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Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.
Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes.
They have no idea how each have faired through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self-possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast university and loses her wife to another woman in rapid succession, she returns to her hometown of Rockside, Oregon to coach the girls’ basketball team at her high school alma mater.
Ernest, meanwhile, is a renowned poet in New York City who’s left behind his loving husband for a temporary teaching job in Portland, Oregon. His work has always been boundary-pushing, fearless. But the poem he’s most wanted to write—about his dangerous escape from Celebration Camp—remains stubbornly out of reach.
Both remain on a mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again, they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in one’s truth—no matter how slippery that can be. Tell the Rest is a powerful novel about coming to terms—with family, history, violence, loss, sexuality, and ultimately, with love.
Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes.
They have no idea how each have faired through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self-possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast university and loses her wife to another woman in rapid succession, she returns to her hometown of Rockside, Oregon to coach the girls’ basketball team at her high school alma mater.
Ernest, meanwhile, is a renowned poet in New York City who’s left behind his loving husband for a temporary teaching job in Portland, Oregon. His work has always been boundary-pushing, fearless. But the poem he’s most wanted to write—about his dangerous escape from Celebration Camp—remains stubbornly out of reach.
Both remain on a mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again, they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in one’s truth—no matter how slippery that can be. Tell the Rest is a powerful novel about coming to terms—with family, history, violence, loss, sexuality, and ultimately, with love.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published March 7, 2023
About the author
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
82 books133 followersPreorder Lucy's new novel, TELL THE REST, about love, rage, and redemption, at https://amzn.to/3QRyHXD. The New York Times says Lucy Jane Bledsoe's novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, "triumphs." Ms. Magazine calls her novel, THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE, "fabulous feminist fiction." Her 2018 collection of stories, LAVA FALLS, won the Devil's Kitchen Fiction Award. Bledsoe played basketball in both high school and college. As a social justice activist, she's passionate about working for voting rights.
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May 21, 2023
Unsurprisingly, this isn’t a light read. It feels like an open wound: Delia especially is still hurting so much and hasn’t gotten closure on going through conversion therapy. Eventually, though, we do see her begin to work through it, accompanied by the glimpses of the lives of the teenage girls she’s coaching.
If you like to read character studies and quiet stories about working through trauma—and trying to lead a high school girls’ basketball team to glory, because that really is a big focus—I highly recommend this one. It’s a thoughtful, sometimes painful, but effective narrative, and it’s one that’s interesting to read after books like The Miseducation of Cameron Post, because this looks at not just the immediate horror, but the aftermath of being taught to hate yourself as a young person.
Full review at the Lesbrary.
If you like to read character studies and quiet stories about working through trauma—and trying to lead a high school girls’ basketball team to glory, because that really is a big focus—I highly recommend this one. It’s a thoughtful, sometimes painful, but effective narrative, and it’s one that’s interesting to read after books like The Miseducation of Cameron Post, because this looks at not just the immediate horror, but the aftermath of being taught to hate yourself as a young person.
Full review at the Lesbrary.
February 12, 2023
This book has a lot of elements that should have made it not my thing. I tend to be very hesitant around conversion therapy stories. I don't really love protagonists who are constantly a mess and unable to get themselves together. And there are plenty of convenient characters (is literally everyone in this town from the same graduating class???) that get too much in the return-to-hometown story weeds. And yet I really enjoyed this book.
Mostly this is because Delia is great, a mess but a justifiable mess. She's just gotten divorced after her wife cheated on her and got fired from her job as a college basketball coach for her anger issues. She has accepted a job coaching the girls team at her old high school in a small Oregon town, the same team she took to the state championships as a teen. It's probably not the best decision but you understand the appeal. Seeing Delia work with her team was my favorite part of the book, you can tell she knows the game well and even as someone who has no interest in basketball I was so interested in how Delia made decisions and interacted with her players.
Having basketball as the center of the book is what makes the conversion therapy story work. It is a part of Delia's history, a terrible thing that happened to her, and Basketball was what she clung to after she had nothing else left. Delia is not a totally broken person, she hasn't been destroyed, she's built herself a decent life. But not fully confronting her past has left her stalled.
