A review by lesbrary
The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by S.L. Huang

4.0

I really liked a lot of aspects to this: the specific ways the author found to retell this fairy tale were fascinating, and I loved the introspection about the main character's identity (what does it mean to ID as a lesbian and then fall for an ungendered person?)

I also appreciated that there's a genderqueer side character who uses hir/ze pronouns, so that the alien/mythical creature characters weren't the only representation of nonbinary people.

I was a little disappointed by the ending, though.

Spoiler

She dies, like the original Little Mermaid fairy tale.