f2m turned out to be fantastic follow up reading for Delusions...

f2m turned out to be fantastic follow up reading for Delusions of Gender.

Written in first person, this book seems more like a memoir or autobiography than anything else. Although it was off to a bit of a rough start, with patchy chapters and scenes that both started and finished a little bit too abruptly, the story found its voice and went really smoothly from there. I really got to like the character of Skye, who became Finn. The story within the story of Finn’s great uncle Al was incredibly interesting, especially given that it gave us insight into the reactions of a family towards an intersex young man from two generations ago, but it was also incredibly relevant to the present story.

The parents’ struggles were real and authentic, without either one of them coming across as a ‘bad guy’ or antagonist. This was just another way in which the story read as an autobiography instead of a structured narrative.

The most interesting part of the book, for me, was that it was set after the age of eighteen for the main character. Finn isn’t at school, though he does live with his parents. He has a part time job as a dish hand in a Chinese restaurant. As the genre is littered with teens going through transitions and various other LGBT issues, this really stood out.