miloblue 's review for:

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I have pretty mixed feelings about this. I read an ebook version from the library, and almost DNFd it. Not because it is a bad book or because i was disinterested, but because the topic is a hard one. I pushed through, though, in the last 48 hours before it needed to go back, and i’m glad i did. 

If you’re reading this review you probably already have the gist of it:
Mixed-race girl living in “christian” cult family figures out she’s queer and….

Content-wise it’s contemporaneous with The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Surrender Your Sons, but thankfully there’s less torture… kinda.

Anyway,

there’s a HEA 🥰 and

as challenging as I found it, def. 4½ ⭐️