Do you believe in love at first sight? The book Camp, by LC Rosen is about a 16-year-old boy that is sent to a queer summer camp by his parents. Randy Kapplehoff decides to change a lot about himself all for Hudson Aaronson-Lin. This summer, instead of the nail-polish wearing femme boy named Randy, he takes on a new identity as “Del”. Del is an athletic butch boy, or in other words, Hudson’s ideal type. Del is constantly telling himself that it was all going to be worth it in the end when he will be the first one that isn’t just one of Hudson’s two-week conquests. The book is being told in the perspective of Randall AKA Del throughout the whole book. The conflict in this story is how Randall has to completely change everything about himself just to try to get Hudson to fall in love with him for more than just his usual two-week period. Going into this book, I didn’t originally expect it to have as many sexual references as it did.There were some bits of imagery in some of the interactions between Del and his friends in addition to multiple scenes between him and Hudson too. That’s also one of the big things that really surprised me when I started reading this book. After reading this book, I was thinking about how people in the LGBT community are constantly discriminated against even now in the present day. The way that this book centers around the queer kid's time at the queer summer camp is a really nice change in perspective since it's essentially a safe place for all those queer kids in this book. One other thing that was really nice in the book, and that added to the overall read, was the author’s use of writing. The author used plenty of descriptive words throughout the book in addition to tons of imagery that added another level of entertainment to the story. It was very well paced in my opinion too. This book was a very great choice to read. I feel like I can really connect with some of the characters, especially Del. The way he changed himself all for Hudson kind of reminds me of how I’ve tried changing for people. I learned that if you were to change for someone, you would most likely be having a ton of second thoughts about if changing nearly everything about yourself is really worth it. This book changed my perspective of having deep feelings for someone and if it's right or not to change yourself just to appease them and get them to notice you. I feel as though I’m more empathetic since I feel it's easier for me to understand the thoughts going through Del’s head when he decided to change pretty much everything about himself all for Hudson. By Kaylee H.
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