Surviving The Fog - By Stan Morris

Surviving The Fog is another book that I'd place Parental Guidance on for the younger Young Adults because there are references to sex, rape, murder and hanging as well as sporadic violence scattered throughout the book.

The story follows a group of children who are attending an abstinence awareness camp up in the mountain when they find that all connections to the outside world are cut off. The camp adults set out to find out why they've had no mail for the children and fail to return. When it becomes clear to the children at the camp that the adult's haven't returned, they band together and begin preparations for their long term survival in the camp.

As far as books go, I guess it wasn't that bad a read since it grabbed and kept my attention from cover to cover - but there were some things that I think could and should have been dealt with differently.

I liked some of the ideas that the children came up with... although, for a camp housing children of the age range that they had, I feel that more basic survival ideas should have kicked in and been implemented. Thirteen year old children should know that they can grow certain foods and vegetables from the ground without needing a neighbor from up the street to tell them that this could be possible.

The point where the army became involved could have been made better if there'd been more umming and harring before the decision was made to leave the kids down at the camp - in reality, the army wouldn't be wanting to enter into this decision as lightly as they seemed to do because they'd have had concerns about the welfare of the children in the camp.

I also feel that the ending was a little rushed and I'd have liked to have seen what would have happened as the fog gradually receded.

I found the characters to be likable enough though with enough variation to tell that they each had their own personality and skill set that they bought to the table in order to ensure that the camp survived.