly triggering. Not to say these things shouldn't exist in YA, it just makes me wonder who this book was written for.

Kinkade does take quite an emotional journey in this book, helped partly along by his dad who is accepting of him. But at the beginning, he has a lot of notions about being a man that feed into the toxic masculinity trope. He learns differently by the end, but it does make him seem like kind of a jerk for a portion of the book.

I am glad this book exists, but I'm not sure who I would necessarily recommend it to.