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A review by heyitsmeg777
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
NOTE: Thanks to Tbrandbeyond tours for the opportunity to participate in this book tour!
I have been really grateful for the chance to participate in these tours and spread the word about these new and upcoming books! Today's tour is really a moving tale that brought awareness to the harsh reality of the gay conversion camps, of becoming proud of your sexuality, and in finding people to accept you for who you are.
So, here we go.
Short Summary: A newly out gay teen gets sent to a conversion therapy boot camp where the true fight to survive begins.
Long Summary:Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare.
His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.”
But Connor’s troubles are only beginning. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide from the campers to the “converted” staff and cagey camp director, and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. But first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are—and taking this place down.
I was absolutely hooked since the beginning--it's the sort of book best read in the evening to late night vibes with the twists, the turns and the heartwrenching reality we still live in today with homophobia and conversion therapy camps (which I thought no longer existed) and especially now in our times with politicians who want to decide what we do with our lives, with our bodies, and with who we choose to love, this book is one worth reading. Connor's story was all sorts of relatable from music tastes (Hey Carly Rae Jepsen and Ariana Grande
I have been really grateful for the chance to participate in these tours and spread the word about these new and upcoming books! Today's tour is really a moving tale that brought awareness to the harsh reality of the gay conversion camps, of becoming proud of your sexuality, and in finding people to accept you for who you are.
So, here we go.
Short Summary: A newly out gay teen gets sent to a conversion therapy boot camp where the true fight to survive begins.
Long Summary:Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare.
His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.”
But Connor’s troubles are only beginning. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide from the campers to the “converted” staff and cagey camp director, and it quickly becomes clear that no one is safe. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. But first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are—and taking this place down.
I was absolutely hooked since the beginning--it's the sort of book best read in the evening to late night vibes with the twists, the turns and the heartwrenching reality we still live in today with homophobia and conversion therapy camps (which I thought no longer existed) and especially now in our times with politicians who want to decide what we do with our lives, with our bodies, and with who we choose to love, this book is one worth reading. Connor's story was all sorts of relatable from music tastes (Hey Carly Rae Jepsen and Ariana Grande