
Member Reviews

I really liked the premise for this book: A young girl is haunted by the disappearance of three of her camp roommates. Over a decade later the camp reopens and she decides it’s time to get some answers. The setting for this book is perfect for summer since it takes place at a summer camp. The author did an amazing job with the imagery! I really could imagine at all so vividly. The best thing about it was that I didn’t guess the ending at all which is always a good thing with thrillers. Overall, it was an entertaining read that I finished within a day. This was a 3.5⭐️ read for me.
I will post this review on my Instagram account around the 20th of July.

Fifteen years ago at Camp Nightingale, three of Emma's fellow campers disappeared, never to be found again. Ever since then, Emma has felt guilt about the incident and her actions that night. She idolized the three girls, especially beautiful Vivian, the leader of the pack, who bossed around Emma and the other two campers, Allison and Natalie. Since then, Emma--now a painter--has been painting huge canvases of landscapes, where she (secretly) paints the girls within each scene. She holds a successful show of her works, but now she's stuck, unable to paint anything else but "the girls," as she calls them. So when the owner of Camp Nightingale, Francesca Harris-White, turns up at Emma's show and tells her she's reopening the camp and she wants Emma to come back as an painting instructor, Emma agrees. Perhaps this will give her the closure she has always lacked and a chance to move on, to begin painting something else. But once back at the Camp--in the same cabin where her friends disappeared--Emma feels watched. Strange things begin happening and Emma starts to wonder more and more about what really happened fifteen years ago.
Well, this was just a fun thriller and a completely engaging read. I'm so glad I gave it a chance, as--unlike most of the reading population, I actually wasn't a huge fan of Sager's FINAL GIRLS and I wasn't entirely sure I was going to read this one. But it was definitely worth the read! This is a quick read and really enjoyable.
Sager populates the novel with a bunch of mysterious pieces that begin to add up across the story--clues, if you will--but you are left constantly wondering as you read. I personally was guessing up until the end, which I really liked. I am always a fan of a thriller that isn't utterly predictable. The novel is told from Emma's perspective, but flips between the present and the past (fifteen years ago, when the three girls went missing initially). This turns out to be an amazingly effective and compelling storytelling format: I read the entire book in about 24 hours and the first half in one setting. You can't quite pinpoint what draws you in, but you find yourself compulsively turning the pages.
Emma is a wonderful unreliable narrator. I enjoyed that she wasn't the requisite annoying unreliable narrator that we seem to see so often: she's tough, engaging, and just happens to be fairly untrustworthy at times to boot. Just when you start to get a bit frustrated and ready to truly know what Emma lied about, Sager spills the beans and the saga continues, with more crazy reveals.
The scene setting in this one is great; while I've never actually been to camp, Sager sets the stage so perfectly: you can just picture everything. The entire novel has this wonderful layer of creepy and mysterious on top of it all. So much of it seems foreboding, which adds to the suspense. And, as many have mentioned, there is a great twist to the ending, which I personally liked.
Overall, I really enjoyed this thriller. It's foreboding, quite readable, and features a main character who draws you in. Between not enjoying FINAL GIRLS and then seeing so much hype for this one, I was ready to be disappointed, but THE LAST TIME I LIED proved me wrong: it was a really engaging and suspenseful read. 4+ stars.

Camp Nightingale is where the rich kids go for the summer, and Emma's not rich. Somehow her mother managed to finagle her a spot at the camp one summer and she ends up sharing a cabin with three other girls who are already best friends. Allison and Natalie seem wary, but Vivian, the brightest shining among them, both in personality and looks, begins to treat her like a treasured little sister and a confidant, and life at camp begins to look up. Until tragedy strikes.
Now, 12 years later, Emma's all grown up and a budding artist. Her paintings all feature the three missing girls from her past, although she always covers them with more paint until they are invisible to everyone but her. So when Franny, Camp Nightingale's owner, comes to her exhibition in New York city and asks for a favor, Emma's too intrigued to turn it down. It's an opportunity to go back to the camp as a volunteer counselor, and also an irresistible opportunity to solve the biggest mystery of her life.

