![]() ![]() Via Mar’s urgent voice, intimate with the history of shared girlhoods and betrayal, Capin ( Foul Is Fair) reveals over three sections the previous summer’s events, elevating plot twists that contribute mystery and terror to this ingenious story about misogyny and power dynamics. But dreamy Mar, who “falls in love too fast” and reads Emily Dickinson (whose poems appear throughout), has dark secrets concerning “a boy from Naval One,” which will change things for all of them. After eight summers together, they have become a family. Margaret Moore, who reads as white, narrates as her three best friends-general’s daughter Flor Gómez, who is Venezuelan Jordanian Nisreen Al-Shayab and presumed-white Rose Winston-arrive at camp. I’m not triggered by a lot and this book shook me. ![]() Second, trigger warnings galore Sexual assault, violence, and a handful of others. First, BIG THANK YOU to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for providing me a copy of the ARC to read and review. On the shore of Lake Nanweshmot, the campers learn to sail, play tennis, ride horses, and practice semaphore. Foul is Fair is AMAZING and gripping and Hannah Capin has my full attention. ![]() A thousand girls from all over the world, ages nine to 18, attend the Marshall Summer Naval School. Lyrical writing distinguishes this haunting summer camp thriller as an enthralling literary mystery with crossover appeal. ![]()
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