Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

11 reviews

ronniereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Review:
This book had me torn between I’m in love with it and fuming! I should’ve known that a book about a remote conversion therapy camp would have me going through multiple emotions but this had my emotions in a yo-yo. One thing I loved is that it was unpredictable. I’ve said before that thrillers can be predictable, but I didn’t know what was coming next in this one. There was such a realism to the emotions each character portrayed. Adam completely captured the insidiousness of conversion therapy and how people can think they are doing the right thing while cause tremendous harm and trauma. I couldn’t imagine the thought process it takes for someone to even consider putting their child through this. It was rough at times, but I so enjoyed this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Trafficking and Death

leanniefae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Outing, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

shereadytoread's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.5

 

This book was TOUGH. It’s a conversion camp story so obvious TW for anything associated with homophobia or conversion therapy. It is pretty interesting though some things weren’t fleshed out quite enough for them to make sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Confinement, and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lh_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

thegreenperson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful relaxing sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Homophobia, Murder, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Deadnaming, and Emotional abuse

cheesepuppy's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I swear on my life I did not know I was getting into a conversion camp story. I went to tell my spouse that this story was not what I prepared to read and started to read them the description. I quickly found I had just failed to read the description.

All that aside, this book was amazing!!! So well written. I can’t believe the majority of the story one happened over the span of a couple days. Would definitely recommend this one. Read the content warnings first though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

lycanhood's review against another edition

Too YA leaning for me. The pacing was super frustrating, and I just wasn't into what was happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

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

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