Transitioning Home by Heather K O'Malley.
Thank you Netgalley for a ARC for an unbiased review.
As someone with a trans husband, plus several trans women friends (inc one who is army), I was intrigued to see how this story panned out.
Sadly, my expectations on reading the outline didn't quite match how I felt on finishing the book.
Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of things that were okay or good about the story. The very real questioning, how to deal with not only acceptance within yourself, but then also how to navigate that to the wider world.
But, the biggest problem I had overall was the way the story was told just didn't grab me as I was reading it. I struggled a few times just to get through not only chapters, but paragraphs. It felt too rigid even. The emotion I was expecting to feel simply didn't materialise.
A shame because overall the premise was there, and I could almost feel that with more experience perhaps, the story would flow better. It was slightly frustrating for me because of this, because the sense of a great book was lurking beneath the surface, but the overall storytelling let it down.
For the good parts I enjoyed I am giving this 3/5 stars 🌟 🌟🌟
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