Camp Damascus

I've never read any of Dr. Tingle's other books, so I came into this blind other than knowing it was about a conversion therapy camp. The first third started off strong, but it kinda flew off the rails after that. The prose is quite good, but the overall plotting and pace is all over the place. There's really only any character development to the main character (and kinda for one side character), but most of it happens between the many timeskips in the book. It also stops being a horror book after the first third except for the last 50 pages or so.

It was a good book, and I don't regret reading it, but the hype around it led me to expect something more. It felt more like a YA novel than anything else.

I was compelled to finish this book. The prose is great, the story is solid, and you're right there with Rose, trying to figure out what's wrong.

Well, WHAT is wrong is obvious to the reader, but more the WHY.

I've never read any of Chuck Tingle's work before, but I think i can make some time for a couple more.

Pete Bend: homosexuality is a sin and it's morally appropriate to torture and brain was teenagers about it.

Patchid: I literally do not know you????

Perfect queer horror that's about the horror of being queer in evangelical America. Thank you Dr. Chuck Tingle.