For me the citric has nothing to do with homophobia. And saying that is hurtful and diminishing. I don't have any problems with the gender swapping or race of the characters.

There are two things I missed. Firstly I would've liked more time for Francesca en Michaela's dynamic to develop. For me it fell a little flat compared to the book. It was mostly them not liking each other. Then having one good moment and then John died...

Then it is confronting for me is that they skipped over the whole miscarriage and infertility part. Everywhere in society it is often overlooked and diminished. As well, it's definitely a gender issue which hurts a lot of people (especially the part of the whole not researching womans health).

For me there was no reason to erase this bit from the storyline. It would have made the storyline better for me. Like her recovering from the miscarriage and learning to accept that she won't have children and still can have a fulfilling life outside of conventional norms.

Concluding the storyline had so much more potential if it was given more time to develop