Cuckoo
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Cuckoo
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This program features multicast narration.
From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.
"A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club
Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin.
In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived—but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.
Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it's too late.
The fate of the world depends on it.
“Tense and frighteningly visceral, Cuckoo is a masterwork of body horror thrumming with high octane viciousness.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Black Flame
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
I’d heard such good things about this & I know the author is known for being amazing at what they do but for some reason it just fell short for me and I didn’t get on with it
The premise of it is what drew me in…LGBTQ+ teens being sent away to a camp for being the above & coming back a complete different person like they’d been replaced by something/an entity of themselves. It did start off really good it gave eerie vibes in places & you got the feeling of something dark happening but i kept feeling lost with it! It made me feel like I’d maybe missed a bit a few times but skipping back, I hadn’t.
Perhaps it was too many characters to follow with similar names too, Cheryl and Shelby confused me so many times 😬
I just didn’t enjoy it, I was waiting for it all to come together and blow me away & it just didn’t. Also the narrator for Gabe was absolutely awful, the pauses between each word was stressful. I even put it on 2x speed at one point and he still spaced the words out 🫣
I’d give it 2.5/3⭐️ for the prologue that I did enjoy but it just wasn’t for me unfortunately
Not for me
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