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I have posted a much more in-depth review.  Feel free to delete this thread.

I have read a lot of transgender fiction, hundreds of stories, comics, and novels.  This story is one of the first ones that I would recommend to people who ask me where to start.  There are several reasons for this.

First of all, it is very funny.   There are a lot of good jokes both from within the characters themselves (several of whom work in television or comedy) and in the overall situation.   Fuego!  It has a rather large cast of characters and each of them add to the general chaos as all of them get swept into a scheme that everyone realizes is insane, but continues forward anyway.   The plotting never drags and the twists include several moments of surprise.

The second reason is that I think it is a great introduction to trans literature.   There has not been a lot about transgender people written by us, and a lot of what was available tended to trauma porn and sensationalism.   It is really only in the last few years that I've seen real comedy in the space, laughing with and not AT us.   There are copious footnotes explaining every queer/trans reference, so if you don't know what "egg" or "twink" means the author has you covered.   There is also a lot of general trivia scattered throughout that I found entertaining.   One of the major characters experiences a late-in-life realization that she is a trans woman. Speaking from experience, this is portrayed wonderfully.  The importance of finding a good support group comes clear as she tries to navigate her life.   I would not be surprised if reading this would cause some realizations in certain readers.   

Which brings me to the final point.  A lot of trans fiction made these days is wish fulfuillment.  We write stories where we are the heroes, in sharp contrast with what society thinks of us.   This story is kind of that, but it's not that simple.    Real world events work their way into the story and the effects of transphobia, large and small, are all over it.   The author actually fled the country during writing it.   Yet, even with all that is going wrong in both their personal lives and the world at large, these characters manage to persevere, they manage to fall in love, and they manage to grow.  At a time where we are under such an attack, a story of a group of realistically drawn (except maybe Gucci) characters banding together... that's just what we need right now.   I have no idea what the future of trans fiction looks like (it looks pretty grim, honestly) but this story so perfectly captures what it is like to be trans in 2024.

This is one of the funniest books I have ever read.     The original version did get bogged down by some real world horrors and I have not yet read this version to see if that is still true, but other than that there is a host of great characters, lots of gender feels and some really great twists.   And funny, did I mention that?

Played this at BigBadCon a couple of days ago, it was great fun.   The setting is quite imaginative and the Epithet system adds it's own flavor.  I played the Sorcerer which had a mechanic I've not seen before where you cast a spell by rolling dice and looking for patterns, if you don't get any matches then Chaos reigns.   Which is glorious.

I don't see a lot of stories about respectability politics.   All the time, Grace was so worried about how everyone saw her that she never really seemed to understand that the intolerant one was her.

This is a really great story.    I've read a lot of your stories, always so fully and affirming, but this one is more substantial and thus gives bigger feels.   The complexity of the sister's relationship and the world give it life.   And the cat, the cat is my favorite character.   Finally, the images are sooooo cute.

Two things  1) This story is really funny 2) it was almost painful to read the constant misunderstandings.    Very well done.