Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

6 reviews

venuscollective's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Outing, and Grief

Minor: Biphobia, Dysphoria, and Racism

mrkdk's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

elissareadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Homophobia, Suicide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Biphobia and Islamophobia

This is a book about a conversion therapy camp. Be aware of the triggers but know that ultimately, queer people win in the end.

itsocchiolism's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The main character, Connor, is a breath of fresh air. His way of thinking and speaking feels real. All the intrusive thoughts, doubts, the sass, the wit, spectacular!! 

This book was heartbreaking and freeing. 
It wrapped up in a way that was realistic for a group of queer teens in this day and age, full of pain and hope at once. 

There are more lessons in this book than i can type with blurry eyes but the one that stuck out the most to me is that for every person who wants to hurt you, there is a person who wants to save you.

The characters grasped my heart and i know they won’t ever let go. 

“It was so kind of you to visit me in my loneliness.”

beautiful, painful, truthful, hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Transphobia

biblioleah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

this was a really strong book, and i think it brings a lot of great discussions to the table. i did have a few issues with the cheating and the characters and the timeline of things (like the whole book takes place over basically one day and that makes zero sense) but i’d easily still recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Deadnaming

queenfury's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

i had been looking forward to this one, but it was such a disappointing read to me. the pacing is atrocious (am i seriously supposed to believe all of this happened in a day??), and the voice of the narrator is annoying. the plot revelations are far too contrived to be satisfying. the worst part is how much of a white savior the main character is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, Kidnapping, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Suicide