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    The Last Time I Lied: A Novel

    Written by Riley Sager

    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

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    In the latest thriller from the bestselling author of Final Girls, a young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.

    Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. 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. When the paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees.

    Familiar faces, unchanged cabins, and the same dark lake haunt Nightingale, even though the camp is opening its doors for the first time since the disappearances. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, but soon discovers a security camera—the only one on the property—pointed directly at its door. Then cryptic clues that Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins begin surfacing. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing mysterious threats in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale and what really happened to those girls, the more she realizes that closure could come at a deadly price.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9780525627227
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    • 3/5
      A really good story idea but I found that it was slow moving and the switching back and forth from the present to 15 years ago was frustrating. I will have to say that it was very cleverly written but it was just way to long and descriptive. 3 stars for the great idea and a very good ending. If you read his first book, [Final Girls], you will see the difference.
    • 4/5
      This was a really good suspense book. The twists were a surprise to me as I read through and it came to a very satisfying conclusion. Many people raved about this book, so my expectations were high, and it did not disappoint.
    • 5/5
      I read reviews that said this book didn't hold up to The Final Girls, lucky for me then this was the first book I have read by riley Sager. This book kept me guessing until the end. The last sentence of Part I had my jaw drop. I found my suspicions shifting to every one, right along with Emma. the only thing that frustrated me, was I knew where to look for the girls long before Emma did. Maybe it was the suspicions, the shock or just her overall disbelief that kept her from figuring that out. I truly didn't see the twist at the end and I was surprised at Emma, doing the right thing instead keeping loyalty or a secret. Overall, this is a sold 5 star for me. can't wait to read the author again.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed Final Girls, but Sager's sophomore effort is even better. Kind of creepy, definitely mysterious, and full of suspence.
    • 5/5
      I love thrillers. All too often, though, I figure them out about half way through. Not so with Riley Sager's "The Last Time I Lied". Don't get me wrong. I thought I had it figured out. In fact, I thought I had it figured out several times. But every time I thought I had it, a plot twist threw a wrench into my theory. I couldn't put "The Last Time I Lied" down; I spent every free minute reading about the mystery surrounding Camp Nightingale, Lake Midnight and Dogwood Cabin. If you love mysteries and thrillers, you will love "The Last Time I Lied".
    • 2/5
      Some fifteen years ago, three young girls disappeared from Camp Nightingale. Emma Davis knows this is true. The girls were her cabin-mates . . . and she saw them sneak out of the cabin the night they vanished. Now a talented artist, Emma feels compelled to hide the three missing girls on every canvas she paints. At a gallery showing, Camp Nightingale’s owner, Francesca Harris-White, approaches her to return to the newly-reopened camp to teach painting to the campers. Although she hopes that, by returning, she might find out what happened to the missing girls, Emma is reluctant but finally agrees.Camp Nightingale, as haunted by memories as Emma, spins its web and leaves the young woman determined to find the answers about the lost girls . . . even if it costs her everything. The story alternates between the present day and the events at the camp fifteen years ago. While this is a rather commonplace occurrence in thriller storytelling, it’s a less than optimal choice here, mostly because of the author’s choice to insinuate [over and over and over] about something the character “knows” but won’t reveal. Truth be told, between the camp, the campers, and the counselors, there’s nothing but secrets hinted at and, after an interminable wait, slowly revealed.The narrative drags along; pages of what feel like unnecessary birdwalking destroy what little suspense the story might have garnered. Willing suspension of disbelief becomes difficult when the events in the narrative ignore logic and common sense, making it impossible for the reader to overlook them. A young, first-time camper inappropriately placed in a cabin with older girls? A lone adult bunking in with several young campers? The police questioning everyone in the same room? Without parents present? These scenarios may set up the story for the author, but they destroy it for the reader who’s smart enough to know that safety prevents the first two and investigative procedures prohibit the latter two. The annoyingly over-used mean girls trope doesn’t work here, either. The “friendship” between the girls feels forced and improbable, as does Emma’s fifteen-year-guilt trip. And Emma, now a grown, accomplished woman, is nothing if not exasperating with her constant guilt-tripping and her pathetic choices. Astute readers will suspect the final plot twist before its reveal, but as they roll their eyes, the underlying question of how this is even remotely probable is likely to spoil any surprise it might have held.
