This isn’t a book I would’ve thought to pick up on my own; but got excited about it when asked to review it for my blog, and have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Camp Creepy Time.

Einstein, a young kid who has spent most of his life blogging about government conspiracies, is being shipped off for 8 weeks to the desert for summer camp – definitely the last thing he wants to do for his summer. Especially a themed summer camp where the kids are supposed to be dressed up as their favourite monsters.

After being assigned to a cabin with a group of werewolves, it doesn’t take him long to discover that all of the kids are actually turning into the monsters they are dressed up as – except for the ones that have been going missing.

There is something rotten at Creepy Time, aside from just the food. A few desperate souls decided to make a break for it and have been missing ever since. The word is that someone or something ate the missing campers, but I suspect that camp management planted the story to deter future attempts at escape. If I survive my stay in the infirmary, I plan to get to the bottom of this.

This was a completely enjoyable book. Who wouldn’t love a book that included vampires, werewolves, ghosts and aliens? Plus, the majority of it takes place at summer camp. As a former camp kid, it totally brought me back to my childhood – well, minus the whole monster thing. ;) I can’t see how anyone who spent even just one week of their summer at camp wouldn’t get a kick out of this book.

The kids in this book were very real, too. There were those you felt sorry for, and those you were cheering the whole time for. (And yes, I was cheering for Einstein – with a name like that, how could I not? Plus, he’s a bit of a brat, and oh I do have a soft spot for those brats!) By the end, it gave you the feel good feeling that made you realize that even kids can take down evil aliens on their own if they just put their minds to it.

And oh, the book was amusing. Very humorous at times, especially for geeks who enjoy their scifi:

“The truth of the matter is that travel to this planet was banned over a thousand years ago. Alien tourists used to love to come here and party. Unfortunately, it got out of hand and was stopped after a few bad apples pretended they were gods and ruined it for everyone.”

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is or was a camp kid at some point in their lives.