The Witch Boy by Lee Knox Ostertag (2017)

[eta: As of 2025, this author's name is Lee Knox Ostertag and his pronouns are he/him. The book was published under his former name Molly Knox Ostertag.]

page from The Witch Boy where Aster's mom tries to dissuade him from learning witchcraft

page from The Witch Boy where Aster's mom tries to dissuade him from learning witchcraft

In Aster's magical village, all girls grow up to be witches and all boys grow up to be shapeshifters. This is a big problem for Aster, who feels drawn to witchcraft and has been secretly practicing spells that only girls are supposed to know, much to his parents' chagrin. But when some of the boys are captured by a monster in the woods, Aster must use his unconventional magic to save them, whether his parents approve or not.

I had mixed feelings about this book. The main issue I had with it is that although the idea seems to be that Aster is a gender-nonconforming boy and the message is that it's okay for boys to do "girl" things... Aster reads really, really strongly as a trans girl to me. It's not just the magic stuff, it's everything about the character. This made it feel jarring when Aster is still seen as a boy even after the happy ending when the parents (naturally) learn their lesson about harmfully rigid gender roles. But there are two more books in the series, so maybe there turns out to be more to it?

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muccamukk

Yeah, that does feel really jarring. Is it an older book?

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pauraque

Nope, 2017.

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muccamukk

I now see that you cleverly put that in the post title.

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pauraque

This is true! But I'm not an incredibly observant person myself, so I try to set my expectations for others accordingly.

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cmcmck

Also the small matter that we are considered powerful witches by many witches.

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pauraque

Yeah, it's not the sort of book that really looks at real life witchcraft traditions. The worldbuilding is very breezy.

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lilysea

Interesting!

I read him as a cis boy who wanted to be a witch, not a shape shifter

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pauraque

I don't doubt that was the author's intention! It just didn't land that way with me for some reason.

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senmut

Intriguing. And yeah, with two more books, maybe it is headed there.

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pauraque

From other comments, it sounds like that is not the endgame for the series after all!

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sdk

Are you planning the read the next one? I am curious if this is a planned arc because I do imagine that would be super jarring for sure.

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pauraque

I was thinking about it, but now that I know from other commenters that the character is definitively not trans, I'm less enthused. I think the way the author chose to portray the character just doesn't work for me.

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torachan

I love this series and yes, Aster is a boy who does magic, not a trans girl.

I didn't read him as trans at all, and while I wouldn't dislike a story about a trans girl who wants to be a witch rather than a shapeshifter, I also really like the story it is, about it being okay for a boy to be a witch.

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lilysea

I didn't read him as trans at all, and while I wouldn't dislike a story about a trans girl who wants to be a witch rather than a shapeshifter, I also really like the story it is, about it being okay for a boy to be a witch

Agree!

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pauraque

Gotcha. For whatever reason the character just pinged me as trans from the start, so it was hard for me to get my head around the intended interpretation.

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larryhammer

(Found this older post)

Yeah, the intended coding is around gender non-conformity, not being trans, and this carries through in the next books -- plus while it's a little subtle in this one, Aster's extended family includes a couple members who are gender-nonconforming in other ways.

I read the first two with Eaglet a couple times through, back when bedtime still involved reading aloud, but after the third book, they were no longer interested in the story, which is interesting as I thought that one finally got a grip on the metaphor. I think though they were a bit annoyed at how a certain relationship evolved lol

I assume you know that Ostertag is married to N.D. Stevenson, yes?

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pauraque

Yeah, I didn't continue with the series because the author's intent just didn't click with the way the character read to me.

I did indeed know that Ostertag and Stevenson were married, and--well, I was about to say something about how a lot of us in the queer community (and especially in the lesbian-adjacent community) have had people in our lives who are "gender nonconforming" but totally not trans until they suddenly actually are trans, and then a lot of things make more sense when you see them through a truer lens... But I had not actually been updated on the fact that Ostertag now identifies as a trans man too, so yeah, there you go. It does not surprise me at all that a trans person who hadn't yet realized he was trans wrote this book, and that its presentation of a "totally not trans, just gender nonconforming" character seemed a bit askew to a reader who was trans and knew it.

(As an aside, I'm way overdue for a She-Ra rewatch. What a great show.)

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larryhammer

Ah -- I knew there was some sort of update on Ostertag (thanks to Stevenson's comics) but not that it's he is he. I can see that reaction, based on that.

(I'm overdue myself.)