Two truths and a lie.
1. This book is one of the best I've read this year.
2. Riley Sager has become an author I will "autobuy" from now on.
3. I hate talking about books.
I loved Final Girls so I knew as soon as I saw that Riley Sager had another book coming out, that I would HAVE to read it.
What I loved most about this book was the plot. I found it to be incredibly unique and rife with mystery, suspense, and intrigue. Y'all know me, I'm the type of reader who actively tries to figure out the plot twist or endings of the books I read. I want both to figure it out and be completely taken by surprise at the same time. I get a flood of endorphins fueled by my perceived cleverness every time I figure out a plot, but I also become disenchanted and disappointed with the book when this happens. On the other side of that, if an author can keep me clueless I immediately adore the the work they've done in the book. Having said that, Sager has kept me guessing and clueless in two books now and I'm obsessed. I had both the villain reveal and the ending all wrong, and it was glorious. I've seen argument that the rise of the climax in this story was too slow, but I disagree. I felt like he gave me the opportunity to follow Emma and her digging around, and that gave me time to see if I could piece the puzzle together before it was revealed to me. I had time to develop suspicions about whodunit and what their motives might be. Had it been a faster climb to that crux of the story, I don't think I would have had enough time to mull things over in my on head. The pace of this story gives the reader the time to make it a psychological thriller for themselves and not just the characters in the story.
The characters were good. I really enjoyed Emma and I also enjoyed Theo. I like that Emma wasn't undamaged and had secrets she kept; secrets that she kept not only from the other characters but from the reader too. Which only intensified my interest as she hinted about her misdeeds of the past. I also loved that she was a painter and the types of paintings she paints. Theo is an interesting character because of the "hell" he went through and the scars he carries with him in combination with his compassion. Franny's character kinda got on my nerves. But then again, Franny also kinda got on Emma's nerves so perhaps that was by design? The other characters were also decent, but I'm feeling lazy and like this has already become too long of a review so I'm not going to name them all and discuss their merits.
As before, I enjoyed Sager's writing. The ARC I read obviously had errors, but I have faith that they were cleaned up before it went to print. I didn't feel like I had to put effort into reading this one and that ultimately marks a book's writing as good for me.
It's because of books like this that I have come to love thrillers. The Last Time I Lied kept me guessing and even when the reveal happened, there was still more to be surprised about. So if you haven't inferred it by now, I recommend this one.

The Last Time I Lied is about how 3 girls disappeared years ago at a camp. Emma, the only camper who didn't disappear from that cabin, returns to the camp when it is reopened years later as a painting teacher. Memories of the summer 15 years prior come up around every corner as she tries to discover the truth of what really happened to her friends that summer.
The characters in this book are so interesting. The teenage girls were so manipulative, yet I found myself drawn to them anyway. The characters are no where near perfect, which makes them feel real and helps the story come to life. Piece by piece each layer of the story unfolds and the lies are unraveled, revealing the truth about that summer and the missing girls.
This book was slow paced. In novels about cold cases I always find that my attention wavers. The characters were interesting, but the plot moved too slow, so I continuously lost focus. The plot was cool enough that I kept reading though. It was well written and the plot had a few twists, but I feel like the pacing could have been done better.
As for the mystery, I didn't figure it out. I always love to guess what happened or who was at fault when reading any kind of mystery I like to play detective and puzzle out these kinds of books. Sometimes there isn't enough information given to figure it out, while that wasn't the case in this book, I still got it wrong. There was a twist at the very end that I completely didn't see coming. I always love when an author pulls something like that off.
Overall I enjoyed this one a lot, but did lose interest at times in the middle. I liked the manipulative teenage girls, especially Vivian, she felt so real. I liked that none of the characters were perfect, but done well enough that I liked them despite some pretty bad flaws. This wasn't a page turning thriller but it was still a compelling psychological mystery. I would suggest it to mystery lovers who are looking for something a little slower paced.
I received an advanced review copy from Netgalley and Dutton.

