The Last Time I Lied: A Novel

3.5 STARS Fifteen years ago Emma was sent to a summer camp when she was a child. She was the youngest participant and placed in a cabin with three older girls ... Vivian, Natalie, and Allison. One night the three girls slipped out of their cabin in the middle of the night .. and were never seen again. Emma is now an adult, a rising star in the art world, a woman who has never forgotten the three missing girls. She's turned their disappearance into a series of paintings, with leaves and branches covering three girls in white dresses. One woman who has seen these paintings is the woman who is the owner of Camp Nightingale. She begs Emma to return to the newly re-opened camp as a painting instructor.Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees. Upon her arrival, Emma is assigned to the same cabin she slept in all those years ago. Doing her own investigation into the girls' disappearance, she discovers that the truth maybe closer than she thinks ... and the truth could cost her more than she's willing to pay. Well written with a tightly woven plot this thriller weaves together the past and the present. It's a chilling tale, intense with tension that never lets up. All the characters are skillfully constructed, lending an air of credibility to Emma's story. The ending came quite as a surprise. Many thanks to the author / Penguin Group - Dutton / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Man, oh man, Riley Sager is a master at messing with the mind of the reader! Last Time I Lied should've been titled Everybody Lies because there are secrets buried everywhere, both literally and figuratively. The story starts a bit slow, but once it has its hooks in you, there's no breaking loose as the tension builds little by little. Every answer brings another question as past merges with present and everyone is a suspect, including our less than reliable narrator. With the exception of Emma's friend, Marc, there's not a character in this twisted tale that I was completely sure about for more than a hot minute. Everyone has an agenda of one kind or other and every conversation is laced with what could be a clue, a veiled threat, or on the other hand, mean nothing at all. With some whiplash inducing twists, mysteries within mysteries, and so many secrets, this one will keep you guessing right up to the mind-blowing conclusion, and I absolutely loved it!

I am in love with this book. I couldn't put it down. I fell asleep reading it, then woke up at 3am and started reading it again. I finished it in one day! So many twist and turns that I couldn't stop reading it!