Review: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

Title: The Last Time I Lied

Series: Stand-Alone

Author: Riley Sager

Genre: Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Publication Date:  July 3rd, 2018 by Dutton 

Format: e-arc

Source: I received this book in penguin first to read program in exchange for an honest review.

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Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.

Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.

Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.

And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.

*** I received The Last Time I Lied at Penguin First To Read program in exchange for an honest review, thank you so much to Dutton publisher for the opportunity to read and review The Last Time I Lied! ***

Wow just wow I really loved and thoroughly enjoy The Last Time I Lied, I really wanted to read Final Girls when I first heard about it back of last year because I heard many raving reviews about it I really wanted to check that book out. But unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to read it yet, but when I first joined penguin first to read program and saw The Last Time I Lied up for review on there I quickly press the button to get the chance too read this amazing book. And Ohh my how much I love this book this is actually the first time I read a Riley Sager book but it would be my last. What can I say I just love this book so much I really don't want to go into any details about The Last Time I Lied without being too spoiler. I am really a fan of great mystery thrillers books and this novel was no exception I'm just going to say what I really and absolutely love about The Last Time I Lied. I have seen so many movies with almost the same plotline and concept of this book, but I never read it in book format. And to this day I always love and enjoy the plotline and concept of a horror and mystery thriller plot in a campground for me it never gets old I just love it too much. Horror is also one of my favorite genres to read as well I couldn't get enough of this book and I couldn't put it down I just needed to learn and know what was going to happen next in Camp Nightingale the name of the campsite also sounds creepy too. The writing style flows really well and was very expressive and detailed that I easily understood what everything was going on. There is past and present timeline in The Last Time I Lied but that never really bothers me the past and present timelined added more mystery to the book too me. I thought all the characters were absolutely well developed and rounded. I love each and every one of them yes I even loved the bad guys as well I especially loved Emma Davis. I just felt awful for everything she was going through in her life especially what happen to her 12 years ago in Camp Nightingale and the aftermath when she left camp when she was just a young girl. I so felt every emotion she was feeling when Franny ask her to go back to the re-opening of Camp Nightingale I know it was not a great idea. But I know also that Emma had to go back there a find out to what happened to her close friends that disappeared in the dead of night 12 years ago at Camp Nightingale. And Emma finds a lot of twists and turns in the camp but she also finds some dangerous in the camp as well and a lot of bad things starts happening to Emma when she goes back to Camp Nightingale. By the end of the book, all the dark secrets are revealed along of what happened to Emma's three friends which I was in total shock to read what happened to the girls 12 years ago at the camp. I won't say what happened to them because a spoiler but you have to read this book to find out what happened to the three disappeared girls. All and all I really love and enjoy The Last Time I Lied that I will most definitely continue on reading more books by Riley Sager in the near future!

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Riley Sager 

Riley Sager is the pseudonym of a former journalist, editor and graphic designer who previously published mysteries under his real name.

Now a full-time author, Riley's first thriller, FINAL GIRLS, became a national and international bestseller and was called "the first great thriller of 2017" by Stephen King. Translation rights have been sold in more than two dozen countries and a film version is being developed by Universal Pictures.

Riley's next book, THE LAST TIME I LIED, will be published in July. It was inspired by the classic novel and film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and one horrible week Riley spent at summer camp when he was ten.

A native of Pennsylvania, Riley now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. When he's not working on his next novel, he enjoys reading, cooking and going to the movies as much as possible. His favorite film is "Rear Window." Or maybe "Jaws." But probably, if he's being honest, "Mary Poppins."

Website: www.rileysagerbooks.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rileysagerbooks
Twitter: @Riley_Sager.