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rainbowbrarian 's review for:
Bury Your Gays
by Chuck Tingle
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Friends, this book was awesome. Big thanks to @netgalley and @torbooks for letting me read this ARC copy!
Bury Your Gays is a tale of a queer writer, Misha, trying to keep his characters alive in Hollywood where the execs only care about numbers and profits and say the only queer stories worth telling are the ones that end tragically. When he's given an ultimatum to kill off his queer characters in their season finale he puts his foot down and refuses. Soon after weird creepy things start happening to him. Characters from his horror stories start appearing in real life. How far will "The Board" go to force him to step back in line?
Like Camp Damascus before this, Chuck Tingle has written a fantastic horror tale. I love the way he has of taking a story you think you know and upending it to give it a new twist. You really feel for Misha, who is sort of out, but sort of not, especially not to folks back home in Montana. His boyfriend Zeke doesn't get a lot of development, but is a great supporting character anyway. His best friend Tara, the aro ace techie friend from work is AWESOME. I love her fashion and her attitude and things that I won't tell you because spoilers, but dang, she's one of the best things about this story, I'd read more of her story any day.
Favorite Parts: any scene with Tara - also her tech data privacy paranoia is awesome, all the little homages to TV tropes and shows that are worked through the story, the genuine creepy factors in the monsters we get to see.
Read this if you: Are 9,000% done with the "Bury Your Gays trope", Love horror movies, Liked Chuck Tingle's last book "Camp Damascus", don't mind some gore.
TW: horror movie style gore, mention of childhood abuse/neglect, homophobia
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Homophobia, Blood, Stalking
Moderate: Child abuse