Mild From Unusual Stars by Ryka Aoki
This distinctive, genre-blending science fantasy novel has a number of principal characters, together with 79-year-old Shizuka, a violin instructor who offered her soul for musical expertise. If she will be able to discover seven souls to take her place, she’s free of the contract, and he or she solely has yet another to go — and one yr to take action. Her new scholar is the proper candidate: Katrina, a teen trans lady who’s a violin prodigy. Oh, after which there’s Lan, an alien operating a donut store, who Shizuka slowly begins to fall for. It is a lovely ebook that additionally has some harrowing moments of trauma and transphobia. I’ve really learn nothing prefer it.
