Cuckoo

De: Gretchen Felker-Martin

Narrado por: Amy Landon, Avi Roque, Grace Rolek, Kirt Graves, Nicky Endres, Sena Bryer, Zeno Robinson, Zim Avaltrades

This program features multicast narration.

From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.

"A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin.

In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived—but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.

Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it's too late.

The fate of the world depends on it.

“Tense and frighteningly visceral, Cuckoo is a masterwork of body horror thrumming with high octane viciousness.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Black Flame

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

Amazing

I love how Gretchen's writing makes me feel like vomiting crying and laughing at the same time.

Visceral. Stunning. Life affirming. An absolute masterpiece she’s done it again!

I loved every moment of this novel. I read manhunt first and I think fans of that book are in for an absolute treat with Cuckoo. The way she’s able to thread together these lines of trauma and love and pain and hope and fear together into this beautiful, horrifying, life affirming ripped tapestry of being Trans in America will never cease to amaze me.

A Kind of Changeling Story

It's gory, wrenching tale of queer survival. It's hard to praise it without spoiling the twists, but the protagonists and monsters feel grounded and fully realized. The horror is both scary in an edge-of-your-seat way and in a deeper way. it's a horror story for an age when so many of the horrors are right there in the open and we all face the question of what we're willing to sacrifice to fight them. Also, she writes great fat queer sex scenes.

Excellent, scary and ambitious

I enjoyed Manhunt enough to make this an instant buy when it released. It hits the horror, heart, and humor (no really! It's dry, but it's there!) just as well or better than that title did. The cast give it their all as these poor kids drag themselves through a gory, paranoid, claustrophobic nightmare of a story. Felker-Martin shows she can shift genre from near-future dystopia to near-past fantasy without missing a beat.

Oops

Whelp, I will be honest. I purchased this book by accident. Stupidly, I thought it was something else. However, I still enjoyed it. It has a great story and fantastic characters.