Ernest, our secondary protagonist, escaped from the camp with Delia but they never saw each other again. He is a poet, in Oregon for a temporary teaching position, recognizing that the camp nearby is pulling on him and that there is a poem he has not been able to write yet. While Delia has most of the story, having Ernest's perspective intertwined with hers can break us out of Delia's head and remind us of where they're both going.
The conversion therapy itself is awful, most of what is on the page is speech rather than violence. It does involve suicide, sexual coercion, and trauma. We see these scenes in flashbacks, they don't make up a large percentage of the book. And it helps that Delia, Ernest, and their friendship with another child, Cal, is the focus, on how they lean on each other and get through. Ernest and Delia had very different responses to their experience, especially in how they view God and religion. I liked the way Bledsoe let Delia grapple with this through a tumultuous relationship with a new pastor of the church Delia grew up in who is anxious to make amends. The book recognizes the harm religion has done and continues to do but also recognizes the many ways queer people can partake in spiritual things without being pushy.
The characters are complex and the story isn't always simple and I loved that.
Mostly this is because Delia is great, a mess but a justifiable mess. She's just gotten divorced after her wife cheated on her and got fired from her job as a college basketball coach for her anger issues. She has accepted a job coaching the girls team at her old high school in a small Oregon town, the same team she took to the state championships as a teen. It's probably not the best decision but you understand the appeal. Seeing Delia work with her team was my favorite part of the book, you can tell she knows the game well and even as someone who has no interest in basketball I was so interested in how Delia made decisions and interacted with her players.
Having basketball as the center of the book is what makes the conversion therapy story work. It is a part of Delia's history, a terrible thing that happened to her, and Basketball was what she clung to after she had nothing else left. Delia is not a totally broken person, she hasn't been destroyed, she's built herself a decent life. But not fully confronting her past has left her stalled.
Ernest, our secondary protagonist, escaped from the camp with Delia but they never saw each other again. He is a poet, in Oregon for a temporary teaching position, recognizing that the camp nearby is pulling on him and that there is a poem he has not been able to write yet. While Delia has most of the story, having Ernest's perspective intertwined with hers can break us out of Delia's head and remind us of where they're both going.
The conversion therapy itself is awful, most of what is on the page is speech rather than violence. It does involve suicide, sexual coercion, and trauma. We see these scenes in flashbacks, they don't make up a large percentage of the book. And it helps that Delia, Ernest, and their friendship with another child, Cal, is the focus, on how they lean on each other and get through. Ernest and Delia had very different responses to their experience, especially in how they view God and religion. I liked the way Bledsoe let Delia grapple with this through a tumultuous relationship with a new pastor of the church Delia grew up in who is anxious to make amends. The book recognizes the harm religion has done and continues to do but also recognizes the many ways queer people can partake in spiritual things without being pushy.
The characters are complex and the story isn't always simple and I loved that.
July 14, 2023
I was not expecting this novel to hit me the way it did. Chronicling the adult lives of two queer folks who met at a conversion therapy camp, Tell The Rest forces us to look at the lasting effects of religious intolerance & queerphobia in the American landscape. Such a vital read currently, as this country continues to roll back protections of queer & trans folks— and attempts to erase any mention of marginalized identities within the classroom. Tell The Rest is a story of survival— and a reminder to never be silent.
February 9, 2023
(2.5)
Rep: lesbian mc, Black gay mc, nonbinary side character
CWs: conversion therapy, homophobia, racism, transphobia
Rep: lesbian mc, Black gay mc, nonbinary side character
CWs: conversion therapy, homophobia, racism, transphobia
Shelved as 'did-not-finish'
April 21, 2023Just couldn’t get into it
April 28, 2023
Totally enjoyed this book. Felt many emotions, which to me registers high on my approval scale.
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May 6, 2023Not quite the book the blurb lead me to believe it would be, but still interesting. The religious trauma aspects rang a bit hollow, especially in contrast to the author's obvious passion for basketball.
