[Review] Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

I really wanted to love this one—I even intentionally saved it for spooky season—but I just didn't love it the way that I had hoped. I liked that the characters were diverse, and the premise of the book held a lot of promise. I even generally liked the ending.

But all that aside, the book felt surprisingly bland to me. The pacing was too slow. The first half of the book was basically just noise. There were a few times where the what's-going-on was vague and unclear. Even the character development felt too thin for me to ever feel invested in the main character. And despite this being an anti-religious-conversion-therapy book, it still felt surprisingly pro-religion, which was weird and unsettling.

An okay read, but this one just didn't do it for me.

3 stars