Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.
My choice for this week is a new horror tale from the author of Manhunt (which was amazing!), that sounds reminiscent of Camp Damascus (which was also amazing).
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Adult, Horror
Paperback and eBook, 320 pages
June 11, 2024 by Tor Nightfire
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of kidnapped kids try to stay true to themselves while serving time in a conversion camp from hell.
In the late 90s, five queer kids, whose parents want them “fixed,” find themselves thrown together at a secretive “tough love” camp deep in the scorching Utah desert.
Tormented and worked to the point of collapse by hardline religious zealots intent on straightening them out, they slowly become aware that something in the mountains north of the camp is speaking to them in their dreams, and that the children who return home to their families have…changed.
