Not to start my review by talking about other stories, but for me (and I'd hazard a guess that this applies to a number of other readers on this site), one of the big reasons I'm here is because mainstream trans stories usually aren't great. Now, there are a million reasons for that, but one of the ones that always sticks with me is that those stories are either "everything's easy and works out perfectly" or "everything is hard and isn't it tragic." This story is, to me, one of the archetypes for why trans people write our own stories better. There are stakes to the story, genuine and fair worries that everything could go to hell in an instant, and things are hard. But in the face of all of that, at least as far as chapter seven, it's worth it, and the main character is happier, even with all that. 

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