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Bezig met laden... Atonement Camp for Unrepentant Homophobes (2020)door Evan J. Corbin
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The oldest translation of a Gospel is returned to the world by a secret society long dedicated to its preservation. In it, Jesus explicitly condemns bigotry and homophobia. In a new world in which LGBTQ passengers receive preferential boarding for flights and the United States has elected its first lesbian President, Pastor Rick Harris is stalwart, closeted preacher who doggedly holds onto his increasingly unpopular convictions.When an incendiary sermon goes too far and offends an influential family, Rick makes a painful choice to keep his job: He attends an atonement camp run by drag queens for society's most unrepentant and terminally incurable homophobes.Atonement Camp is immersion therapy for Pastor Harris, and it might be working. An open bar with pedicures, a devastatingly attractive roommate and an endless supply of glitter help him manage to make new friends. Soon, Rick and his cohorts learn the camp may hold its own secrets. Amid the smiling faces and scantily clad pool boys who staff the camp, a clandestine group plots to discredit the New Revelation and everything it stands for.If Rick has the conviction to confront his own hypocrisy, he might be able to uncover the conspirators with help from his adopted flock-and find new truths within himself. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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[I have talked with the author themself and they completely understood my sentiment about this already but some people still don’t understand so I’m going to repeat it: I LIKED and AGREE with the way other people reacted to Rick but being in Rick’s mindset, as he is the main character was extremely triggering to me personally. The title being the title is not enough of a warning, BUT I am happy that the author took this in stride and said that they would place trigger warnings in the upcoming publications and the website.
It is not my intention to force a negative perspective on this book but I was triggered for personal reasons and it’s possible that other people might be too.]
tw: main character starts off with a toxic mindset towards religion and the gay community, homophobia, negative depictions on Christianity
DNF @21%
The reason I am dnf-ing this is because I just felt extremely uncomfortable reading about the trigger warnings above. I did not know those going in and I hope anyone who reads this book in the future would be aware of those.
For an overview of the beginning of the story: Rick is a pastor and basically he's homophobic. So his upper ranks decided to send him to this atonement camp that deals with, well, homophobes.
It's really not a bad premise but I personally was just comfortable being in his head, having to deal with those kind of negative and toxic thoughts. Perhaps Rick's mindset will be treated throughout the rest of the book. Rick has a lot of room for character development so that's still interesting, I just can't continue reading the story from the point of view of a character that looks at my own religion in a way that I don't agree with.
Again, this probably gets solved later on but I am just not in a place to read it.
*Thank you to the author for sending me an ARC to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*