I’ll say one thing for Sass: he knows how to write characters that are multifaceted, believable, and at times, hideously real – his villains especially. Plus, a bunch of kids at a conversion therapy camp rising up against their captors? Sign. Reviewers on Goodreads dubbed it a Hunger Games lookalike with amazing LGBTQ+ rep, and it was endorsed by Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased. But first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are- and taking this place down.Īdam Sass’s debut novel was one of my most anticipated reads for 2020. Connor plans to escape and bring the other kidnapped teens with him. 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. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.”īut Connor’s troubles are only beginning. 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. Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare.
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