The Harem Protagonist Was Turned Into A Girl!! And Doesn’t Want To Change Back!!!??: Illustrated Edition

by Fern V. Bedek

Aliens. Robots. Vampires. Five girls deciding they want to marry him. Kevin’s life is a mess. Now he’s been turned into a girl. It’s just one thing after another…

Actually, that last one is proving surprisingly nice.

(Now with pictures.)

Genres: Science Fiction, Romance, Transgender, Fantasy

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 16, 2023

About the author

Hello!
I’m a Canadian trans woman with a love of art, science, and writing. I have been writing on Scribblehub for a year now, under the username Beedok, and am working on making a full time career out of it.

Reviews

[Aurora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. That was the most fun I’d had with a book in ages. The humour was absolutely delightfully absurd. The main character was really cute, and all the relationships between everyone all ended really sweetly. Again, I cannot overstate how much fun I had reading this. The illustrations throughout the book were really cute too!

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

If getting your egg cracked via alien sex swap technology + lesbian polyamory with a minor sideplot of alien politics and attempted political assassinations sounds interesting to you, you will probably have a great time with this novel.
It's fluffy and sweet for the most part, although some of the reactions to Svetlana's coming out were more harsh initially than I expected from the description (prepare for some misgendering, deadnaming and having your coming out disregarded as a mistake). However, once that is solved the novel continues on its fast, fun and fluffy whirlwind of shopping trips, coming out to your parents and being really gay for your alien girlfriends.
I really enjoyed the sidecharacter representation of being a trans butch as well as the well done representation of plurality.
All in all, I liked it and even though it was a bit too fluffy for my regular reading tastes at points, I still had a great time.

[Lenalia]

Very much structured like a harem anime, being an episodic series of shenanigans with background that mostly comes to matter at the very end. Except with a transbian polycule. 💖

Also, finally, some decent fucking representation of plurality. After reading two books in a row that had good trans representation but also a crappy Jekyll-and-Hyde take on plurality, this is a breath of fresh air. More books that do this at all decently, please, I'm begging!

[Issy Waldrom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and enjoyable story. Trans and poly, it's light and fun, very much a homage to harem animes, but a lot more healthy.

[The Book Badger · Rating 5 out of 5]

What's not to like! It's got disaster lesbians, trans folk, space robots and fight scenes. All the things I want in a book!

It's super chill and fun to read and I desperately want more of it.

[Bigbootyreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This could totally be a series. Its so cute, funny, warm, and progressive. Loved it.

[Jacek · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable romp of ludicrousness which poked fun at certain aspects of unwanted harem anime, and soundly resolved it with polyamory.

[Elena Abbott · Rating 5 out of 5]

what an amazingly absurdly entertaining book. Like just the sheer craziness throughout the whole thing was enough to keep me reading for pretty much an entire afternoon and evening. I've never been a big harem fan but this one was really fun and imaginative and just wild. Definitely worth a read. In fact I hear there's a sequel releasing soon or already released and I'm probably gonna read that one in a day too.

[Emily Sinclair · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't get all the positive reviews. This book is terrible, there are no stakes and every issue is resolved by the protagonist kissing it away. If you want to read the book equivalent of a bad ecchi anime, this is for you. If you want anything approaching a decent understanding of gender go elsewhere.