Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an eARC for me to review!

This is Studio Ghibli levels of cute and mystical with a big big focus on gender identity and family dynamics!! The art is ADORABLE and the storyline (while a bit predictable) is well developed and wraps up nicely.

If you have a nonbinary person in your life and are struggling with using their correct pronouns, READ THIS BOOK.

And then go use their correct pronouns. :P

10/10, very cute, Odun is bae, etc., etc...

Loved this and can't wait until it comes out and I can share it at the library! Would recommend to the middle and high school age range. It hits a lot of notes that kids are looking for, like a parent-child relationship that is difficult, to say the least, an adventure through an imaginative magical world, and messy, multidimensional characters that aren't purely evil or good. I thought the comparisons to Spirited Away would set me up for disappointment, but I think they're actually pretty apt, I just wish we got to spend more time in the spirit world. One book wasn't enough!