Clever twists
I would give The Counselors a solid 3.5 stars. The author does a good job of putting in some clever twists and turns - the dynamics between the main character Goldie and her friends Imogen and Ava were believable and showed the stresses of class differences and what it’s like to live in a small town - I struggled some with the mystery itself because it builds and builds to only be solved in the last few pages. I tend to find these unsatisfactory and a little too convenient. I myself went to camp so found the camp descriptions to be so entertaining - color war, food raids, bonfires etc. That made me nostalgic for those experiences. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and shifting timelines can be hard to keep track of but they did say either Then or Now which helped some. I think these types of books are better served to have one mystery and when there start to be multiple layered mysteries you lose that believability