I really liked this as someone who grew up playing a lot of sports and being seen as not one of the boys but too tom boy for girls I found my younger self a lot in this book when it came to that. I think the writing was well paced and the characters were interesting to follow. I love stories about girl's finding their own path especially in sports because that is what happened to me. I highly recommend and I think it was a good read

Grace used to live for football, but that was before she started to transition, and now she doesn’t know what she wants. Before, she was one of the best kickers around. When the team asks her to come back, she realizes she misses the family that was the team, and agrees.

It is hard to transition, and have everyone know you from before. Grace has to grow quite a thick skin.

This is an interesting football story, becasue that is what this is, on top of the story of transitioning. If you like football, then a lot of the plays and stories of games will probablky be appealing. I sometimes was lost, because I don’t want a lot of football, but I totally got what Grace was going through, and yes, resonated each time there was some horrible thing said to her. The transphobia and even homophobia is rampant through the book, as it often is in life.

The author, who is also trans, knows from where she writes, as she used to play football. She says she wrote this book for all the queer kids out there. She would have loved to have a book like this when she was trying to find her place. And it is important for these sorts of books to exist, to show that the “other" is not so different after all. And to also show that you can be queer and survive.

This being a voice saying, this is what I’m going through, and I get it if you are going through this too, is very important with queer youth. They often dont’ see any representation out there. It is very important to see and be seen.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 13th of March 21025.

I really liked this! It did feel like there was a bit too much going on and the Zoe plot-line in particular felt crammed in/underdeveloped, but overall I think this was a great debut. Grace is a realistic teen character who is easy to root for even when she's making mistakes, and I think it is so valuable for teens to have representation like her: a trans girl who is secure in the fact that she's a girl, but who also loves football and hanging out with her jock guy friends. I can't think of much (if any) good YA rep for tomboyish trans girls other than this book.