May 31, 2023
This story is set up with two characters' present povs interspersed with flashbacks to their experiences at a religious conversion therapy camp. Delia's pov overpowered Ernest's to that point that I don't think we gain much from seeing his. I was often bored during Ernest's sections (he gets very attached to cats and struggles to write a poem about the traumatic camp experience, pretty much sums up most of what we learn from those chapters), and I don't think they really added to the story. The very quiet nature of these sections also fed into the overall anticlimactic feeling I experienced when the two characters were finally in the same place again. I much preferred the way we learned about Cal in the story, a character whose presence felt much heavier than Ernest's despite not getting updates on his life throughout the book. In my opinion, the greatest strength of this book is the basketball story where we see Delia evolve and grow along with the high school basketball team players. In comparison, the conversations on religion felt a bit forced and disconnected. I just don't think the components fit together very well, which left me not feeling satisfied by the ending. Definitely enjoyed parts of the story, but I think the concept could have been better executed.
February 25, 2023
I was lucky to receive an early copy of this book from the publicist and it turned out to be such a wonderful surprise. This book really hooked me and I'm so happy to recommend it!
What interested me in the beginning was the backstory of two characters who were forced to attend a Christian Conversion camp for LGBTQ youth. The flashbacks to Delia and Ernest's time at Celebration Camp are intense and paced beautifully as they lead up to a harrowing climax.
But what kept me hooked was honestly the high school basketball angle. I'm a sucker for sports stories and Delia's coaching job was a much bigger part of the story than I anticipated. For me, this was a welcome surprise.
I enjoyed following Ernest and Delia as adults as they try to wrestle with the trauma from their past while dealing with complications in their present lives. While Ernest is our second protagonist, most of the chapters are written from Delia's perspective and this very much felt like her story.
While there were a few times I felt the writing fell a bit flat, those times were few. What clinched this being 5 stars for me was the last chapter, which I was not at all expecting but it made me emotional.
A great read especially if you enjoy literary fiction, complex and messy characters, religion/LGBTQ themes, and high school basketball!
What interested me in the beginning was the backstory of two characters who were forced to attend a Christian Conversion camp for LGBTQ youth. The flashbacks to Delia and Ernest's time at Celebration Camp are intense and paced beautifully as they lead up to a harrowing climax.
But what kept me hooked was honestly the high school basketball angle. I'm a sucker for sports stories and Delia's coaching job was a much bigger part of the story than I anticipated. For me, this was a welcome surprise.
I enjoyed following Ernest and Delia as adults as they try to wrestle with the trauma from their past while dealing with complications in their present lives. While Ernest is our second protagonist, most of the chapters are written from Delia's perspective and this very much felt like her story.
While there were a few times I felt the writing fell a bit flat, those times were few. What clinched this being 5 stars for me was the last chapter, which I was not at all expecting but it made me emotional.
A great read especially if you enjoy literary fiction, complex and messy characters, religion/LGBTQ themes, and high school basketball!
April 16, 2023
This book was an enjoyable, easy read. I was drawn to it by the reviews and blurbs that indicated it was a story about conversion camp. However, that was really the backstory for the two main characters. The book is primarily about Delia and her return to her hometown to become the high school basketball coach after she is fired from the same job at a Division III college. The town is clearly small since everyone seemed to have grown up with Delia and remembered her days playing on the championship team at the same school. She clearly has anger management issues, which are never directly tied back to the conversion camp and the pastor who sent her there. The chapters alternate with the story of Ernest, a friend she made at the camp who becomes a famous poet.
I enjoyed reading about the girls on Delia’s basketball team and how they learn to work together to really become a team, even if that means forfeiting the championship game. It just seemed like there were too many unnecessary characters and side stories that didn’t really add anything. The book wasn’t particularly well written and could have used a good edit as I found numerous mistakes. Not a great book, but a decent story. The author is prolific and I plan to check out some of her other novels.
I enjoyed reading about the girls on Delia’s basketball team and how they learn to work together to really become a team, even if that means forfeiting the championship game. It just seemed like there were too many unnecessary characters and side stories that didn’t really add anything. The book wasn’t particularly well written and could have used a good edit as I found numerous mistakes. Not a great book, but a decent story. The author is prolific and I plan to check out some of her other novels.
