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A review by theenchantedlibrary
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
2.0
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu weaves together a tale of 5 girls from their time at a sleep-away camp all the way through to adulthood. After an incident at Camp Forevermore, these girls have only themselves to rely on in order to make it home.
Initially I had musings of this being akin to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but I came to realize that The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore is an entirely separate entity. Upon being introduced to our main characters, Fu is able to capture the young innocent ages of the girls as they attend camp and shows the changes in the years following that fateful summer.
After reading the synopsis, I was immediately drawn in and intrigued to take an amazing journey through the lives of these 5 girls. To get to know them, to grow with them, to truly invest in what became of our fateful five. I smiled to myself as I read how Fu described camp and the different groups who attended because I could genuinely picture it all, even though I had never attended a proper summer camp.
That being said, I did find that a few things did not flow properly for me while reading and left me with a constant feeling that I had missed something entirely. The pacing was sporadic and jumped between extremely different thoughts within the span of a page which was jarring. This very well could be a style of writing that works for some people but it was too much in the vein of ‘stream of consciousness’ for me to fully invest in what was happening as it kept taking me out of the story.
The premise behind the story is extremely intriguing and taking on 5 different perspectives/points of view is a large undertaking in this type of book. Still, this is the kind of story that I can see a group of young girls reading and looking for parts of themselves in each of the characters.
Initially I had musings of this being akin to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but I came to realize that The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore is an entirely separate entity. Upon being introduced to our main characters, Fu is able to capture the young innocent ages of the girls as they attend camp and shows the changes in the years following that fateful summer.
After reading the synopsis, I was immediately drawn in and intrigued to take an amazing journey through the lives of these 5 girls. To get to know them, to grow with them, to truly invest in what became of our fateful five. I smiled to myself as I read how Fu described camp and the different groups who attended because I could genuinely picture it all, even though I had never attended a proper summer camp.
That being said, I did find that a few things did not flow properly for me while reading and left me with a constant feeling that I had missed something entirely. The pacing was sporadic and jumped between extremely different thoughts within the span of a page which was jarring. This very well could be a style of writing that works for some people but it was too much in the vein of ‘stream of consciousness’ for me to fully invest in what was happening as it kept taking me out of the story.
The premise behind the story is extremely intriguing and taking on 5 different perspectives/points of view is a large undertaking in this type of book. Still, this is the kind of story that I can see a group of young girls reading and looking for parts of themselves in each of the characters.