isn’t a great implication? and like, conversion therapy is still legal in much of the US soooo, – I felt there were some pretty strong implications that Costa Rica was “backwards” and that was why they were able to do have a conversion camp there but not in the US, which. Some of these may have changed between the ARC and the finished copy, so do take some of this with a grain of salt, but.
Next we get to the slew of issues I had with this book that were a bit more. He even acknowledged he was cheating, and he still did it and didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with it. My next big problem was that I really hated Connor. He just annoyed me so much, and like I was rooting for him, but only on the very basic level of ‘literally no one deserves this place so I hope he can get out’, because I sure as hell didn’t care about his wellbeing specifically. Somewhat relatedly, the pacing was abysmal. This took place over the space of a few (?) days, but it was really hard to follow the timeline and it just ended up feeling really choppy and messy. a bit all over the place? I truly feel like this book tried to do too much at once. sort of felt really rough, almost like first draft level writing? So maybe it got better between the ARC and the final version, I’m not sure–but either way an arc shouldn’t really feel like a first draft.
I don’t know if it got old or if it just got worse, but it very quickly became unbearable to me. I could not stand the writing style. I liked it for the first maybe 10% of the book, but after that. My first problem with this book was just, the writing. I don’t want to minimize that, and I believe this book will mean a lot to many people. I truly hope that others love this book much more than I did. Conversion therapy is an incredibly important topic, and this book really packs a punch with some very powerful and important messages. many, many criticisms, I do want to touch on the good in this book. I’m sad, because I think it had the potential to be great, but instead it’s.
This read like a book that couldn’t make up its mind on what exactly it wanted to be. But I also had some pretty major issues with it, both in the sense of ‘I think this is sorta problematic?’ and in the sense of ‘was this actually edited?’ Wow I hated this book. It was one of my most anticipated releases of the year, and I tried really hard to like it. This doesn’t affect my opinions in any way. I was given this eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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