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Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

4 reviews

justmehayleyb's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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katietregs's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I loved this book. It really helped me take a look back at my own religious trauma, and I wish I had a book like this when I was in high school. I did feel like the end felt a little rushed.
Spoiler I was so excited for Rose to reunite with Willow and then we didn’t really get to see them spend any time together. And we didn’t see Saul reunite with his partner.
But once again, Chuck Tingle reminds us that loving each other should always be the end goal, and loving someone by trying to change them is never the way. 
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harpoonholly's review against another edition

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dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Audiobook read by Mara Wilson. Wilson is a fantastic narrator, switching between the characters and narrative with subtlety. 

I really enjoyed this and I'm excited for future horror by Dr. Chuck Tingle. It's a slightly rough first outing (as a novel; Tingle also wrote a horror novella that I haven't read yet), but shows a great deal of frightening potential. 

My only complaint is
Spoilerwe don't get satisfying closure with Rose's parents. I feel like her dad is a more prominent antagonist and a very disturbing one. When Rose asks him about her missing bedroom door, Rose's description of how her body was responding to the tension shift was jarring. Another small gripe is that lead pastor Peter Bend should have been a more looming background presence for the final big bad to be really satisfying
, but we can't have it all. 

This'll be a reread for me.
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nixieba25f's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Honestly I’m just ecstatic to read an autistic character who knows she’s autistic written by an autistic author. Even though my Way and Rose’s Way are very different, I still felt more at home in her head than I have been with any other character in my 25 years of voracious reading. And as a horror fan and queer person, I was compelled by the narrative and pleased at the avoidance of certain tropes (cough bury your gays cough). I definitely would have loved a more extended novel where I could spend more time falling in love with these characters and drawing out the tension, but Camp Damascus was a perfectly good snack-sized story.

Thank you Dr. Chuck for proving love once again!
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