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A review by ruxandra_grr
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
4.0
It's so kind of you to visit in my loneliness.
This was quite a ride of a book, heartbreaking and funny and emotional. I loved the characters - all of the kids were just grrrreat. I do have to sit on it for a while and process. It was hard to face up to the horrifying reality of gay conversion camps. Maddening. Anger-inducing.
Surrender Your Sons cemented once again, for me, the idea that there are no two equal sides when it comes to this kind of hate. There's the side that wants to love and be loved. And there's the side that hates, that twists the idea of what humanity is, and that wants to be emboldened to hate and hurt and destroy. Some of the villains in the book suffer from so much toxic self-loathing that they're consumed by it and they threaten to consume what's around them as well. An endless cycle of hate.
But when it came to love, I really loved Connor, his sense of humour and his love for others. I loved how all the queer kids got together and that's where they drew their strength.
This was quite a ride of a book, heartbreaking and funny and emotional. I loved the characters - all of the kids were just grrrreat. I do have to sit on it for a while and process. It was hard to face up to the horrifying reality of gay conversion camps. Maddening. Anger-inducing.
Surrender Your Sons cemented once again, for me, the idea that there are no two equal sides when it comes to this kind of hate. There's the side that wants to love and be loved. And there's the side that hates, that twists the idea of what humanity is, and that wants to be emboldened to hate and hurt and destroy. Some of the villains in the book suffer from so much toxic self-loathing that they're consumed by it and they threaten to consume what's around them as well. An endless cycle of hate.
But when it came to love, I really loved Connor, his sense of humour and his love for others. I loved how all the queer kids got together and that's where they drew their strength.