Marguerite Turley's Reviews > Cuckoo

Phew!! This book was a wild ride, but also a very important book for the times we’re living in. We follow a group of teens who are sent to a conversion camp and things seem a bit off. These poor kids are punished daily and forced to do hard intense labor until they drop, but they notice that some of the others are disappearing. What happens next is a whole of frightening and gory cosmic horror that would give Cronenberg a run for his money. The message in this book was clear though, these parents wanted their queer kids to be more “normal” replacing them with something that is far from their true selves. And in this story they become something completely “other”. It’s something we still see in the world today, and sadly it’s getting worse. Felker-Martin does an amazing job scaring us and opening our eyes to the disgusting nature of these camps to steal children’s identities and force them to be the way “God intended”. This book really pulled me in and feel for these poor teens and those that struggle with this on a daily basis.