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Reviewed by Trudi LoPreto for Readers' Favorite
"The Wendigo of Camp Shasta" by Robert Apold takes an old Indian legend and brings it into modern life. It offers adventure, excitement and scary stuff at an exclusive summer camp for boys. However, the reader is more familiar with the workers at Camp Shasta and we learn very little of the campers' life. We meet the villain very early in the story as he finds gold in the lake and schemes to create ways to close the camp so that he can go for the gold and become a very rich man. The camp director and counselors work hard to catch the bad guy while keeping the events as quiet as possible. It would be bad business if the parents hear of the things happening at camp which would cause them to bring their sons home, forcing the closing of Camp Shasta. The final scene is a great twist and one I never saw coming, but it did make me smile.
"Wendigo of Camp Shasta" is listed as a fiction-action story and it filled all of the requirements. I do believe that it should be aimed at the young adult reader heading off to camp rather than at his parents. Robert Apold has written a book that makes the legend of the Wendigo modern and scary and very real. This is a great story but it shouldn’t be read while on vacation in the mountains, unless you want to be looking behind you at every turn. I would recommend this book as a fast read with a good plot.
