biblialex 's review for:

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

3.0

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On one hand, it's an important book, because there are still so few teen novels with transgender protagonists. On the other hand, the story is really just good, not great. Gabe faces a lot of the same obstacles as real trans teens do, and it's good to see that struggle depicted, but the book often read to me as a cis person writing a trans person, not as a uniquely Gabe experience.