A review by justanotherfinalgirlreview
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

Warning 1.
Gory, fleshy, goo filled body horror fest! If you aren’t a big fan of paragraph after paragraph of intense body horror  written about in-depth with highly descriptive language this may not be the book for you!!

Warning 2. 
If you’re homophobic or transphobic or can’t tolerate reading about LGBTQIA people this isn’t the book for you as it’s full of trans, gay and lesbian characters!

A cross between
- invasion of the body snatchers (1956)(1978)
- camp Damascus by Chuck tingle(2023)
- inside out by Lor gislarson (2022)
- The Blob (1958) (1988)

A Christian reform camp takes your problem children who exhibit undesirable sexual orientation, gender identity confusion or other issues for three months and returns them to you a new more respectful, obedient and physically fit version of themselves. A child that is a productive and caring member of your community, church congregation and household rather than the delinquent child that you sent away.  Is it too good to be true? Is this really your child or has your child been replaced with a better looking, better behaved and altogether better being and is not your child at all?

A group of LGBTQIA+ teens are about to find out what family really means and what they must to in order to live their lives as their true selfs. In order to not be replaced with a copy that their family’s can love, they must fight for their lives to survive the camp’s harsh conditions, find out what is going on behind closed doors of the camp, what’s happening to fellow campers and fight for their lives to escape.