Our book club read this book and I can't wait to discuss!! 2 Truths and a lie: 1. You'll never guess the end. 2. I loved this book. 3. If you read this book you will be bored out of your mind.

I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!! I loved the setting, the characters, the mystery and the ghosts...I will, for sure, be looking for more titles by Riley Sager.

First sentence: This is how it begins.

Last sentence: The time for lies is over.

Holy cow was this book good! I enjoyed the Camp Nightingale location and felt it definitely added to the creepiness. I loved the back and forth between past and present, and all of the characters involved. I did not see the ending coming and this will be one of my top reads of 2018! Thanks for the advanced copy!

Emma is a 13 year old girl who is going to summer camp at Camp Nightingale. After befriending her 3 new roommates, she wakes up one morning with them missing. She searches the camp, but cannot find a trace of them. Now, 15 years later, she is an artist in New York City. The owner of the camp approaches her in hopes she will return to the new reopening of the camp as the art instructor. Throughout this book, you are continuously wondering: What happened to the girls? Does Emma know? Did she have something to do with it? What is she hiding? Why is she willing to go back to a camp where everyone doesn't trust her?. I was completely taken in by this entire book, trying to make predictions how I thought it would end. Not only was I completely wrong about the ending, but.... THAT ENDING!!! I had goosebumps reading it and immediately want everyone I know to read this so I can talk about it with them!

Riley Sager has done it again. This book's eerie vibes are evident from the very beginning, I mean come on, secluded summer camp on land that could be "haunted", but definitely has some bad juju, how can you go wrong?

I loved the backward/forward motion of the story. Emma is a character full of flaws, there's not doubt about that, she's hard to believe, but also hard to distrust. (Both as an adult and a teen) Her unreliability makes you think, could she have played a part in the disappearance of the girls the whole time.. Beyond Emma, I really liked the whole cast of characters, I think they brought just the right amount of mystery, angst, and foreboding to the story.

The twist, well let's just say, wow! I didn't see it coming and it makes me want more from this story and from Sager as an author.

I really liked Riley Sager's first novel and this follow up was just as good for me (maybe even a smidge better ...). I admire Sager's ability to create a sinister mood that gives the reader a strong sense of unease while also making the reader never want to put the book down! Although my own camp experiences were very different than the one described in the book (I was much older when I went to camp), I found the entire camping aspect of the story to be so well done! The setting that Sager created was fantastic and really give the book a sense of realness. This book is an excellent example of a psychological thriller - it kept me on my toes, made me think, kept me guessing and made me think. All the things I love in a good thriller! Overall, I found this to be a really satisfying thriller. It may be one of the best thrillers that I've read so far this year. Highly recommended!

This was an amazing book. Riley Sager did it again. I loved Final Girls and now I loved The Last Time I Lied. She is an amazing author with smooth and intense prose. I could hardly put this book down. Truly love Riley as an author and I cannot wait for more from her!

A good beach read .... a fast moving mystery right up my alley... quick a bit predictable fut enjoyable.

I always feel sorry for an author's book that follows a best seller. If Final Girls is the reason you chose The Last Time I Lied, be aware that they are totally separate novels. The first would be horror/thriller, the latter more mystery suspense. Yes, the psychological factors in each, but TLTIL is slower paced, in fact the detail in the first part became overwhelming. The characters are rather complex, and Mr. Sager peels the layers back slowly. That made connecting to the characters a little difficult for me. I did appreciate the second half of the story, where the promise of the premise came true, and the twists and turns began. The second half is a very well woven adventure. 3.5

I really enjoyed "Final Girls", so I was excited to read this book. Unfortunately, I just wasn't that big of a fan. The book was ok just not all i was hoping it would be. It dragged a bit for me and i felt likw there was a lot of "filler."

Now this is how you write a thriller. I was hooked from the first page and it just kept getting better. The way everything is connected and how the story unfolds is magnificent. I certainly can't wait to read another book written by this author. Bravo!

I am so conflicted about Riley Sager. I was so excited about her last book, “Final Girls,” because the premise was amazing. I felt about that book the same way I feel about this book – some parts are overly complicated, there are “twists” and “red herrings” that don’t need to be there, but in both books, I did not guess what had happened. This book bordered on the kind of book I often dislike, which are the ones that are just leading up to a big secret and literally nothing else is happening, where every chapter is taking place after the big event that everyone is covering up, and everyone is just thinking back to that big event and thinking things like, “She knew she should have told the truth back then.” I don’t need 300 pages of that. However, with a book like The Breakdown, you know there is a truth/revelation coming up, but you’re invested in the character who is fleshed out and real and there are multiple things going on. The Last Time I Lied had a lot of the, “She had lied back then” kind of statements, but at the same time, I was drawn in. I really could not guess what had happened. I started to get annoyed with Emma, like get it together, would you, but the ending was a shock, but I feel like the “clues” leading up to it weren’t directly related to this big revelation. I know it’s confusing but I don’t want to spoil anything. What I mean is, I had to go back through the book and look for the specific clues because they hadn’t been on my radar. Whether that’s a good or bad thing I don’t know – sure, I had to look things up again, but I didn’t guess that they were a big deal at the time. This review is a mess, but since the ending was a shock, I’ll give it four stars.

