A great anthology filled with lots of stories set in various forms of fantasy worlds, with chracters of varying trans identities.
I believe this is the first time I have read a book with characters (yes, multiple) that use any pronouns and have them interchanged throughout their time in the story, which felt great on a representation level personally.
I also loved how there was no consistent trans experience throughout the stories, because the only universal trans experience is being trans. That is it, and the anthology reflected that well. I cannot believe this is YA, not because it's not written as YA, but because even a few years ago when I started reading YA novels, it was extremely rare to get a single queer character in fantasy, and here we are, with fourteen trans main characters!

I read an eARC of Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis. Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins Children’s Books.

This was a fantastic collection of stories. As always, your love of certain stories will range. I found myself liking all the stories, but there were ones that I liked more than others. There were my absolute favorites like the first one and the last one. The ones that just were so sweet that I could see myself reading them when I needed a boost. Like the Cinderella retelling or valentine one.

There were a few that just didn’t hit right. Like the one about chakras, that started out super interesting before there was a time skip that didn’t quite work for me and felt a little jarring.

Overall, I really enjoyed the stories and the various parts and themes that the stories that the stories are written about, and if you have any interest, I highly recommend picking this up!

This is a delightful collection of magical tales that celebrate outside the gender-binary. I enjoyed each one immensely, and the unique way each author's identity colored each breathtaking story.

This was easily my favorite read for the month of March. I mean it’s not often that I can read an anthology and definitively say that I enjoyed every story but that was definitely the case with this one. It’s almost impossible for me to pick a favorite but there is a story about two queer kids who have to work together to take care of a dragon egg and it was so cute. Some of my other favorites include a loose Cinderella retelling and a story about a non-binary Keeper helping souls on their journey to the afterlife.

If anybody needs me I’ll be gushing over all of these stories for the foreseeable future.

I really liked this anthology! I'm not the hugest fan of anthologies in general because I get sucked into the world's and sad when there's no more. The stand out one for me was by R Capetta and Cory McCarthy. Besides them, I only had known of Mason Deaver and Emery Lee. I'm excited to check out other works by the rest of the authors in the collection!
1. Saundra Mitchell 3☆
2. Sonora Reyes 4.5☆
3. Renee Reynolds 3☆
4. R Capetta and Cory McCarthy 5☆
5. Francesca Tacchi 2.5☆
6. Ayida Shonibar 2.5☆
7. Nik Traxler 3☆
8. g. haron davis 3.5☆
9. Jonathan Lenore Kastin 4☆
10. Mason Deaver 5☆
11. Ash Nouveau 3☆
12. Cam Montgomery 2.5 ☆
13. Dove Salvatierra 3☆
14. Emery Lee 4☆

Thank you NetGalley for the ecopy to review.

3.5 ⭐️
This anthology was a great mix of exploring gender identity, trans joy, and magic. All the stories felt similar in writing style, so they flowed well together. The world building was pretty exceptional for such short stories, I think there was only two worlds that left me confused.
These were my fav stories: Origin Story, Dragons Name Themselves, The Hallow King, Genderella, Espejismos
I will say, this book felt daunting due to its length and slower pace. If you enjoy rich writing with a slower pace, you’ll probably enjoy this. Or if you just chose to read 1 story a week, I think this would be a really enjoyable book :)
These stories gave me a new perspective to gender as a whole and I’m really glad I can look at it from a different perspective now.
Despite all these wonderful things, slower paced books are just not my cup of tea, and I really struggled through the middle of these stories.
P.s. The description made me think this would be a very joyful book, but there is a lot of pain the characters go through in most of the stories (gender dysphoria, transphobia, etc)

What a great anthology.
Anthologies are tricky because a lot of times I like a couple and don’t like many but this one was really good. I enjoyed all the stories and liked how it was compiled together. I loved the magic and witch craft throughout highlighting trans joy!

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins for an eARC

It took me a while to get into this anthology, as the first few stories just weren’t for me (not a bad thing, I just feel like they’re for a younger audience), but the stories in this that I got into, I LOVED!!!
My favorites are: Dragons Name Themselves, Bite the Hand, Bend the Truth Break it Too

And my absolute favorite was Espejismos!

Planning on recommending this to friends and grabbing a copy when I can!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher!