    • 4/5
      Interesting book. Riley Sager's plotting keeps getting better--he's one to watch in this genre for sure. I thought the premise for Final Girls was more interesting as it represented a twist off a horror movie trope. That said, this is probably a better and more tightly plotted book. It's like a tight ribbon spiral that reading lets loose. At first, it unwinds slowly and then it picks up speed and there's a ton of twists you never see coming.I didn't much care about the characters from an emotional perspective. I mean, I didn't want them harm to befall them, but I wasn't invested in their circumstances or what would become of them. However, it caught and held my interest and there was no way I was going to stop reading before I knew how it ended. This one, like the last, relies on a possibly unreliable narrator. It's not particularly scary, but it is absorbing. It involves an insane asylum, both potentially figurative and literal hauntings, lack of closure/vanishings, and loss of childhood innocence. I defy you to predict the ending--there are a number of hairpin twists that build at the end and keep coming. Just when you think you know, it shifts and...there's more. And, you're left with a pretty sweet coda that's like a cherry on top with a kick. It's pretty rewarding that way.Nothing grisly. Probably PG13 if it became a movie.Recommended to anyone who likes psychological suspense, who enjoyed Final Girls or who's just discovering Riley Sager for the first time. I think it'll hold up well if discovered ten years from now. It's no classic, but there's a certain timelessness to these plots.
    • 4/5
      What I enjoyed about this one is the twists and turns happening all throughout the novel. You think it’s one thing, but it’s leading to another, yet out comes another possible solution to the mystery however it ends up being another red herring and so on. The guessing games keep the book on your toes.The plot flows through smoothly, alternating between past and present so you get a feel for the background story on the events leading up as to why Emma is back. There were times where you had to question her sanity because her behavior was erratic and unstable. As mentioned before, the guessing games throughout the novel kept the plot going and exciting to read. Expect mean girl behavior and shenanigans, and Emma’s character overall isn’t too likable but tolerable at the most. Vivian isn’t any better but the role she takes upon herself as a ‘big sister’ is endearing and gets instant idolization from Emma. What I loved the most about this book is I wasn’t expecting such a great ending. I was thinking it was going to be a lackluster one at the most with a simple explanation as to what was behind the girls disappearances. It’s not until literally, the last pages of the novel where you get hit with a mega surprise and it was instant mind blow. I was left shocked for a fair amount of time as it was expertly done.I heard more good things about Sager’s other works so I’ll definitely be picking them up. Hope they’re just as good as this one!
    • 5/5
      I think this book is even better that Sager's first book. I really liked the ending.
    • 5/5
      Amazing!! Great suspense coupled with a creepy mystery! Camp Nightingale.... Emma Davis thought she would never go back after what happened fifteen years ago. Three girls in her cabin disappeared without a trace. After finally moving on, or so she thought, and becoming an accomplished painter, she is invited back to the camp to help reopen it for its first summer since the tragic event. Maybe she can right the wrongs of the past and figure out what happened to the girls and who is responsible.
