This really didn’t live up to my expectations at all and it basically took me forever to get through the audiobook despite having the audio sped up by a lot — it was simply just too slow paced, had too many characters and focused too much on period sex for me to really immerse myself in the story? 

The whole idea of ‘what if there’s something more sinister going on at a conversion camp and the queer kids have to save themselves and ultimately humanity by fighting back’ is pretty decent and I really liked that in Chuck Tingle’s Camp Damascus. The way it was done with Cuckoo just didn’t do it for me. Which is a shame cos I LOVED Manhunt and I think Gretchen Felker-Martin is pretty great at writing messed up queer horror stories.

Cuckoo ultimately wasn’t for me but if you’re looking for a story that’s essentially a queer coming of age invasion of the body snatchers then it might be just your thing. Because it’s pretty damn gay in basically every single way — and it has some pretty sweet disturbing body horror moments too!