Guest Post: B.R. Collins on Homophobia in The Traitor Game

Stopping by today is the awesome B.R. Collins, to talk about her novel The Traitor Game and homophobia.

After I’d written The Traitor Game, it occurred to me that it might be out of date. I wrote it when I was twenty-four, remembering what life was like when I was fourteen – and because of that, there were things that may now seem quaint and outdated. One of the reviews, for example, commented on the fact that the boys create their world on paper and not on a computer. Some of the language and other things might be a bit old too. (I guess I need a teenager to tell me, really. Comments on a postcard welcome. Oh no, wait. Email. Not sure I’ll ever get the hang of this.)

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Review: The Traitor Game by B. R. Collins

The Traitor Game by B. R. Collins (review copy) - WARNING! I cannot discuss the LGBTQ themes in this book without soiling certain aspects of it. Read no further if you're planning on reading this book and don't want it spoilt for you. 

There was a folded bit of A4 paper wedged into the locker. It said MICHAEL THOMPSON. Michael slid it out, and flipped it open. It said I KNOW WHERE ARCASTER IS. That was when the bottom dropped out of everything.

Michael and Francis are best friends at school, drawn together by their common secret - a complete obsession with creating, crafting, adding to and poring over their joint fantasy world, Evgard. Their friendship is put to the severest test when Michael, thinking that Francis has betrayed their world, takes the cold, deliberate decision not to help Francis when Francis is the victim of a brutal attack. Michael then has to see the consequences of his mistake, and confront his own weaknesses. This absolutely compelling charting of the boys' friendship is reflected in the fantasy world, as the fantasy characters and their actions are a clear mirror of the boys' own actions in the real world. From Amazon UK

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