The Counselors

By: Jessica Goodman

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

"Dark secrets? Summer camp setting? Complex teen girls? Murder? Count me in." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces

* A New York Times bestseller * A USA TODAY bestseller * An Indie Bestseller *

From New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman comes a twisty mystery about three best friends, one elite summer camp, and the dark secrets that lead to a body in the lake.

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe—the camp is the lifeline of the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Her parents work there so Goldie is one of the few townies who have reaped the rewards of living so close to the summer camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents.

Goldie is back this summer as a counselor, desperate for camp to start and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, to arrive. Because Goldie has a terrible dark secret she’s been keeping, and she is more in need of comfort than ever.

But Goldie’s not the only person who has been lying. When a teen turns up dead late one night, she knows that the death couldn’t have been an accident. She also knows that one of her best friends was there that night.

Asking questions offers no answers, only broken bonds of lifelong friendship, with hidden danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.

Teen Summer Easy Read

Exactly what I needed for the beach. Easy to listen to. If you miss a couple words or even a minute or two you will be fine. Enjoyed the easy listen.

Ending came out of left field

There are parts of the story that I enjoyed more than others. I felt the ending could have been more exciting. Wished Heller was punished for ruining someone’s life.

Young adult

It was a quick read & overall I enjoyed it. Light mystery, not scary at all. A good summer atmosphere

I loved it! Would read again and recommend to everyone

I absolutely loved this book it was a really great read and kept me interested throughout the whole thing. How she wrote it never left the reader confused and how it did the then and now but your were never lost with then and now’s they continued flawlessly

Good Ride!!

I read this after reading another book by the same author. I can say this book met my expectations and then some. There are a lot of twists and turns, but it was a good ride.

The suspense

The suspense was amazing and I loved the book!!!!!!!! I loved this book so much

i love a teen girl mystery

this is a book you can only really love if you grew up loving camp. that being said, i really liked it! the ending falls off a bit for me but let’s be honest, the ending is always the worst part for these kinds of books

Must read for any former camper or counselor!

Amazingly descriptive down to the smallest details! The story is good, and had a good twist at the end, but for me it is the nostalgia of camp! If you have been lucky enough to have either attended or worked as a counselor at an 8 week summer camp in New England, this is a must read! The author paints an amazing verbal picture of what camp life is really like, I mean we didn’t have a murder at our camp but besides that she is spot on. Every detail from pre camp chores, the girls bag drop, late night skippy dip, color wars, and even the songs are included in this story. I hope there are more summer camp stories to come!

Fell in love with the characters and setting…. Kept me guessing!

I enjoyed feeling like I was part of the camp and the mystery … I was guessing until the end! Great twists and suprises!

Enjoyable mystery

4.5 STARS

I love a good camp book and THE COUNSELORS did not disappoint.

After a tough year, Goldie returns to her exclusive camp as a counselor, along with her two best friends. Eager to put the pain behind her, happiness doesn’t last long. Her ex, a skilled swimmer, drowns and Goldie suspects foul play, perhaps tied to the accident that ruined her school year.

I enjoy Jessica Goodman’s books. THE COUNSELORS is a slow burn, alternating chapters from past to present readers see how Goldie and her friends became close, the event that shaped her senior year, how being middle class family at a camp filled with rich kids impacts her.

THE COUNSELORS, more mystery than thriller, doesn’t have a lot of tension but I still couldn’t put it down. I can’t wait to see what Goodman writes next.