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A review by angieross
Four Weeks, Five People by Jennifer Yu
3.0
Four Weeks, Five People is about five teens who either willingly check into, or are checked into by their parents, a summer camp of wilderness therapy. There's Clarissa with OCD, Mason with Narcissitic Personality Disorder, Ben with Manic Depressive Disorder, Andrew with Anorexia, and Stella who's back for her second summer with depression. They are all assigned to work together on a cabin and reach out to each other, if they can stop fighting long enough to do so.
This book was an entertaining read. I enjoy reading about people that I don't relate to and I'm trying to branch out of my normal fantasy genre. I became pretty invested in a few of the characters, but none of them really resolved much by the end of the book. I'm still trying to decide if I like that for its realistic edge or don't like that because it doesn't give hope to the teens who might suffer from these disorders and need the hope it would convey.
This book was an entertaining read. I enjoy reading about people that I don't relate to and I'm trying to branch out of my normal fantasy genre. I became pretty invested in a few of the characters, but none of them really resolved much by the end of the book. I'm still trying to decide if I like that for its realistic edge or don't like that because it doesn't give hope to the teens who might suffer from these disorders and need the hope it would convey.