This has been an enjoyable read, mostly. The premise of a changeling figuring out her new identity is interesting, the cast generally comes across as people with their own affairs and priorities, and the worldbuilding is a cut above what I expect from web novels, both in terms of how human and fae affairs work as well as in how they describe magic and its dangers.

What it doesn’t do very well is conflict: every time the main character faces what might be assumed to be a serious threat, it’s immediately resolved in a way that’s disappointingly easy. Action scenes are short, not especially tense, and resolve in the heroine’s favour. The author seems to have little interest in external conflict in general: everything revolves around the heroine’s feelings, and everyone’s constantly asking her if she’s okay about this or that as though her feelings are the most important issue at hand.

Another minor flaw that occasionally took me out of the reading is the trans lens of the story. Men are entirely absent save as assholes who get rebuked or punished for the first 45 chapters, the main couples that are introduced are all LGBT, the protagonist is labeled as trans even though she was arguably never male to begin with and has to suffer none of the physical transition ordeals, and so on.

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As per usual with PurpleCatGirl's stories, I didn't know what to expect, but I knew I'd enjoy it.  What I first thought was a fun little magical coming out tale eventually turned into a fantasy political epic, and I honestly don't even know where I would draw the line between the two.  It was gradually and skillfully done enough that, by the time I realized the genre had changed, I couldn't even say it had just happened.

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