Review: Very good indeed!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2012
I don't normally read books about teenagers but the product description for Poison Oak Summer drew me in.  Lucy, an English eighteen year old, goes to work as a counsellor at an American Summer Camp.  She is viewed by many as being boring and law abiding but so are many of us!  She is burdened by a heartbreaking event in her recent past and hopes to try to forget a little.  She finds the body of a little boy in the river but can't make anyone take her seriously.The writing is superb and the characters felt real to the extent that I occasionally wanted to give Lucy a shake and to ground some of the girls!  At the end of this book Lucy walks to the nearest town and finds some surprising, even shocking things about her fellow campers.  The book is long novella length and is the first of three.  I have already downloaded the other two.  I NEED to know what happens next.  It's intriguing, exciting and very good indeed!