This story starts off so strong and is really hard to put down once you start. Primal animals is a young adult horror novel that follows Arlee Gold, a high school student whose mother thinks she will benefit from the summer camp she went to for college prep classes. However as soon as Arlee arrives, she notices a distance from the other girls when her last name is spoken. And then she’s brought into a secret society of women who will do anything to protect each other. As events unfold and Arlee begins to see another side to the camp, the society and the woman who raised her.