haha i think the surprise was more for the top than the readers, since the cover art hinted pretty heavily what the positions would be like (top lying in between the bottom's legs etc ???) MAYBE ?
IDK I get really tired of owl-human hybrid ukes with half the body mass and triple the eye size of the semes so it's nice.
Oh no, I really love unusual ukes a LOT (my fav being older ones, yakuza, or delinquents), it's just this one in particular didn't appeal as much to me because it seemed a bit too cookie cutter for this type of pairing (there wasn't really anything interesting about them outside of it being the flipped roles idea - personality or anything else wasn't really a focus). That's all.
Aw I was hoping you'd made a list of unusual ukes xD but yeah I guess I just didn't stop to consider who was going to do what so it was going to be a surprise either way!
I feel a little disappointed because I easily guessed the uke and it felt a bit... too obvious? Like, an obvious pull to make a "ooh! surprise twist!" that I didn't fall for... Oh well. The are was fine and I do like masc bottoms, I just wish the setup wasn't so... easy or something.
Or I've just simply read too many stories that I'm not surprised as often now. Lol