Plus her being the outsider in the elite, well-to-do crowd. She’s afraid that her friends – Ava and Imogen – among the others in the elite camp, will judge her and suffers from the anxiety and depression of all the events that transpired. However, not only is she ostracized for one huge secret, which has layers to the actual truth of events, but she deliberately avoids talking about the fact that her college acceptance was rescinded because of the aforementioned secret. When we start the novel, Goldie’s starting her final summer before college with her friends as a counselor at the Camp. It trades between the past and the present from the viewpoint of Goldie, following her experiences with her best friends Ava and Imogen being camp counselors at Camp Alpine Lake. “The Counselor” fit all of those things for me to follow for the most part. Many of you know that I’m weak for summer stories, and even better if there’s a murder mystery afoot that the main characters have to unpack. More of a whodunit story with focus on the characters themselves unpacking a lot of lies and deceptions. Some moments are thrilling, but this is relatively light for on-page thrills. If you’re expecting a teen slasher/thriller title…you might want to temper your expectations – it’s not that. Jessica Goodman’s “The Counselors” revolves around a cast of teen characters with a lot of secrets convening and being uncovered within the realm of a summer camp. Release Day Tour for Teacher of the Year by M.A.Quick review for a quick-ish read – this was an overall decent murder mystery, though at the same time I was a little let down by the way that it ended and had moments where I could feel the weight of the overall pacing of the novel.

Amazon is still very finicky/fickle.īlog Tour for Vivienne in Paris by Maria Castellucci Moore 12th I also have quite a nice few Dutch releases that I am looking forward to, including several sequels to series that I love.Īgain, no pre-orders. XDĪs for May, BOY I am HYPED! I got so so so many releases that I am eagerly waiting for and I am sure I am missing out on several (because finding children’s book releases is hard).I got a few books that are HIGH on my list (The Counsellors, Out of the Water, Fever Knights). XD So I guess I got plenty to read given how March also wasn’t a success. I did manage to read 1 of them, others either were too expensive on Amazon, not available on Amazon, or won’t be releasing until after this post. As for books I wanted to read? Well… that didn’t go much as planned. Getting a new hamster named Gwen (will be posting pictures on Twitter and introducing her formally on there when I can, she is still quite shy). 3 year anniversary of us living in this house. Welcome all to a new What I Hope To Read post! May is coming up fast and I got TONS of books I would love to check out in the month of May.Īpril just flew by and it was quite a fun month! Easter.

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