![]() ![]() ![]() It hits so many notes at once in a very lovely way, and feels very firmly written for trans &/or non-binary readers. I was breathless and verklempt reading A Boy Called Cin. It shaped the book, on a really deep level. Part of that was because there wasn’t a cis love interest. I fell so hard for this book because it felt like it held my experience more closely than any other trans romance I’d read, that it was written for me as a non-binary trans reader. I needed this book this week, and I’m glad to have been able to hold it close. I mentioned picking it up again, and a trans friend called it “the ultimate trans comfort read.” I think he’s right, at least for me. I picked it up at the end of a really rough gender day, and have been slowly sipping it over the course of several days, as a way of holding it close as a comfort read. I just finished rereading this book for the third time, about 18 months after my first read. Cis gaze is only in the book as far as the non-binary character has internalized it, and that’s gently and firmly challenged by the trans love interest. This is a seriously beautiful, radical, trans and non-binary centered romance that blows me away. ![]()
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