Review: Fine Drama
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
This is the sequel to Disappearing in Plain Sight,  which I have not had the pleasure of reading.  So I am happy to say that is is a stand alone book,  but be warned:  there are loads of characters, with what we might call an ensemble group as the main protagonists.But holy patoly, what a read!  It is all about the residents and staff in a Canadian summer camp for abused/troubled teens, and we are quickly caught up in the drama of their ongoing lives.  It seemed to me like an awful lot of drama, having conveniently forgotten my own family and its theatrics, but then I got thinking that we all know lots of people with their dramas and tragedies, so this wasn't so rare after all.If you like Maeve Binchy, I am sure you will like this book and its precursor as well, because everybody seems so real.  You find yourself saying to one character, "Cripes.  Get a GRIP."  or  to another, "She's the one for you.  What are you waiting for?"  You know, stuff like that.  And then when your husband in the other room asks who you  are talking to, you have to make something up, like "It was the TV."The ending was satisfying, without being The End, if you know what I mean.  Kind of like episodes in our lives that end, but are not actually finished.  Does that make any sense?  Just know it is one of those books that could have twenty sequels and still not get through everybody's lives.Heartwarming, heartbreaking, all those kinds of adjectives.  Now I have to go read the first book.  I hate it when that happens.