Review: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu (February 13, 2018  / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 

Goodreads Summary:

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 traces these five girls—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-sharp prose, Kim Fu gives us a portrait of friendship and of the families we build for ourselves—and the pasts we can't escape.

My Review:

Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies. 5 young girls at sleep away camp are stranded in the woods. They are not friends and their wilderness knowledge is minimal. The storyline jumps back and forth between their time at camp and their present lives to show how this experience affects them all differently. The structure of the book was a bit difficult with the back and forth timelines and different characters all presented with no pattern. I liked this book but I didn't find anything about it that was particularly praiseworthy. I read it on a flight and it was nice to pass the time.