*clapping* it WAS, it was. & it's delightful to have excitement echoed back!

This is one of the more thorough examinations of identity, gender, autonomy, and social role that I've ever seen in an AI story; it's intimately told and persistently ambivalent.

Persistently ambivalent is exactly exactly right. I continue to love the internal framing of transness as sort've an...operating descriptor, and only dubiously true; it's exactly the kind of distance I end up trying to take to look at myself. You're an excellent book reviewer, thank you for the early look :)