Published August 2023 via G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
★★★
It's summer, and we all know what that means: time for some summer-camp horror. In <i>The Last Girls Standing</i>, Sloan has already survived a summer-camp slaughter—but she's not sure she'll ever really recover. The only person who can calm her fears is Cherry, the other survivor...but as time goes on, Sloan is no longer sure that Cherry is being completely honest about what happened that night...and she's no longer sure of anything else, either.
I enjoyed this to a point—possibly I enjoy summer camp murder books so much because I never went to summer camp myself—but as the book wound down I had to wonder: what actually happened here? Without spoiling the plot, I'll say that a lot of the book comes down to Sloan's mental health, but in pursuit of this the other characters are wildly inconsistent, to the point that by the end of the book I still had no idea what was real and what was all in Sloan's head. That might be the point, but it felt more plot-hole-y than intended to me. (And...I'm no expert on PTSD, but I don't think this is, ah, an accurate representation.) Largely engaging but not one I'm likely to return to.
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