'The Last Time I Lied' is a thrilling novel that will have readers guessing until the very last page. This is one of my favorite genres and I read (and loved) the author's previous book, Final Girl, so this was an obvious pick for me. Once again, I was not disappointed. The plot is complex and layered - it goes back and forth between present day and what happened at Camp Nightingale fifteen years ago - and then merges the two to basically create chaos for the main character. Speaking of the main character, I really liked Emma. We get to know her from two different times in her life - present day and fifteen years ago when she attended Camp Nightingale as a thirteen year old. I loved getting to know each version of her character and seeing the similarities as well as the differences between them. Emma was easy to relate to and I identified with her right from the beginning of the book. The secondary characters were also very rounded with distinct personalities to make them more realistic.
The plot was full of twists and turns that I didn't see coming - both in the past and the present - and the suspense kept growing as the events of both time periods escalated. I was reading as fast as I could to see what was going to happen next. The author put in quite a few red herrings and misleading information, which I thought only added to the story. I couldn't seem to stop reading the book once I started and ended up finishing it in a few hours. I don't do spoilers in my reviews, so I can't go into the details much further without giving anything away. Fans of the author's previous novel as well as thrillers need to pick this one up immediately! I very highly recommend it for readers who enjoy mystery, suspense, thrillers, and contemporary fiction.

Two Truths and A Lie:
1) I've never been to summer camp, and I'm pretty sure that was a good thing.
2) This is a perfect summer read.
3) I did not like this book at all.
You guessed it; 3 is a LIE. I loved this book!
It checks off all the boxes for me-
☑ A Creepy Summer Camp
☑ Flooded/Drowned towns (I'm obsessed with them)
☑ Artists and photographers
☑ Possible Ghosts/Haunting
☑ Insane Asylums
☑ Unreliable narrator
☑ Kept me guessing the whole time
I enjoyed Riley's Final Girls, but did not LOVE it. I had had way too high expectations for the book. I was looking forward to this next book, but cautiously. This book did not disappoint. I was sucked in from page one.
Emma is damaged and sympathetic, wracked with guilt. That is only reason she agrees to go back to a camp where her three bunk mates disappeared 15 years ago. She wants to solve the mystery to assuage her guilty conscious. But what, exactly, is she guilty of? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out.
Emma's character, like almost all of them in this book, is very flawed, but still likeable and relatable. They all seemed so real to me; like I could meet any one of them in real life. I fell in love with Emma when she was packing for the trip and decided to bring a Nancy Drew book as inspiration for her sleuthing. That was perfect! I loved the descriptions of Emma's artwork in the book. I can almost see the forests she paints.
Vivian is almost a mean girl stereotype, but you get flashes of a very different, vulnerable and loving girl from time to time. You know her, or so you think.
The rest of the cast (see I'm already planning the movie) never get fully fleshed out, even Frannie and Theo who are pivotal to the book. That is the only flaw to the book for me. I'd like to know more about Theo, Chet, Becca, and Paige. But, that may be the point; you really don't know other people, and everyone is a suspect at one point.
All in all, I LOVED this book and give it 4 1/2 stars. It has been my best read so far this year. I sped through it. It was a wild ride and I wish it didn't end. And, oh wow, what an ending it was.
I want to go camping with my friends, tell ghost stories, and play Two Truths and A Lie.
I hope this review inspires you to pick up this book, and that you like it as much as I did. I can't wait for the next Riley Sager offering.
I received an advanced reader's copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I read this book while vacationing at a family resort in Lake George--the perfect setting for this twisted tale of summer camp gone wrong. Loved the atmosphere and the setting and the consistent voice throughout.

Emma went to camp 15 years ago and three girls from her cabin disappeared. She has lived with the guilt all these years and it keeps showing up in her career as an artist. When she is invited back to the same camp as an instructor, she decides to take it; hoping to finally put the past behind her.
Haunted by memories of the past and plagued by mistrust, Emma has to sift through the lies to discover what happened all those years ago and who is still hiding it now.
Another book that I finished in a couple of days. Very atmospheric, the author does a great job of painting a full picture of the camp, I can clearly picture it in my mind. The suspense was incredible and there was more than one twist I didn’t see coming.
There are moments that the reader really can’t tell what’s real and what isn’t. Told in alternating timelines, you are left guessing what happened then AND what’s happening now. The whole time I was reading it, I had a growing sense of unease. Kind of like when watching a scary movie. It was great and went a long way to restoring my faith in a once beloved, but often botched, genre.
Perfect for summer…assuming you aren’t at camp.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced review copy.

One of the five best books I have read all year!
"The Last Time I Lied" starts strong and never lets up. And when you think you have it all figured out, Sager throws you a curveball that you never saw coming. I have recommended this book to several of my friends already!
Throw this one in your beach bag and get ready to set aside a whole day to do nothing but read this book!!!