    • 5/5
      So by now, you have likely had the chance to read the synopsis of the book, and even better, may have already read the book. Immediately my response for the book, upon finishing it, I was blown away, and couldn’t even write my review as soon as I had finished. I was speechless, and I then uttered a few curse words because Sager has written yet another bloody brilliant book.In FINAL GIRLS, Sager blew us out of the water with a thriller that focused mainly on two girls, and the very concept that they were the final girls left from slasher killings (even without the book revolving around the killings themselves) was enough to get into the readers psyche and make us terrified. In THE LAST TIME I LIED, he manages yet again to take the reader to a very vulnerable place, alongside the main character Emma, this time back to when she was a teenager, self-conscious and needing to be accepted, but how could it be worse than back then? Going back to the same camp as an adult where your friends went missing and you were accused of being responsible for it, that’s how. But Emma is going to figure out what really happened at Camp Nightingale all those years ago (Jason Voorhes had nothing to do with it). The book is absolute brilliance, in terms of pacing, use of different timelines (and we see this as a writing device a lot, but not always done well), depth of characters, and ultimately, the story has the best plot twist I could (never) have imagined. One of my best (sorry, Sir Sager) compliments is that I could swear Riley is a female author because he writes female voices so well. I don't know how he does it. But I know he will do it again when he writes another book!
    • 5/5
      A gripping psychological thriller set in a summer camp. Emma Davis has been invited back to Camp Nightingale as an art tutor. Fifteen years previously three girls disappeared in mysterious circumstances from the same cabin Emma was staying in as a 13 year old girl. Now 28, Emma agrees to return to the camp as she wants some answers to her paranoia, which include drawing the girls repeatedly only to keep painting over them.This is quite a disturbing and eerie read. As well as the missing girls, there is a legend about a sunken village and the land being haunted by those who inhabited it, which is a conundrum in itself. There are a few red herrings, an assortment of untrustworthy characters and an unreliable narrator! These all blend to make a riveting and intriguing mystery (or even mysteries) with an unforeseen ending. I really didn’t know and couldn’t even hazard a guess at what was going on. A sign of a great book! It's really quite the page turner.Another thoroughly enjoyable thriller, a tale of the unexpected, via the Pigeonhole app. I can highly recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Source: NetGalleyRating: 4/5 Lying Liars Who LieReview: Things I Love: Creepy cabins in the woods. Summer camp stories. Secrets. Twisty friendships. Books that give me mysteries in the past and in the present. The premise of The Last Time I Lied was A+ MADE FOR ME. The setting is gorgeously described, the characters are frustrating and twisted and interesting, and though I expected more tension from the mysteries, the story itself was intriguing and entertaining and fun to read. I love unreliable narrators, and Emma is a pretty great one. (I did get tired of how many times she brought up, oh THING happened, but I’m not even going to think about it. We get it, you have secrets too, this is done too often to have any impact.) I love the slow build of the story and would have happily spent more pages letting that atmosphere get creepier and creepier (and spending more time in the past with Vivian manipulating everyone, because she is the greatest).
    • 5/5
      This truly one of the best mysteries I’ve ever read. It’s the story of a girls summer camp where friendships and disagreements abound. The author keeps the reader guessing about an old disappearance of three of the girls right along with a current disappearance of 3 of the new campers. It’s definitely a book to devour.
