I'll be honest, I don't know if I really cared as much about the bakery, the romance and magic baked goods parts of this story as I wanted to.
What touched me and made this book feel like a warm hug, a comfort book I know I will come back to, was the discussions / internal thoughts around Syd's gender.
There were even recipes for feelings, for gender expressions, so beautifully written I want to tab them all, print them all, go back and read them on a regular basis.
We don't get to read very many stories about questioning gender identites other than some general trans and non binary stories. I desperately need more agender characters, more questioning agender characters.