Wilderness Reform

After 13-year-old Ben’s latest brush with the law, he is sent to a wilderness camp in Montana meant to reform troubled teens. When he arrives, he finds that his court-ordered time at camp isn’t as awful as expected. He spends his time reading books from the library and bonding with his new cabinmates. Even so, something definitely feels off. The counselors are excessively, even troublingly, happy, and the other campers are changing, too. Can the cabin residents, each with their own skills, band together to uncover the truth about this camp? Todd Menesses narrates the Query brothers’ sophomore novel (after Old Country), a horror story that starts with a slow burn and crescendos into a heart-pounding, terrifying ending. Menesses employs varying accents and character voices to differentiate the many characters, all the while communicating the creeping dread infused throughout. As the book hurtles toward its dramatic conclusion, listeners will be unable to stop listening.