The rating reflects my own enjoyment of the book, not it's literary quality. I always find it awkward to judge someone's autobiography, because it really isn't my place to decide what story they want to tell.

I will say that the narrator comes off as slightly sanitized on one hand, and on the other Styles is very liberal with using her deadname, which is of course her prerogative, but night be jarring and triggering to some readers.

All in all, it's a good book if you are totally unfamiliar with the experience of trans people, but it should definitely be read in conjunction with other memoirs from BIPOC trans authors.