July 9, 2023
I thought this book was very good -- and I know next to nothing about basketball.
The central characters are believable and I wanted to know more about their stories from the beginning. I was a bit confused about why and how Delia wound up back in her hometown until I concluded that she had been invited to coach women's basketball at her alma mater. I do have one question about that: she didn't have to teach anything else? Don't high school coaches normally teach several PE or other classes as well as coaching a sport?
I love Ernest's trouble with Audre Lorde, and am glad that she didn't fall prey to the numerous predators around Portland. (Yes, they have coyotes, bobcats, hawks, and owls there.) Smart moggy.
Conversion camp sounds particularly awful, taking already-vulnerable adolescents and trying to make them hate themselves so much that they will bend to what the institution wants them to make of themselves. About as productive as taking a kid with blue eyes and telling them that if they pray enough and work on their emotions they can make their eyes brown. Not happening.
I hope Delia and Ernest eventually find Cal.
The central characters are believable and I wanted to know more about their stories from the beginning. I was a bit confused about why and how Delia wound up back in her hometown until I concluded that she had been invited to coach women's basketball at her alma mater. I do have one question about that: she didn't have to teach anything else? Don't high school coaches normally teach several PE or other classes as well as coaching a sport?
I love Ernest's trouble with Audre Lorde, and am glad that she didn't fall prey to the numerous predators around Portland. (Yes, they have coyotes, bobcats, hawks, and owls there.) Smart moggy.
Conversion camp sounds particularly awful, taking already-vulnerable adolescents and trying to make them hate themselves so much that they will bend to what the institution wants them to make of themselves. About as productive as taking a kid with blue eyes and telling them that if they pray enough and work on their emotions they can make their eyes brown. Not happening.
I hope Delia and Ernest eventually find Cal.
March 20, 2023
As a teenager Delia was sent away one summer to an anti-gay, conversion therapy camp, an overwhelmingly traumatizing experience. Now, many years later, after having been let go from her position as head coach for a college basketball team, Delia returns to her childhood home in Oregon to coach her old high school team. But coming home will also mean facing people, events, places and emotions from the past.
I was skeptical for the first chapter or two, because I initially detected more "tell" than "show" in the narrative and grew concerned. However, Bledsoe soon found her stride, and by mid-point I was fully engrossed. There is a fair amount of pain and trauma, but there are an equal number of moments of hope and inspiration. Religious bigots may have an abysmal record for successful conversions, but they certainly reign undefeated in cruelty.
I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
I was skeptical for the first chapter or two, because I initially detected more "tell" than "show" in the narrative and grew concerned. However, Bledsoe soon found her stride, and by mid-point I was fully engrossed. There is a fair amount of pain and trauma, but there are an equal number of moments of hope and inspiration. Religious bigots may have an abysmal record for successful conversions, but they certainly reign undefeated in cruelty.
I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
March 21, 2023
Huh. I think this book, for me, was incredibly misleading. The blurb and reviews indicated that this was a conversion camp story. While there are certainly elements of that and it forms the backstory of our two protagonists, I wouldn't say this book is about conversion therapy. Don't get me wrong, there is a beauty in not highlighting the terrible features of conversion therapy because we all know what goes on there. I think, however, this is a classic case of managing expectations. To me, this was a basketball story. The author, really leaned into that so much so that it became the entire emphasis of the book. I also had an issue with the fact that this book boasts that our two protagonists are on a crash course back towards each other. Not accurate. In fact, we barely got one of the protagonists, so his inclusion in the story felt like an afterthought.
Overall, it was fine - it just wasn't great.
Overall, it was fine - it just wasn't great.
July 23, 2023
Whenever I see a book that tackles religious trauma head on, I can’t help but gravitate towards it hoping some of my own experience is reflected on the page. Not because I hope others suffered, but because as much as I know others have I don’t often meet people who are willing to acknowledge the hurt the church has caused. I either meet people who double down on the hurt being deserved or people who pretend the hurt doesn’t happen because their relationship with God is nothing like that. I’ve met good church goers and bad - but like the characters in this book the bad experiences have left me lost in what my relationship is to religion and the God they serve.
