(The type of thing where if it doesn’t get you fired up, you’re probably not paying attention.) Another aspect I loved was the emphasis on found family, or your friends being like family to you. others based on wealth, privilege, or simply who they know-things they take for granted-and that’s extremely relatable, too. Goodman herself writes that it is, in part, a commentary on privilege, and what some people get away with vs. Nothing like a little stabbing mixed in with your s’mores, right? But aside from the setting and the mystery, The Counselors has a lot of other interesting elements.
We all know I love a good summer camp setting for some reason, so a summer camp based murder mystery/thriller was really a lot of fun. And as the story unfolds, we find out there’s a lot of skeletons in the closet, and the story of what happened between the two of them is darker and sadder than her friends could have guessed. But the body isn’t just anyone-it’s Goldie’s ex-boyfriend. Right before camp starts, tragedy strikes when the head lifeguard heads down to the lake one morning only to find a dead body floating in the water. (People can be so mean, but not fitting in in your small town and getting relentlessly bullied is definitely an aspect of Goldie’s story I can easily relate to.) But she also doesn’t quite fit in in town, either, since her classmates and other people in town associate her with the fancy summer camp, and accuse her of thinking she is better than them or thinking she looks down on them, which lead to her peers excluding and often downright bullying her. Goldie attends the expensive camp for free due to her parents’ employment there, and as she has gotten older, she has become acutely aware that she doesn’t quite fit in, and even though they’ve always accepted her and never made her feel “less than”, her life is very different from Ava and Imogen’s. Though it’s located in a small, rural town, Alpine Lake caters to the wealthy. Goldie is a little different than the other campers.
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