From my blog: Always With a Book:
Last year, I read Riley Sager's debut novel, Final Girls and loved it, so of course, I was thrilled when I was offered the chance to read his newest book, The Last Time I Lied. And let me tell you...I think I liked this one even more!!! Both are great thrillers and both kept me glued to the pages, but this new one just has that extra something that makes it a fantastic read.
I never went to summer camp, but this book just hooked me...it had that eery sense to it that hooked me right from that start. Add to that the fact that you have an unreliable narrator and I was sold! And I loved the way the story was told, moving back and forth in time...it really kept the story moving and kept you on your toes as you desperately try to figure out just what is going on.
There are so many twists and turns here, the biggest one being when you get to the end of part one, leading into part two...OMG did my heart stop! Are you kidding me?!?! From that point on, I was glued to the pages and couldn't turn them fast enough! But at the same time, I actually went back and read some of the beginning to make sure I hadn't missed something! It's that kind of twist that plays with your mind...it's so good. And it doesn't stop there!
I love the writing of this book - it's so atmospheric. Even if you're like me and didn't go to camp, you will feel as if you are right there at camp with these girls. It's moody and dark, and creepy as all get out, and you might just be reaching for the light if you are reading this in the dark, but it's so worth it!
This is an addictive, binge-worthy type of read that is chilling, gripping and wildly entertaining - a must read for thriller lovers!

This was much better than Riley Sager's first book Final Girls - I felt like this was less of a gimmick and more of the 'real thing' in terms of twisty mystery and real, meaty psychological exploration.
I love the idea of the book - in that, the reader is being led by an unreliable narrator, and the secrets are being revealed slowly, with the peel of the onion. Sager's characters aren't exactly likable, but they all offer their own zing and spice, and I enjoyed getting to know them.
The Last Time I Lied is compulsively readable, with a fiery heroine, elements of psychological terror, and a shocker of an ending.

Haunted by the disappearance of her bunk mates, Emma Davis immortalizes the missing teens in massive paintings of wild forests and three hidden ghostly figures. Fifteen years later, still obsessed with that July night, Emma heads back to the re-opened camp to teach art and stay in the same cabin. A tense thriller that chills.

THIS WAS GREAT. This totally blew Sager's last book, Final Girls, out of the damn water (pun intended).
This was so twisty, full of excellent red herrings, and unpredictable until the very last page. THE thriller of summer 2018! Cannot recommend this enough.

I received a free Kindle version of this book from NetGalley and Dutton in return for an honest review…so here goes.
Synopsis: Fifteen years ago, three teenage campers disappear from their cabin at Camp Nightingale, never to be found. Their remaining cabin-mate, Emma Davis, is haunted by events surrounding their disappearance and returns to Camp Nightingale to uncover what happened on that fateful night.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.
WOW. This was the first novel I had read by Riley Sager and it will definitely not be the last!
This book had everything you could want in a summer thriller—campfire ghost stories, secret maps, left-behind clues, steamy romances, and so much more. I felt like I was watching a horror film unfold, I was scared and excited and filled with anticipation as I was flipping through the pages.
This was an extremely fast-paced book. The story line hooked me immediately and I read the entire novel in one sitting!
I absolutely loved the ending. Sager managed to wrap up the main plot line, but still left some unknowns to keep the reader guessing. Normally, I prefer clean-cut endings, but I like some mystery with thrillers.
I would definitely recommend this book to Sager fans or avid thriller readers! *immediately adds Final Girls to my TBR*
“The girls would be anywhere. That’s what you realize as you stand in the water, shivering harder. They’re out there. Somewhere. And it could take days to find them. Or weeks. There’s a chance they’ll never be found.” –The Last Time I Lied, Riley Sager