This book does a great job of depicting this struggle through the eyes of two adults who were forcibly admitted to a conversion therapy camp. They reckon with their lives, their friendship, and the survival trauma from such a horrific summer.
This book does a great job of depicting this struggle through the eyes of two adults who were forcibly admitted to a conversion therapy camp. They reckon with their lives, their friendship, and the survival trauma from such a horrific summer.
February 8, 2023
I liked this a lot and kept trying to snatch a few minutes to read it during my workday. While the writing isn't always great, I loved the psychology and complexity of it, the exploration of how a summer of abuse can affect someone's whole life and what might be going on when someone seems constantly about to explode. I liked how Delia was always making moral choices, and she usually chose wrong, but the choices weren't at all obvious, and you could see the deliberation and good intentions. I was often on the fence between seeing her as a good person having a hard time and crossing that line into not actually liking her. I liked that the author showed us a bit of Ernest's life as well but thought it was smart of her to focus mainly on Delia, since she isn't as qualified to write from the perspective of a Black man.
*Thanks to Akashic Press for mailing me an ARC.*
*Thanks to Akashic Press for mailing me an ARC.*
March 14, 2023
When I first started this book I was hooked. But I also had to put it down because it was emotional from the start. When I picked it up again to start reading again I thought it was a different book. It was more cold. Because Delia had grown up and was so, removed. She had rage and sex but it seemed like it was someone else rather than her own emotions.
As the author introduced characters and pieces of Delia came into view I felt I understood why we had such an abrupt change from that child at the beginning to the woman we were learning about.
This was heartbreaking, endearing, frustrating and I at times, wanted to throw the book and hug almost all the characters. It made me ask, how do we hate so thoroughly while spouting righteousness. How do we hurt each other so easily.
The last chapter of this book crushed me.
As the author introduced characters and pieces of Delia came into view I felt I understood why we had such an abrupt change from that child at the beginning to the woman we were learning about.
This was heartbreaking, endearing, frustrating and I at times, wanted to throw the book and hug almost all the characters. It made me ask, how do we hate so thoroughly while spouting righteousness. How do we hurt each other so easily.
The last chapter of this book crushed me.
July 24, 2023
Update: Rounded down to 2 after further consideration. The “reveal” of who was taunting the city manager’s family and playing the long game to derail the teams victory? As I tell my teenager, Delia was giving someone else way too much credit, not everyone makes decisions based on you! And why would Jonas have been seeming to protect him?
2.5 rounded up because I wanted it to be better, so I kept reading. Delia is highly competitive when it comes to basketball, has a plan, says it saved her life. But her actions off court imply she hasn’t yet overcome the trauma of her childhood, that we learn in flashbacks to camp where she escaped with Ernest. Then we meet Ernest, a sensitive cat-loving poet also still struggling with conversion camp and abuse. I hoped for a more meaningful interaction between the two when the stories converged; for all the details of basketball, we received few when it comes to really dealing with people and emotions, kinda skimming the surface. Could have been better. Happy for Cal at the end.
2.5 rounded up because I wanted it to be better, so I kept reading. Delia is highly competitive when it comes to basketball, has a plan, says it saved her life. But her actions off court imply she hasn’t yet overcome the trauma of her childhood, that we learn in flashbacks to camp where she escaped with Ernest. Then we meet Ernest, a sensitive cat-loving poet also still struggling with conversion camp and abuse. I hoped for a more meaningful interaction between the two when the stories converged; for all the details of basketball, we received few when it comes to really dealing with people and emotions, kinda skimming the surface. Could have been better. Happy for Cal at the end.
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December 7, 2023
Even though I grew up in a time less enlightened than now, it has always amazed me that anyone could have believed conversion therapy could turn gay people into straight people. However, there have been and probably still are people who believe in this. This novel takes a look at gay teens who were sent to conversion therapy camps and the psychological warfare used at these camps. The novel also looks at the adult lives of some of the people who survived these camps.
The main pushers of conversion therapy were religious people who were absolutely disgusted by homosexuality. I am not religious, so I have no qualms with calling religions out, but the author takes pains to show religious people who thoughtfully struggled with their beliefs.
