Title: The Last Time I Lied
Author: Riley Sager
Publisher: Dutton
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Purchase Link: Amazon
My Rating: 4 Twisted Hearts
*Many thanks to Dutton for an arc of this book via Edelweiss+.
Synopsis:
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.
My Review:
The Last Time I Lied is a disturbing, atmospheric thriller that had me jumping at threatening noises and looking over my shoulder from beginning to end. The location sets a menacing, ominous tone that settles over the story and characters like thick fog descending over the woods and lake. The story plays out through dual timelines that weave past and present events together, leaving hints of the truth hidden among the many secrets and lies.
Emma was thirteen the last time she stepped foot in Dogwood Cabin at Lake Nightingale Camp. And now, fifteen years later, she's returned to teach the art of painting to a brand new group of young campers . . . and to uncover the truth of what happened to her cabin-mates all those years ago. As the youngest camper, she had watched three older girls sneak off into the night, and by the light of dawn, she awoke only to realize they had never returned. Were they lost in the dark woods? Or victims at the bottom of the dark, sinister lake? For fifteen years, Emma's been haunted by ghosts of the missing girls who often appear hidden among the gnarly trees in her massive paintings. She's back at Lake Nightingale to solve the mystery of what happened to them.
The Last Time I Lied is a creepy, mysterious suspense story that unfolds layer by layer. At one time or the other, I suspected different members of the large cast of being involved, and yet found I was wrong in the end. This story leads readers to suspect everyone, but trust no one just as it did Emma. The more I read, the more a sense of dread spread in the pit of my stomach and a sense of danger invaded my senses. The cabins, the woods, the sinister yet serene lake, the secretive cast - all lend a sense of fear and impending doom to the story. Fans of mysteries and thrillers will love this complex, dark, edge-of-your-seat thriller! A Must Read!
My Rating: 4 Sinister Hearts . . . And that's the truth!
Emma was thirteen the last time she stepped foot in Dogwood Cabin at Lake Nightingale Camp. And now, fifteen years later, she's returned to teach the art of painting to a brand new group of young campers . . . and to uncover the truth of what happened to her cabin-mates all those years ago. As the youngest camper, she had watched three older girls sneak off into the night, and by the light of dawn, she awoke only to realize they had never returned. Were they lost in the dark woods? Or victims at the bottom of the dark, sinister lake? For fifteen years, Emma's been haunted by ghosts of the missing girls who often appear hidden among the gnarly trees in her massive paintings. She's back at Lake Nightingale to solve the mystery of what happened to them.
The Last Time I Lied is a creepy, mysterious suspense story that unfolds layer by layer. At one time or the other, I suspected different members of the large cast of being involved, and yet found I was wrong in the end. This story leads readers to suspect everyone, but trust no one just as it did Emma. The more I read, the more a sense of dread spread in the pit of my stomach and a sense of danger invaded my senses. The cabins, the woods, the sinister yet serene lake, the secretive cast - all lend a sense of fear and impending doom to the story. Fans of mysteries and thrillers will love this complex, dark, edge-of-your-seat thriller! A Must Read!
My Rating: 4 Sinister Hearts . . . And that's the truth!
Cross My
Heart . . . xxx
Sandra
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