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games [134]
- developer
  - a.i. design [1]
  - absolute magic [1]
  - ad artis oy [1]
  - ada rook [1]
  - adelpha studio [1]
  - amanita design [1]
  - anna anthropy [2]
  - ares dragonis [1]
  - arnowitz studios [1]
  - aruma studios [1]
  - astral software [1]
  - attention to detail [1]
  - beam software [1]
  - benjamin schulte [1]
  - beyond the bark [1]
  - bill williams [1]
  - blizzard entertainment [1]
  - broderbund software [2]
  - bydandan [1]
  - c.m. ralph [1]
  - cadabra games [1]
  - chief rebel [1]
  - color gray games [2]
  - computing specialties [1]
  - crl group [1]
  - cube legal [1]
  - cyberdreams [1]
  - daedelic entertainment [1]
  - dan baker [1]
  - daniel benmergui [1]
  - deadlycrow games [1]
  - dma design [1]
  - double fine [3]
  - dreamforge [1]
  - eclipse software [1]
  - focus hill games [1]
  - friend shaped games [1]
  - frolic studio [1]
  - funcom [1]
  - fáyer [1]
  - ghost creative studios [1]
  - giant squid [1]
  - gray design associates [1]
  - grizzly games [1]
  - gugames [1]
  - hammered crow [1]
  - hermanos magia [1]
  - hongoneon [1]
  - horis international [1]
  - hummingwarp [1]
  - icy mountain studio [1]
  - imaginarylab [1]
  - inkle [1]
  - isometricorp games [1]
  - jamwitch [1]
  - jump over the age [2]
  - kenneth morse [1]
  - kevin bales [1]
  - lance [1]
  - love conquers all [1]
  - lucas pope [2]
  - lucasarts/lucasfilm [13]
  - lucito loquito [1]
  - maddy makes games [1]
  - made from strings [1]
  - mahdi bahrami [1]
  - marevo collective [1]
  - matthew alexander [1]
  - maxis [1]
  - mediatonic [1]
  - michael abbott [1]
  - microlink [1]
  - microsoft [1]
  - mike bellika [1]
  - mike saenz [1]
  - mino_dev [1]
  - mobius digital [2]
  - montraluz [1]
  - montsoft [1]
  - moraffware [2]
  - nels anderson [1]
  - obsidian entertainment [1]
  - p.z. karen co. [1]
  - paramo games [1]
  - patapez interactive [1]
  - polychroma games [1]
  - pomelo games [1]
  - poncle [1]
  - powerhoof [3]
  - pál balog [1]
  - re-logic [1]
  - redwood games [1]
  - rundisc [1]
  - sharedata [1]
  - sierra/on-line systems [6]
  - steven don [1]
  - stone/digital extremes [1]
  - sukeban games [1]
  - sunhead games [1]
  - synapse software [1]
  - telltale games [1]
  - terrible toybox [1]
  - terry cavanagh [2]
  - the brotherhood [1]
  - the dreamers guild [1]
  - the edge [1]
  - the game kitchen [1]
  - the learning company [2]
  - the software toolworks [2]
  - third world [1]
  - thomas colthurst [1]
  - tiago rech [2]
  - tokoronyori [1]
  - uppercut games [2]
  - videlectrix [4]
  - videocult [1]
  - wagotabi limited [1]
  - westwood studios [1]
  - wishfully studios [1]
  - za/um [1]
- genre
  - action/arcade [6]
  - adult [1]
  - adventure [45]
  - artillery [1]
  - bullet hell [1]
  - city builder [2]
  - deduction [3]
  - edutainment [13]
  - exploration [11]
  - mmorpg [2]
  - platformer [15]
  - puzzle [26]
  - racing [1]
  - roguelike [4]
  - rpg [9]
  - shooter [6]
  - simulation [3]
  - strategy [3]
  - survival crafting [2]
  - survival horror [1]
  - tower defense [1]
  - virtual tabletop [2]
  - visual novel [5]
- year
  - 1980 [2]
  - 1981 [1]
  - 1982 [1]
  - 1983 [4]
  - 1984 [7]
  - 1985 [3]
  - 1986 [2]
  - 1987 [3]
  - 1988 [3]
  - 1989 [6]
  - 1990 [10]
  - 1991 [6]
  - 1992 [4]
  - 1993 [5]
  - 1994 [1]
  - 1995 [5]
  - 1997 [1]
  - 1998 [2]
  - 1999 [2]
  - 2005 [1]
  - 2008 [3]
  - 2009 [3]
  - 2010 [2]
  - 2011 [1]
  - 2012 [3]
  - 2013 [1]
  - 2014 [3]
  - 2015 [2]
  - 2016 [4]
  - 2017 [5]
  - 2018 [5]
  - 2019 [5]
  - 2020 [8]
  - 2021 [7]
  - 2022 [10]
  - 2023 [10]
  - 2024 [8]
  - 2025 [7]
  - 2026 [1]
gaming [9]
kink [7]
language [4]
memes [33]
- ao3 [3]
- december talking [20]
- fandom a-z [6]
- femslash february [6]
- first lines [2]
- five questions [2]
- letter [1]
- love [2]
- something every day [23]
- titles [1]
movies [12]
music [33]
personal
- dreams [8]
- family [1]
- health [11]
- mental health [7]
- mishaps [5]
- neurodivergence [1]
- parenting [1]
- random [6]
- remembrance [8]
- travel [12]
- work [1]
photos [39]
- fall colors [3]
- flowers [14]
- scenery [26]
- snow [12]
- urban [11]
plays [4]
podfic [7]
poetry [4]
queerness [15]
- gender [15]
reading [4]
social media exodus [3]
three weeks for dreamwidth [1]
videos [4]
weather [11]
writing [44]
year in review [18]
youtube [19]

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