The last third really saved this for me, because I found the kind of prelude before the actual Drag story quite extensive and not as interesting. I understand how it's important for the story and necessary to tell the story of The Black Flamingo but I just didn't feel too engaged. I sadly also think the format of this book didn't work have enough room to really feel with the character so I felt unaffected by a lot of what was going on. That being said I loved the presentation of Drag and seeing the change in confidence and what identity means.

I think this book might work a lot better in the audio boom version and have more of an impact if it is listened to as spoken word poetry, especially since it's narrated by the author himself.