I loved this book! Fast paced, easy to read plot that keeps you engaged, the best queer vibes, and an unexpected romance. I really didn’t see the outcome of this book coming but wow, fully loved it! 🙌🏻
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The first chapter was enticing right off the bat. Marshall ‘Mars’ Matthias is attacked by his twin sister Caroline at home while she is supposed to be at summer camp and through the struggle they fall from the second floor where she dies (not the cause of death though). Mars then decides to go back to Aspen Conservancy camp to stay the remainder of the summer and learn about Caroline’s life over the past year.
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This is marketed as YA horror, but it’s definitely soft horror. This book represents a lot from Mars’ gender fluidity to the outcome and trauma of bullying. We have the atmospheric, maybe light academia vibes with the summer camp, the enigmatic and effervescent Honeys, and the mystery behind Aspen itself along with the mysterious deaths/ missing people. First, I loved the Honeys, a group of mysterious, very into themselves, almost whimsical girls who live farther away from the camp and much closer to the bee hives. Second, I did not see their secret coming, what a twist. I enjoyed La Sala’s writing too and the way he wrote from Mars’ “is this happening or am I crazy” perspective. I was mostly just going with the flow unsure of what was coming and kind of confused (but in a good way) until about half way through the book with the first real plot twist. The last half of the book was pretty trippy but such a fun read and I also loved the connection of Mars and the bees in the end. Really I feel that’s all I can say without spoiling it but this was such a great book!
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HUGE Midsommar vibes!
I loved this book! Fast paced, easy to read plot that keeps you engaged, the best queer vibes, and an unexpected romance. I really didn’t see the outcome of this book coming but wow, fully loved it! 🙌🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The first chapter was enticing right off the bat. Marshall ‘Mars’ Matthias is attacked by his twin sister Caroline at home while she is supposed to be at summer camp and through the struggle they fall from the second floor where she dies (not the cause of death though). Mars then decides to go back to Aspen Conservancy camp to stay the remainder of the summer and learn about Caroline’s life over the past year.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀This is marketed as YA horror, but it’s definitely soft horror. This book represents a lot from Mars’ gender fluidity to the outcome and trauma of bullying. We have the atmospheric, maybe light academia vibes with the summer camp, the enigmatic and effervescent Honeys, and the mystery behind Aspen itself along with the mysterious deaths/ missing people. First, I loved the Honeys, a group of mysterious, very into themselves, almost whimsical girls who live farther away from the camp and much closer to the bee hives. Second, I did not see their secret coming, what a twist. I enjoyed La Sala’s writing too and the way he wrote from Mars’ “is this happening or am I crazy” perspective. I was mostly just going with the flow unsure of what was coming and kind of confused (but in a good way) until about half way through the book with the first real plot twist. The last half of the book was pretty trippy but such a fun read and I also loved the connection of Mars and the bees in the end. Really I feel that’s all I can say without spoiling it but this was such a great book!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2023
I loved this book! Fast paced, easy to read plot that keeps you engaged, the best queer vibes, and an unexpected romance. I really didn’t see the outcome of this book coming but wow, fully loved it! 🙌🏻
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The first chapter was enticing right off the bat. Marshall ‘Mars’ Matthias is attacked by his twin sister Caroline at home while she is supposed to be at summer camp and through the struggle they fall from the second floor where she dies (not the cause of death though). Mars then decides to go back to Aspen Conservancy camp to stay the remainder of the summer and learn about Caroline’s life over the past year.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This is marketed as YA horror, but it’s definitely soft horror. This book represents a lot from Mars’ gender fluidity to the outcome and trauma of bullying. We have the atmospheric, maybe light academia vibes with the summer camp, the enigmatic and effervescent Honeys, and the mystery behind Aspen itself along with the mysterious deaths/ missing people. First, I loved the Honeys, a group of mysterious, very into themselves, almost whimsical girls who live farther away from the camp and much closer to the bee hives. Second, I did not see their secret coming, what a twist. I enjoyed La Sala’s writing too and the way he wrote from Mars’ “is this happening or am I crazy” perspective. I was mostly just going with the flow unsure of what was coming and kind of confused (but in a good way) until about half way through the book with the first real plot twist. The last half of the book was pretty trippy but such a fun read and I also loved the connection of Mars and the bees in the end. Really I feel that’s all I can say without spoiling it but this was such a great book!
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The first chapter was enticing right off the bat. Marshall ‘Mars’ Matthias is attacked by his twin sister Caroline at home while she is supposed to be at summer camp and through the struggle they fall from the second floor where she dies (not the cause of death though). Mars then decides to go back to Aspen Conservancy camp to stay the remainder of the summer and learn about Caroline’s life over the past year.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This is marketed as YA horror, but it’s definitely soft horror. This book represents a lot from Mars’ gender fluidity to the outcome and trauma of bullying. We have the atmospheric, maybe light academia vibes with the summer camp, the enigmatic and effervescent Honeys, and the mystery behind Aspen itself along with the mysterious deaths/ missing people. First, I loved the Honeys, a group of mysterious, very into themselves, almost whimsical girls who live farther away from the camp and much closer to the bee hives. Second, I did not see their secret coming, what a twist. I enjoyed La Sala’s writing too and the way he wrote from Mars’ “is this happening or am I crazy” perspective. I was mostly just going with the flow unsure of what was coming and kind of confused (but in a good way) until about half way through the book with the first real plot twist. The last half of the book was pretty trippy but such a fun read and I also loved the connection of Mars and the bees in the end. Really I feel that’s all I can say without spoiling it but this was such a great book!
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