(51)The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

It has been fifteen years since the summer that changed Emma Davis's life.  She was just thirteen years old when her cabinmates at Camp Nightingale disappeared in the middle of the night.  Emma has kept the secrets of that night for the last fifteen years, but those girls haunt her every moment.  She pours the emotions into her art and it is at her very first showing that she reconnects with Frannie, the owner of the camp. And Emma is even more shocked she Frannie contacts her with a proposition.  She wants to reopen Camp Nightingale and wants Emma to come and work at the camp to teach art to the campers. Emma is reluctant at first and then realizes that this might be the opportunity she needs to exorcise the demons that have haunted her since that day.   Almost immediately strange things start to happen.  Birds mysteriously are in her cabin, the uneasy feeling she has that she is being watched, and then there is the graffiti that shows up on the outside of her cabin.   But she nearly falls apart when the three girls she shares a cabin with go missing.  There are a lot of accusations being thrown around, but more importantly, what happened to the girls then and now?


Riley Sager may be a pseudonym, but I am absolutely smitten with his writing style. The Last Time I Lied is just as dark and twisty as The Final Girls. I love the camp setting, it reminds me of the old horror movies from the 80's.  Emma isn't the most reliable of narrators.  You like her, she is easy to like.  You are empathetic towards her, but she admits that she has lied before and she admits that she has a history of mental illness. She admits that she screwed up way back when, but you don't know to what degree until very late in the book.  In that case, your own imagination is your worst enemy.   The camp's history was completely creepy, but of course, that information is not willingly shared, Emma has to dig to find it.  It also prompted her to make false accusations, yet again.  That part really bugged me, but Emma's lack of reliability really kept the reader on their toes.  I did not have it all figured out, but I was not really surprised by the big reveal. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS -

Bottom Line - If you are looking for a great thriller to take to the beach (or the cabin) then The Last Time I Lied needs to be at the top of your list. It will keep you on your toes!  I promise!

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• The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
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• Pages: 384
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 7/3/18
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