    • 5/5
      Can I give this one a 5 1/2? It was that good. When I first read about this book, I was intrigued. After winning this as a Goodreads first read, I waited not so patiently for it to arrive and started it right away. Fifteen years ago, three girls disappeared at a summer camp never to be seen again. Emma was the last to see her three bunk mates alive and was haunted by their disappearance and the portion that she left out when questioned by police over and over. The camp had closed but Emma remained tormented by what had happened. She is now a famous artist with most of her works being variations of the 3 girls in the order they left the cabin that night amidst the forest and lake. Fast forward 15 years later. When Emma is approached by the owner of the camp wanting to reopen the camp and wanting her on staff, she is conflicted. She never thought she would ever return to the place that caused her such anguish and why would the owner Franny even want her there after what had transpired? Finally resolving to the possibility of going back being a healing experience, Emma agrees to go back as an art instructor and is determined to also find out what happened to her three friends all those years ago.But something is wrong at Camp Nightingale, something feels off. There are some faces from 15 years ago but Emma is wary and doesn’t know who among those she can trust, including the camp owner’s son who was her childhood crush. Trying to find the answers Emma inadvertently involves her three young bunk mates she has now, trying to make sense of all of it and what she discovers. So many things inspired me to read this book. While nothing so sinister happened to me, I have had 20 years of camp experience and that may have been what drew me to the story. The title “The Last time I Lied” also had me interested, even as I was reading this book. What was the lie? I devoured the book, wanting to know what the lie was and how it affected anything or everything in the story and will Emma ever come clean about the truth? Add that to three missing teenage girls that disappeared without a trace and I was hooked. I read this while on vacation, up at a lake cottage and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning unable to put it down; most of it enjoyed in one sitting. I love Riley Sager’s storytelling. It is engaging, descriptive as if I were there, with a little bit of creepy added in. It wasn’t just wanting Emma to solve the mystery; I really needed to know what happen to Vivian, Natalie and Allison and I couldn’t stop until I had all the answers. There were a few surprises. Sometimes I thought I had all the answers but I didn’t know who to trust either. Everything isn’t always what it seems. There were a few curve balls thrown my way to make me question everything I thought. If I had to recommend only one book this year, this would be it. If I could give 5 1/2 stars I would. I dare anyone to read this one; you will not be disappointed and will love the ride as I did. I am a little saddened that my copy of Final Girls is at home and I have to wait until the end of vacation to read it; I am so looking to reading another of Riley Sager’s books. I received this book free from the publisher and Goodreads in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      Holy freaking moly! Everytime I thought I figured out what happened to the girls there was another twist in the story - until the very last page. Everyone seemed to be a suspect at least once throughout the book. Great book.
    • 5/5
      A great mystery/thriller that I enjoyed more than Riley Sager's other work, Final Girls. This will not disappoint!Emma went to summer camp where 3 of her roommates disappeared one night. 15 years later, Emma returns to newly reopened camp and is determined to find out what happened to the missing girls.
    • 3/5
      I have to say that I was incredibly excited to read this novel; and not just because of the hype Sanger’s debut novel “Final Girls” received. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. While the story started out promising and the first few chapters really set the mood (who doesn’t like a summer camp set in the middle of a dark, scary forest, where no cell phones and other electronica are allowed?). Soon, however, the plot turned into sth that was more suitable for young adults than grown-ups. The story was too innocent, too slow-paced, and the ending was flat and everything but satisfying. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone looking for a full-on thriller. But a good book for teenagers who are looking for some suspense.
    • 4/5
      Suspenseful with a twist I didn't see coming. Imagine a literary version of the cheesy cult classic, "Sleepaway Camp" and you get this thriller. While it starts slow and you really question the narrator's reliability, it quickly picks up steam when Emma returns to the camp that rocked her childhood and changed the course of her life forever. The camp was closed down the summer that Emma attended when the three other girls in her cabin disappeared without a trace. As an adult Emma has resorted to using art to treat her depression and doubt, and art is precisely the reason she's returned back to the camp. She's been offered a job as the art instructor for the camp and she's determined to uncover the truth of what happened that fateful summer. Where did her cabin mates go? Did she have a hand in their disappearances, however unintentionally? A great summer read!
