[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_accordion][x_accordion_item title=”Book Info” open=”false”]Title: Mother-Daughter Book Camp
Author: Heather Vogel Frederick
Series: Mother-Daughter Book Club #7
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publishing Date: May 3, 2016
Length: 336 pages
Source: Advanced Reader’s Copy (for review) via Edelweiss
Synopsis: Spend one last summer with the Mother-Daughter Book Club at camp in this bittersweet conclusion to Heather Vogel Frederick’s beloved and bestselling series.

After so many summers together, Emma, Jess, Megan, Becca, and Cassidy are reunited for one final hurrah before they go their separate ways. The plan is to spend their summer as counselors at Camp Lovejoy in a scenic, remote corner of New Hampshire, but things get off to a rocky start when their young charges are stricken with a severe case of homesickness. Hopefully, a little bit of bibliotherapy will do the trick, as the girls bring their longstanding book club to camp. [/x_accordion_item][/x_accordion][cs_text class=”cs-ta-left”]I’M GOING TO CRY. It’s over. Really and truly this time, the girls are headed off to college and I’m a mess!

For those of you who don’t know, this series has been a favorite of mine for over four years now (I want to say four and a half; somewhere in that time frame. I hate that I don’t know exactly when I picked them up!) and it’s definitely a childhood favorite of mine. Each book begins a new year in the mother/daughter book club girls’ lives – from sixth grade to the summer before setting off for college. I feel like I’ve grown up with them! I relate to every girl on a different level and in a different way, and they’ve become some of my best friends.

(I even making many friends through Heather’s blog to these books – by commenting and getting the pleasure to interview her a year ago, many new blog readers have also become my closest friends!)

As my 11-year-old self said three years ago when the “last” book was written (awesome enough – it was published ON my birthday – September 11, 2012) in a review I had written: “Yes, I’ll probably get bored with my addiction to Nancy Drew mysteries pretty soon, and start reading the books all over again, but like the last sentence in the last book – Megan says, ‘There’s no place like home.’ – Especially when home is where the heart is. And my heart is with the mother-daughter book club.” As cheesy as that *may* sound, it’s so true and I’m all sappy because I feel like my real life best friends are all grown up now! I’m just so happy Heather Vogel Frederick decided to put in this last installment to give us a better idea – and one last peek – into the Mother/Daughter Book Club world, and where the girls are going from there.

This last one was a tad different than the rest of the series. The gang is signed up to be camp counselors at Camp Lovejoy, in cozy, lovable Pumpkin Falls – Heather’s other setting that ALSO makes you fall in love in her book Absolutely Truly. (On that note, I love how she merges her worlds together! Several characters from Absolutely Truly even made an appearance!) I loved the setting; Camp Lovejoy and the little girls Emma, Jess, Megan, Cassidy and Becca watch out for are cheeky and charming! Buuuut I did miss Concord and the crazy mothers and all. The book also didn’t take place in a span of a year as the others do; instead it’s a mere seven weeks. That said: this was the perfect setting and opportunity to bring the MDBC series to a close. In one final farewell, even the girls get emotional. I liked it a lot because the ending gave me a lot more closure than the (originally planned!) ending in Wish You Were Eyre.

The antics the girls find themselves in at camp are just as funny and interesting as the rest of the books! As I said before, the little girls in the cabins the crew is in charge of are so adorable! I loved the fact that the book club gets their girls together for a mini book club, because it was sweet that now THEY’RE leading the group. It made me wonder if perhaps they’ll start a book club of their own when they have daughters. (Hey Heather, make a spin off series would you??) (How AWESOME would that be?! My daughter would be reading that, for sure.)

And the girls! Same personalities, same friendly girls we’ve known through all 7 books. We meet Mirror Megan again, and Cassidy’s final score at the end of every chapter. They’re all still very much the same, yet they’ve grown so much in a subtle but clear way. (After all, you can’t expect them to be the same from 12-18 years old.) It makes the books very realistic and Heather does such a good job at that, while also making the books relatable and fun for readers of all ages. I know I’d have loved this as much as I do now several years ago and I doubt I’ll like this book any less four years from now when I’m the girls’ age in the book.’

The ending was as perfect as it can get. It was final, and I was SO happy to see the girls with a future I could be happy with – it wasn’t quite so unknown as in Wish You Were Eyre, yet also left just enough up to my imagination. Camp Lovejoy even inspired one of the girls into a career I can definitely see her in. It was such a sweet and satisfying ending; I know all of you will love it as much as I did and I can’t for you to read it as well!

five stars. ★★★★★

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