A review by readingpicnic
Us by Sara Soler

3.0

I really enjoyed the art style of this! I didn't read the synopsis before picking this up, and I'm pretty sure that I've seen this advertised as a book by a trans author, which isn't true since it's written by a cisgender bisexual woman whose partner is a trans woman. The story mainly focuses on the author's partner's social transition with many different groups of people and the reactions they receive in coming out. I appreciated the author's honesty with including thought processes she was going through that she feels shame and regret about now that she's looking back on her reaction to her partner coming out. On that note though, I feel like this book's primary audience is not trans people, but cis people like the author who are having someone close to them transition. I didn't not enjoy it as a trans person, but it kind of felt like a book for educating cis people on how to and how not to react to someone close to them coming out as trans since we mainly got the cis author's perspective for the whole book. I will also say that the author's humor is not for me, and I feel like she seemed too jokey about how her partner now has to experience transmisogyny and catcalling from strangers. Idk, it was an okay book.
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