It’s unclear who amongst the campers and staff can be trusted to plan and execute their escape. Once at the conversion therapy camp, Conner works on unravelling several secrets and mysteries. The action in Surrender Your Sons unfolds quickly. But through Connor Major’s journey, Sass demonstrates the confusion and feeling of betrayal when you’re rejected. It’s easy as a straight cis man to take for granted that family and friends will be accepting and supportive. Surrender Your Sons also does a great job of showing the high stakes of coming out. He builds tension, suspense and mystery through those flashback chapters, which carries over to the present timeline. In Surrender Your Sons, Adam Sass does a great job of weaving in backstory through multiple timelines in a way that doesn’t come off as an info dump. All of my comments and opinions reflected here are my own. I was privileged to receive a complimentary advance reading copy.

I was so excited by it that I added it to my list of Most Anticipated YA Books of 2020. Surrender Your Sons has an amazing premise. It follows a group of teens who rebel against the leaders of a conversion therapy camp on a tiny Central American island and plan their escape. Surrender Your Sons, by debut novelist Adam Sass, is a horrifying mystery/thriller with a lot of heart. summing up: do I recommend this book? ABSOLUTELY, I'm begging you, please go read this as soon as you can. Brigs has an amazing redemption arc, I started hating him and ended pitying him and I think he even made me cry at some point. How he deals with anxiety and tries to control it and fails sometimes it's, as I said, very realistic. It's great to see how he uses humor as a coping mechanism, it's probably the most relatable thing I've read on thrillers book. The characters are great and I love how Connor lives everything. Also, I've never read a book set in a conversion therapy camp and even tho I'd like to see more about the camp itself I found it fascinating. Since the moment it starts I just wanted to know more and more, and at the same time I wanted to protect all the children. It also deals with depression and anxiety in a very realistic way.Īpart from that the story was great, most of the thrillers start really slow and it can be little boring, however, this book is wild from beginning to end. And one thing I loved about it was that they don't speak Spanish randomly in order for you to know they are latinx, I really appreciate that. It has all kind of LGBT representation as well as Lantinx character. It's not easy to read, and I had to stop a lot because I needed to process all that was happening but it was totally worth it. This book was absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed every single page of it. Surrender your sons was one of my most anticipated 2020 releases so when NetGalley send me the 'The Publisher has granted your wish' message I almost cried.

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass