Personally, although I liked reading a book that has a Lesbian and Transmasc* cast, the cliché way in which butch-femme dynamics played out within that felt a little old fashioned to me. It reminded me of strict lesbian gender roles in the 1990s in a way that I am happy we no longer have to put up with.

I am simultaneously sad there were no Transfem characters since the choice of cast made the book feel a type of way as a transmasc* person, like pronouns are respected but we're still not really seen as our gender. But that might say more about where I am in my journey than about the book.

My biggest gripe is that the idea that people who operate in an established criminal circuit would agree work for a known snitch ever, is wild to me. And people would certainly know, there's no way that could have been kept secret. Even the sister accepted the person who snitched and put their sister in jail for 8 years back into the house without an argument. Really unrealistic imo, there should have been words. I don't feel like that was dealt with appropriately and it made everyone except for the main character feel like props without their own emotional world rather than real people.