Sylphrena
I think from the title and cover I expected the sapling cages to be transgender, rather than the very cute YA witchcraft story with a coming of age transgender protagonist. It became pretty clear after a few chapters that this wasn't gonna be quite what I expected, but I'd have loved to have had fantasy like this growing up. I'd probably pick a different book if I could only hand my younger self one book to spoil my gender reveal, but it'd make the list.
I think from the title and cover I expected the sapling cages to be transgender, rather than the very cute YA witchcraft story with a coming of age transgender protagonist. It became pretty clear after a few chapters that this wasn't gonna be quite what I expected, but I'd have loved to have had fantasy like this growing up. I'd probably pick a different book if I could only hand my younger self one book to spoil my gender reveal, but it'd make the list.