Two truths and a lie: 1.) I've been in a reading slump for the last couple months, 2.) I finished this book in one day sitting by the pool, 3.) It was just eh.
If you guessed that the last one was a lie then you're even smarter than I thought, readers. Just kidding - that was a dead giveaway. Why would I waste time writing a full-length review for a book I didn't absolutely LOVE?! I wouldn't. But I'm kind of obsessed with The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager, and I want you to get obsessed too. Here's why you'll love it.
Summer reading can go one of two ways: you read a book a day and double that amount when you're on vacation trying to avoid your family as you stay together in a tiny house that smells like the 15 families who have stayed there before you this month alone, or you can't read anything at all and the 3 books you do end up reading take you the entire summer.
I was in the latter category until I picked up The Last Time I Lied. Everything I was reading was just...ok. I'm usually someone who can pick up a book and put it down the same day because I breezed through it so quickly. Not this summer. It was taking me weeks to finish anything - so long that I would kind of forget how the book started. So beyond the fact this book is un-put-down-able, it also broke my reading slump. Thank you, Riley Sager.
So what's it about? Ok, three paragraphs in I'll finally tell you.
After 15 years away, Emma is returning the Camp Nightingale, where she spent the summer of her 13th year. Why did it take her so long to come back? Well, that first summer was pretty disastrous. Out of the four girls in her cabin, she's the only one who made it through the summer. Vivian, Natalie, and Allison - older girls who Emma idolized, disappeared in the night with no evidence left to find them. And it's haunted Emma ever since.
So when she's asked by the camp's wealthy owner Franny Harris-White to return, she's not too enthused. Return to the site of the worst thing that's ever happened to her? Yeah, I wouldn't be knocking down any doors to get there. But as it always does, curiosity gets the best of Emma, and she returns as an instructor rather than a camper, hoping she can finally solve the mystery of where these girls who have haunted her for all these years have gone. Spoiler Alert: it doesn't go great.
Why The Last Time I Lied will have you on the edge of your seat
The setting is summer memories. Ah, summer camp. A time for arts and crafts, camp crushes and embarrassing yourself trying to be athletic in front of a bunch of kids your barely know and desperately want to like you. Camp Nightingale is the perfect setting for a summer read. If it doesn't bring back memories of your summer camp experience, then you probably went on fun vacations and visited your cool aunt in France while my chubby bum spent a week at 4H camp playing icebreaker games while trying to play it cool about my crush on a kid named Zander. Which was the coolest name back in 2004. Now he's a dime a dozen.
I love an unreliable narrator. I've already talked about my love of suspenseful books, and one of the best tropes of the genre is knowing that you can't trust anyone, let alone your narrator. Emma is kind of all over the place. I really liked her, but you can't help but have a niggling sensation in the back of your mind that she might be a little...off. At the same time, you want her to be innocent. You'll feel a lot of feelings in general about this book.
Time Jump or bust. The plot jumps between Emma's current day camp experience, and her summer 15 years ago. The story unfolds slowly, each change in time giving the reader clues about what happened then, and maybe helping to solve what's happening now. The gratification you'll feel when it all comes together at the end is perfect.
That ending though! While reading the last 50 pages I couldn't stop gasping. No for real, I said "uh-oh" like fifteen times and my boyfriend asked what was wrong every time. Don't you know I'm reading?! Leave me alone! But then I finished it and was so enamored of the ending I explained the whole book to him (badly) and rambled on about what a great movie this would make.
The Last Time I Lied is the ultimate summer read. It's fast-paced, engaging, and will leave you on the edge of your beach chair. I can't recommend it enough. And I probably won't shut up about it until everyone I know reads it. So read it!

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager is an intense thriller that will keep you totally immersed while it continuously throws you for a loop! Just when you think you know what's going on, something else will happen that you did not see coming.
Pick this one up on a day off. You won't be able to put it down!

