Logan Savage is a man’s man. His idea of a good time has never included watching over and entertaining a bunch of kids at a summer camp. Especially when that camp happens to be full of kids with a love for mythology and medieval fantasy. In other words—a bunch of geeks. Unfortunately, in order to avoid a jail sentence for assaulting a cop, that’s exactly what he has to do. Head counselor and owner of the camp, Willow Avaris, is a nice surprise. Beautiful, fiery and sexy… Too bad she loathes his very existence. Plus, the kids are making his life a living nightmare. Could the summer get any worse?
Bravery and strength were things Logan always thought he had in spades, but as the summer goes on, and strange, surreal events take place around the camp, Logan is forced to look within himself and figure out what’s important to him. It’s safe to remain the self absorbed, shallow man he’s always been, but can he find the courage to reach inside and embrace the true warrior he was destined to become?
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| Reviewer: Valkyrie's Lady |
Logan Savage didn't have a clue. He just wandered through life for the past twenty-nine years, doing as he chose and with whom he chose with no regard for the consequences. However - when he is sentenced to be a volunteer counselor at a summer camp; his lawyer sister tells him that this is it. He needs to grow up, she’s through saving his sorry butt and this is his last chance. Logan figures it can’t be that bad. Teach some mini-homeboys how to pick up women, get close to a few female counselors and come home. Not bad at all! Rogue River Fantasy Camp! How lame...
Willow Avaris does not need to babysit an adult on top of the camp kids. Especially this adult; he is egotistical, smart mouthed and nearly everything she didn’t want as a volunteer. However, she’s stuck with him and needs him to take the oldest group of campers.
Rogue River Fantasy Campis all about dragons, wizards and the like. Darien’s group has been coming for years and this will be his last summer. They draw the new guy for a counselor and things immediately take a dive. He tries to macho them around. They don’t macho. He tries to break up their group. They don’t break. Darien thinks: "He and his friends had been running the place for years. He wasn’t about to let some half-cracked nut-job counselor ruin that. This was his last year of doing the only thing he really enjoyed. He wasn’t about to take orders from some idiot who looked like he’d just stepped off of a GQ magazine and acted like he thought he was a drill sergeant. Forget that." Stalemate.
After several hellish days of rain (his tent leaks), trying to raft (four kids fell out) a VERY bad hunting expedition (one kid’s parent’s are in PETA), Logan is done in. He finally loses it and screams at the kids that they have no future, are a bunch of geeks and will never learn to exist in reality. Darien decks him and Logan realizes that he is obviously out of his element.
Apparently Rogue River Fantasy Camp is a tad more than it seems. Willow is in trouble, Logan is shot with an arrow and then it starts getting interesting.
I loved this book! It was funny, serious and taught several well placed lessons at the same time. The characters were from my childhood (yes, I was a geek!) and I can just see them ganging up on Logan because he is such a jerk. Darien is my new hero and I hope to be able to introduce this book to my grandchildren somewhere along the line. Kudos to Ms Robertson...
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