The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

by Kim Fu

"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy,agrippingand deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island.But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home.The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore tracesthese fivegirls--Nita, Kayla, Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan--through and beyond this fateful trip. We see them through successes and failures, loving relationships and heartbreaks; we see what it means to find, and define, oneself, and the ways in which the same experience is refracted through different people. In diamond-sharpprose, Kim Fu gives us a portrait of friendship and of the families we build for ourselves--and the pasts we can't escape"--

"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come"--

• ISBN10: 0544098269
• ISBN13: 9780544098268
• Publish Date: 13 February 2018
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harper
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[readingwithwrin]

3.5 stars

Thank you to Legend Press for the free review copy in exchange for my honest review.

May Contain Spoilers

A Group of young girls is suddenly left to their own devices on a kayaking trip after a tragedy happens. With them far away from their original destination and no idea how to get home they most depend on one another to get out alive. Told in multiple different perspectives and age ranges we get to see what they went through during those days lost at camp, and how it affects their lives forever.

Overall I did enjoy this book. The characters were interesting and I liked how we got to see them as adults after having had this childhood trauma. Getting to see each girl’s life after the trauma that they experienced while at the camp was interesting. It affected some more than others and you could really see that, especially when it came to the flashbacks and how they remembered what happened. One thing I was very disappointed by though is how little we actually got of the girls as children at the camp. We learn about what happened to them through the flashbacks that they each had and you piece it together as the story goes. Now while we do get to see things from each girls perspective there were a few I just didn’t really care for. Namely the first one as I found it so strange compared to all of the other ones, as it really had nothing much to add to the story itself. I did really enjoy the last two though as they went together nicely and were actually connected to each other in more ways than just the camp.

Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore is a story that gets better the farther into it you read. The more you get to know each character and piece together what happened to them the more interesting it gets.

If you love multiperspective books that focus on both Adult and YA life then this is the book for you.

[elvinagb]

A great read but I was rather unsatisfied with the last chapter. Ending a book is hard and the ending of this kind of left me feeling 'meh'.