The girls should have been clued in that there were many things wrong with this camp. The “grayish hot dogs”, for instance, were a major red flag, as well as the fact that no one living around the camp was aware of its existence. Twenty-five girls split into five cabins arrived on a hot summer day with no idea that, by arriving here, they were condemning themselves to a week of distressing life-or-death situations orchestrated by menacing unknown forces. They were unaware that the camp was not created for their entertainment, but quite the opposite. They were there to entertain the camp.

This novel opens the door to an entirely new way of telling a tale with the integration of the narrator both as the impartial storyteller and as a completely separate character present in the book itself. The layout is fantastic as each section of the book focuses on one of the five specific cabins as they encounter separate situations and fight separate evils from the other girls before being brought together in the end.

I also thought that the presence of the “stagehands” and all of the ways that this book was made to resemble a production or a play were extremely clever and engaging. Overall, this book was written very well and kept me captivated each time I opened it. Some books that Camp So-and-So reminded me of are And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.