Mason Thomas's Reviews > Tell the Rest

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.