Scan barcode
A review by kerasalwaysreading
The Camino Club by Kevin Craig
4.0
The Camino Club is an amazing coming of age journey of six troubled teens. Each of them have done something bad and have been given the option to serve time in a juvenile detention center or join Gilbert and Meagan on the Camino de Santiago. Together, these six teens and their two chaperones will travel to Spain and walk for days on this world-known pilgrimage, learning much about each other and themselves along the way.
What starts as a group of kids who (mostly) do NOT want anything to do with this, turns out to be an incredibly bonding and fortunate experience. They slowly start to form this tight-knit connection that they will never be able to break. I absolutely adored the connection the kids immediately make to The Breakfast Club and all the great references made throughout the book.
As they get into the reasons they are in this place in their lives right now, we get insight into each of the differently lives they live, their struggles and their strengths. Along the way, they meet an array of people who change their lives in ways they never thought possible. This was full of beautiful atmospheric imagery, full of immense individual growth, and full of pure wonder and love.
I enjoyed reading this so much. To get to know each of these kids and be a part of their journey in a way. I don't think I have ever read a book with such a picturesque setting. You want to be there. You can almost feel their aches and pains; feel their jubilation and their wonder. The relationships in this book were such a gift. Each of these kids are so different. They come from different backgrounds, different home lives, different struggles. But, they manage to come together and form a family. They are truly changed people at the end of their journey from who they were at the beginning.
Told in various points of view, from three of the pilgrims, we get to see insights into the thoughts and fears of Diego, Troy and Shania. There were times I wished to have had some chapters from Claire, Greg and Manny, but I feel now, having finished the book, that it would have become overly complicated. After completing this book, there is now nothing I would change.
Thank you to Duet Books and Storygram Tours for my gifted arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.
What starts as a group of kids who (mostly) do NOT want anything to do with this, turns out to be an incredibly bonding and fortunate experience. They slowly start to form this tight-knit connection that they will never be able to break. I absolutely adored the connection the kids immediately make to The Breakfast Club and all the great references made throughout the book.
As they get into the reasons they are in this place in their lives right now, we get insight into each of the differently lives they live, their struggles and their strengths. Along the way, they meet an array of people who change their lives in ways they never thought possible. This was full of beautiful atmospheric imagery, full of immense individual growth, and full of pure wonder and love.
I enjoyed reading this so much. To get to know each of these kids and be a part of their journey in a way. I don't think I have ever read a book with such a picturesque setting. You want to be there. You can almost feel their aches and pains; feel their jubilation and their wonder. The relationships in this book were such a gift. Each of these kids are so different. They come from different backgrounds, different home lives, different struggles. But, they manage to come together and form a family. They are truly changed people at the end of their journey from who they were at the beginning.
Told in various points of view, from three of the pilgrims, we get to see insights into the thoughts and fears of Diego, Troy and Shania. There were times I wished to have had some chapters from Claire, Greg and Manny, but I feel now, having finished the book, that it would have become overly complicated. After completing this book, there is now nothing I would change.
Thank you to Duet Books and Storygram Tours for my gifted arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.