Thank you, NetGalley and Harper Collins!
A wonderful anthology of stories. I was so happy to see all the trans and gender-nonconforming stories. These stories were exactly what I was expecting; Magical and beautiful and whimsical. All the queer characters are celbrated and enbraced. It is refreshing to see stories celebrwting queernedss as opposed to shaming or hiding it. Highly recommend

What could possibly be a better concept for an anthology than stories about trans magic? I love this concept so much, so I had super high hopes for this anthology.

I did enjoy most stories, but at the same time, most of them felt fairly forgettable. However, three stories did stand out to me: Bite the Hand by Nik Traxler and Pinar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloys, Genderella by Mason Deaver, and the final story, The Door to the Other Side by Emery Lee. This final one was my absolute favourite, which I honestly expected because I love Emery Lee.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for letting me read this eARC in exchange for my honest review!

These stories were so cute and full of love and magic. I love the idea of a book focusing on how trans kids can be magical. I’m not usually very good with fantasy and a few of these stories went over my head but my favorites were:
Halloween Love by Sonora Reyes
Dragons Name Themselves by R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy
Genderella by Mason Deaver &
Espejiamos by Dove Salvatierra

These stories were very inclusive and informative. A few of the stories were sort of hard to follow and I ended up being confused by them or they just weren’t as interesting. I liked how many of them were about a magical school of some sort. These stories were fun and silly mixed in with some serious topics about being true to yourself and not standing for anything less than respect. I appreciate these stories even if they all weren’t my cup of tea

3.5

This was a cute collection of fantasy short stories featuring trans and gender nonconforming main characters by trans and gender nonconforming authors. As with most anthologies, this was a mixed bag. Tonally, most of these stories fell in the quirky, fun category which is not my preference but I can see why these authors would lean into that in their fiction when the real world is full of bigotry and violence against trans people.

Favorites were:
Halloween Love by Sonora Reyes
In a Name by Ayida Shonibar
The Hallow King by Jonathan Kastin
Espejismos by Dove Salvatierra

Honorable Mentions to:
High Tide by Francesca Tacchi
Genderella by Mason Deaver
The Door to the Other Side by Emery Lee

This was an interesting anthology full of LGBTQ+ stories that were epic!! I need to see if any of these authors have their own full stories. Because, I am hooked!! I need to read more of these. Don't let this one pass you by.

This book was fire. This book was filled with Trans magic and I loved every single moment of it. this showed me everything i needed to see and more.

The concept for this book is excellent. I really enjoyed a few of the stories but a lot of them were just okay. I’m glad that books like this are getting published and put out in the world! We need more trans stories.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the ARC!

A stunning anthology of stories featuring trans joy with varying levels of fantasy! So many fantastic authors on this list and beyond that I was attracted by the title and cover alone. Each voice is unique, the representation and diversity is truly delightful. It's so refreshing to read fantasy where LGBTQIA+ characters are celebrated and not killed off casually. When it comes to short stories, you never know which ones will resonate and which ones flop. Overall, I felt a few were lacking but this was a very strong collection! I loved the ones with lower stakes the best because it just worked better for the format. Some of the ones with more complex world building and higher stakes felt underdeveloped with the character development. Still a very enjoyable read, highly recommend!

Excellent read! I loved the diversity of the characters. You definitely get attached to the stories. These would be even more amazing if they were expanded on either in novellas or full-length novels.

Well done!

Thank you to Netgalley, HarperCollins, and HarperTeen for allowing me to read this book.

I was really excited to read Transmogrify. As a collection of short stories I felt it was missing the cohesiveness of an anthology. Additionally, I felt the majority of the short stories were trying to accomplish too much in a limited amount of time. By the time the stories end I felt like I only got exposition versus a whole story. I will say my favorite story out of the whole collection was Genderella. It was the only short story in the collection that felt like a story.

Please be sure to check trigger warnings before reading.

This is a fantastic, trans-centered collection of magical stories, and I loved pretty much all of them (no mean feat in an anthology)! The cover is so cute, and I'm sure it will attract tons of readers to this volume, too, as it should.

A really cute collection of LGBTQ short stories. I loved the variety of themes in each story and the core messages about acceptance, love, and friendship.