    • 4/5
      I thought this book was very good, however I would say you have to get to the very end to get that satisfaction you need from this genre. At times I found myself disappointed and underwhelmed by this book and hoping that my hunches were wrong. I did not expect the ending and it definitely boosted my review to 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      This is the second book by this author, although he also publishes under another name. I enjoyed "Final Girls" and I also liked this book, but in each case my enjoyment didn't really kick in until the last third of the book. At 13, Emma Davis was the youngest camper in cabin Dogwood at Camp Nightingale, the exclusive summer camp for girls. Her cabin mates were Natalie, Allison and the uber bitchy Vivian (each the daughter of a prominent New Yorker). Late one night they left Emma alone in the cabin and were never seen again. Fifteen years later, Emma is a successful artist who paints enigmatic paintings of the girls over and over. The wealthy and elderly Francesca Harris-White (Franny) proposes reopening the camp as a free camp with merit-base admission and she wants Emma to be the painting instructor. Other former campers also return for the summer, along with Franny's two adult sons and her assistant. Emma agrees to return because she hopes to solve the mystery of the disappearances. There are creepy woods, hidden maps and no shortage of either suspects or red herrings. The book flashed back and forth between 15 years ago and now. There was a lot of repetition as Emma kept dropping hints about what horrible things she said, did or lied about 15 years ago. In the last third when the author finally started delivering on the hints the momentum of the book picked up and there was a very good payoff at the end. I'd read this author again but I hope that next time he picks up the pace earlier in the book. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 5/5
      Emma has been haunted for fifteen years by the events that happened at Camp Nightingale when she was thirteen. Her three cabinmates - Vivian, Natalie, and Allison - disappear one night and are never seen again. Emma suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized when she kept hallucinating seeing Vivian all over the place. She is still in therapy. She is an artist who is becoming known for her large paintings of deep, dark forests. Only she knows that she begins each painting with portraits of the three girls and then covers them all up with the forests.When Franny Harris-White, the wealthy owner of the camp, asks Emma to come be the artist in residence at the camp's reopening, she is fearful but eager to try to finally learn what happened to the three girls. Emma finds herself back in the same cabin with three new young girls. She gradually uncovered the secrets that Vivian was keeping and tells the reader the secrets that she has been keeping. Many of the people who were at the Camp the first time - Franny, her companion Lottie, her sons Theo and Chet - are there again and Emma is suspicious about all of their actions. She gets even more suspicious when she finds a camera aimed at her cabin, sees suspicious shadows outside the cabin, and finds the word Liar in red paint on the cabin door. These things combine with her own mental state since she is sure that she is catching glimpses of Vivian.When the three girls who share Emma's cabin in the present go missing, it is like the whole nightmare scenario is happening again. But this time the police are really trying to pin the crime on Emma.The story is told in the present and also fifteen years in the past. Each part adds one more piece to a complex and frightening puzzle. This book was a real page turner. It was hard to put down since each page added one more clue to a puzzle that had haunted Emma for years.
    • 2/5
      I found this very slow to start and actually wanted to DNF at one point. I'm not sure if it was the story or the writing, but something just didn't hold my interest. There were a lot of facts turning up throughout the read but maybe the suspense was missing from the writing? Just not sure. I will say the very end was pretty great but I'm just not sure the means justified the end. I was provided a copy by the publisher.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. I read Riley Sager's first book Final Girls and really enjoyed it. This book wasn't quite as good but it was still a solid thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end. I didn't love the ending - without giving anything away I just felt it wasn't really plausible. There were things brought up in the book that never were really cleared up - why did Franny's husband drown if he was a champion swimmer, where was Lottie when Emma was screaming in the lake, why was Casey always lurking around. Fans of the Final Girls will enjoy this as well - it is fast paced and interesting. Thanks to First To Read for the ARC.
    • 5/5
      Keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time.
    • 5/5
      this literally kept me guessing from start to finish. great book!
    • 5/5
      Slow in the beginning but the ended though! Loved the plot twists but I wanted more Theo and Emma plot. Happy there was an implied romantic future for them. :)
    • 4/5
      Really great book. I was along for the ride at every turn! Always suspecting someone new. I thought I had it figured out every chapter, and then boom, another twist. Loved this one to the very end. I did think the narrator’s voice was a little too mature for this character but great job nonetheless.
    • 4/5
      Entertaining. It’s a generally interesting story that I enjoyed listening to. I found the main characters a little flat, and the ending wasn’t a huge surprise. But it’s a fun read anyway.
    • 4/5
      The second half was my favorite especially the last chapter!