The main pushers of conversion therapy were religious people who were absolutely disgusted by homosexuality. I am not religious, so I have no qualms with calling religions out, but the author takes pains to show religious people who thoughtfully struggled with their beliefs.
February 7, 2023
Virtually unputdownable. And I cried happy tears at the end. Compelling characters and effective pacing. Also it shows rather than merely telling that friendship, love, compassion, are more important than respect for authority, which is a very good moral indeed.
(NB: I read an advance reading copy given to me by the book's publisher.)
CN: enormous amounts of homophobia, including so called "conversion therapy", slurs, and abuse; religious coercion; rape and sexual coercion; child abuse of multiple kinds; violence; suicide; bullying; defiant child treated unfairly by adults; a cat .
(NB: I read an advance reading copy given to me by the book's publisher.)
CN: enormous amounts of homophobia, including so called "conversion therapy", slurs, and abuse; religious coercion; rape and sexual coercion; child abuse of multiple kinds; violence; suicide; bullying; defiant child treated unfairly by adults; a cat .
May 16, 2023
This book is well-written on a prose level. The characters are flawed in unique ways and emotional scenes carry weight. The exploration of living with trauma and damage that conservative Christianity causes, within conversion camp and outside of it, to individuals and communities are poignant. However, the structure of the book weakens it. The narrative splits between two primary characters, but not evenly. The result is that there is too little focus on an equally important voice to the narrative.
July 1, 2023
In this absorbing page-turner, two survivors of a Christian conversion therapy camp for teens grapple with the aftereffects of early trauma. Both now proudly out queer adults, and successful in their respective careers, Delia and Ernest have lost touch with each other but remain haunted by the past. The novel’s propulsive plot — Will Delia and Ernest reconnect? How will they resolve pressing life and relationship troubles? What dramatic loss prompted them to flee the camp so many years ago? — is matched by the warmth, depth, humor, and sensitivity Bledsoe brings to her indelible characters.
February 11, 2023
This is a great read about a Christian conversion camp. At first I was worried that it would just completely bash faith - (as a therapist, I’ve tried to help many LGBTQ folks find church & faith communities that ARENT bigoted) - but then the author did a great job with a very likeable open pastor character. A complex & troubling look at how damaging conservative religion can be to queer youth. Definitely worth reading.
March 3, 2023
I love Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s new novel Tell the Rest for the same reason I love all of her writing—her people feel like my people. Few novelists can get to the essence of a character as sharply and beautifully as she does. The book’s theme of exposing the devastation that conversion therapy does to young people is tremendously important in this time of attacks on LGBTQ lives and liberties. But it’s the people you’ll love, root for every step of the way, and remember.
March 6, 2023
A heart wrenching and beautiful story of friendship and community. Delia and Ernest meet as teens at a church supported conversion therapy camp. That horrific experience both scarred and bonded them for life, despite going their own ways and losing track of each other. The book is told through their present day lives, flashbacks, basketball, and poetry. Fast paced, and compelling, this (at times) chilling story is told with grace and compassion.
July 6, 2023
On the plus side, the novel is engaging, and the author hits the mark thematically…I’m with her all the way. Unfortunately, I found some of the story to be not very believable…would the situations she describes really play out in these ways (I don’t want to give anything away)? Also, several seemingly important characters are inadequately developed…why are they even here? I credit the author with good intentions and a good premise…the execution could be better.
October 30, 2023
Kind of a mixed bag in terms of how the plot got executed, but I loved these characters - they all felt real and complex especially in how they wrestled with their various traumas and dilemmas. I wished for more time with Ernest especially - the summary makes it sound like he and Delia will dramatically collide at some point but they get very little "on screen" time together.
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March 3, 20233.5 stars
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March 20, 2023
A great premise and awful execution. Too many things happening with not enough resolution.
April 14, 2023
More like 3.5. A pretty good, fast read.
April 15, 2023
Interesting characters that grew on me. Has a strong religious tone of trying to reconcile faith with horrible things that happened to kids in the 1980s in conversion therapy under church auspices.
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