Top romance of 2024!

I love this book so much. To preface my review: I am married to a trans person who has transitioned in the past 4 years, but we've been together for 17 years. I feel like this means that I am one step below a trans person for being able to relate to this book. Thank goddess that this book did it right. The trans rep was beautiful. This book was mostly trans joy, and we need more trans people in romance that are experiencing pure trans joy. Mira got to exist as a woman falling in love who, oh yeah, happened to be trans. It was mentioned, but there was zero conflict around that fact. Refreshing! 

Grief is so hard to write about, and as someone who is currently experiencing grief I so appreciate how the topic was written about in this book. Characters experiencing grief, but still being held accountable and holding themselves accountable is a giant green flag! This is a healthy book, and I really believed that this couple would make it past the two epilogues. I don't like an epilogue so I only read the one, and I thought it ended perfectly there. 

It helped that Mira reminds me strongly of my own wife. I think this was the first time that I really fell in love with a character. I read a lot of romance, but I don't usually love one person. Usually I just ship the characters or not. This time I fell in love with one character, and I feel so happy she ended up happy. 

Also, having a character so easily explore their sexuality was also refreshing. Sometimes it really is that fluid.