Last year I read and loved Riley Sager’s suspenseful thriller, Final Girls, so when I heard he had a new book coming out this summer, The Last Time I Lied, I couldn’t get my hands on it fast enough. I got my hands on a copy and sat down one evening to read what I thought would be just a few chapters before bedtime, but instead, ended up being about half the book. I remember the same exact thing happened to me when I read Final Girls. There is just something so addicting about Sager’s writing – he draws you into his tale so thoroughly that you just can’t even come up for air until you’ve followed every plot twist and devoured every clue.
Like Final Girls and other thrillers, The Last Time I Lied is one of those books that I think is best to go into knowing as little as possible, but what I definitely want to share with you are some reasons why I think you’re going to want to read this book.
4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ADD THE LAST TIME I LIED TO YOUR READING LIST:
1. Complicated Protagonist. If you like your characters complex, Emma Davis is your girl. Emma, an up and coming artist in New York, attended Camp Nightingale when she was 13 years old. When the older three girls in Emma’s cabin decide to sneak out in the middle of the night, they leave Emma behind, telling her she’s too young to come with them. That was the last time anyone saw the girls.
Fifteen years later, Emma is still haunted by their disappearance so much so that she includes the girls in each of her paintings, burying them beneath layers and layers of paints so that only she knows they’re there. She realizes that she can’t continue like this forever, that it’s becoming an unhealthy obsession. When the opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale unexpectedly presents itself, Emma decides that she needs to go. If she can figure out what happened to the girls, maybe after all of these years she can finally get some closure and move on…
What makes Emma so complex is that even though I felt tremendous sympathy for what she must have gone through as a 13 year old when those girls went missing and for what she has continued to go through as an adult, I still sometimes got the vibe that she wasn’t being completely honest, that she was keeping secrets. I found myself skeptical of her version of events, which had me turning the pages even faster, because I wanted to know if I could trust her or not. Not knowing if I could trust Emma or not really added to the overall suspense of the novel.
2. Creepy Camp Setting. This is such an atmospheric read. Sager does a phenomenal job of creating the eeriest girls’ summer camp ever. Everything about the setting has a real horror movie vibe. The unsolved mystery of what happened to those girls casts a huge shadow over the camp and creates tension and suspense around every corner. Even though it has been fifteen years, it still feels like something could happen to anyone at anytime. The land the camp is built on is also the subject of legends and folklore that will make your hair stand on end and wonder if something supernatural is afoot on Camp Nightingale’s lands.
3. Dual Timeline. The Last Time I Lied is presented to the readers in a dual timeline format. Emma is the narrator in both timelines, the present day one and the one from fifteen years ago. The modern day timeline follows Emma as she returns to the camp and plays amateur sleuth, trying to see if she can solve the mystery that alluded police detectives all those years ago. The other timeline follows Emma while she was a young camper at Camp Nightingale. It follows her from her arrival at the camp up through the disappearance of her cabin mates and the ensuing investigation. Sager does a brilliant job of weaving together these two intricate storylines, revealing key details in the modern timeline and then revisiting the past and showing why exactly the details we’ve just seen are relevant. I found the story all the more compelling watching the details unfold in this manner.
4. Web of Secrets and Lies. If you enjoy a mystery that is filled with plot twists that keep you guessing, The Last Time I Lied should be a book after your own heart. There are so many secrets and lies swirling around throughout the novel that it gets very difficult to know who can be trusted, if anyone, and the lies just further the suspense and add intricate layers to the plot twists. A popular game the girls played at the camp is Two Truths and a Lie, and the more I read, the more appropriate the game seemed because this is a book filled with people who cannot be trusted.
I especially enjoyed the detective story aspect of the novel as we follow Emma playing detective, trying to uncover some of those secrets and lies and piece together what happened to the girls fifteen years ago. Emma even requests to stay in the same cabin she stayed in all those years ago in hopes of uncovering some clues that were overlooked that could possibly lead her to the truth of what happened to her friends. In many ways, the story reads like a modern day Nancy Drew novel.
MY FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE LAST TIME I LIED:
As much as I enjoyed Riley Sager’s Final Girls, I actually enjoyed The Last Time I Lied so much more. Maybe it’s the timing – reading a book about a creepy summer camp in the middle of the summer – or maybe it’s just Sager’s superior storytelling abilities, but whatever the reason, this is one of my favorite reads of the year so far. It kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish, which is all that I could possibly want from a thriller, so I definitely look forward to reading more from Riley Sager.

So creepily good. Fifteen years ago Emma’s cabin mates all disappeared on one fateful night, never to be heard from again. Camp Nightingale is reopening after all those years and Emma has agreed to return as an Art Instructor, hoping to find answers and closure. Sager does an excellent job weaving the two story lines together and releasing just enough information at just the right moment. More questions arise as Emma slowly finds her answers. When her new cabin mates all disappear it leaves us questioning everything we know about Emma. With red herrings galore and a haunting summer camp plot, this book is a complete page turner right up until it’s fabulous ending!

This is the perfect thriller for summer! It's so atmospheric and descriptive that and anyone who's spent time at summer camp will be able to feel the heat, and smell the lake. Very enjoyable and fast passed much like Sager's first novel The Final Girls.