This had so many pages filled with nothing. The pacing crept by and basically gives up several times. Boring and dumb.

4.5★★★★Stars

Genre: Mystery Thriller
Type: Standalone
POV: First Person - Female



Emma Davis was an artist; she focus all her energy and time on her dark paintings.  A traumatizing event at Camp Nightingale left her empty.  Therefore; her paintings gave her freedom to express her feelings after so many years of guilt.



After fifteen years she was given a chance to return to the Camp where her nightmares began.  However; Emma had a big secret that I totally didn't see coming.  After lots of thinking Emma decides to accept the offer and goes back to Nightinagle.  Her life will change dramatically once again. 



This story is told from Emma’s point of view,  the author takes us back to the past and to the present times.  The story has so many mysterious scenes and I found myself questioning everything and everyone.  There were so many questions as the tension steadily increases through out the end.  Everyone is a suspect and I found myself glued to each page until the very end.  



Overall; I enjoyed this suspenseful story.  It was well written and it kept me hooked from the very first page.  This book would be appealing to readers who enjoy mystery thrillers.

Predictable and lacking mystery. I was so looking forward to this one, but found myself skim reading just to get to the end.

An ending you won’t guess. Wow! What a great read. Emma goes back to the camp where fifteen years ago her bunkmates Vivian, Natalie, and Allison disappeared without a trace. The last thing Emma remembers is blaming the son of the owner, Theo, for being the one who kidnapped the girls. But there was never any proof of it. There were no clues whatsoever. This book was fast-paced and had all kinds of twists and turns in it. At first, I thought Emma was an unreliable protagonist but as the story went on I started to believe all the weird things that were happening simply because everyone around her was just a little suspicious. Riley Sager does a great job of mixing equal parts doubt and suspicion into his novels. After reading Final Girls, I knew I had to have a copy of this one.

Thank you to Netgalley, Riley Sager, and Dutton for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Readers beware: you will not quit reading this new book by Riley Sager when it’s time to go to sleep. I LOVE these kinds of novels but am so angry at myself the next day when I’m sloppy tired. But this one’s worth it.
Emma Stone is an aspiring artist in New York. Her paintings all have the same theme: woods, dark tendrils of limbs and leaves curling around and hiding faint figures of three girls, all wearing white. The viewer will not see the girls but Emma knows they’re there, and she knows she’s to blame that they’re stuck there for eternity.
Emma was camping at an exclusive girl’s camp when her three cabin mates disappeared one night and were never heard from again. As fate tends to do, she is given a second chance to be a counselor at the newly reopened camp 15 years later. Sounds like a positive healing process for her to embark on, so with her friend’s encouragement, she packs her camping gear and heads to Camp Nightingale once more.
The camp is privately owned and has been in the family for years. The lake was created by building a dam and flooding a small community that refused to leave, casting a cloud of suspicion that’s exaggerated by being retold around the campfire, gaining more ghosts and curses with each retelling. Emma is determined to separate fact from fantasy as she digs for clues about the disappearance of her friends. Told in the first person, Emma reflects on past and present seamlessly, so little has changed while the camp sat shuttered and unoccupied for years.
This is the perfect setting for a mystery: possibly haunted camp in the woods, questionable camp employees, the rich family with dark secrets, Emma alone in her mission to snoop and solve at all costs. Like a witch over a cauldron, Riley adds a pinch of two truths, one lie, and various secrets to create the perfect nonstop read.
(I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Thank you to Penguin Group Dutton for making it available.)

"The Last Time I Lied" by Riley Sager is a book I rooted for the whole time I read it - but did it measure up to my hopeful expectations? This book is a psychological thriller and it follows main character Emma. Fifteen years ago, Emma stayed at Camp Nightingale and while she was there her three room mates went missing, never to be found again - and if you read Riley Sager's last book, that makes Emma a "final girl". Present day Emma has been invited back to Camp Nightingale as a counselor and - that's all you get, any more plot will feel spoiler-y, and it's better to play it safe! Reading this book was tough for me because I kept giving it chances - I was so hopeful that the plot would eventually work, or that one of the many twists would grab me. Unfortunately though, this was a two star read for me and not one that I would recommend to other readers.

A solid mystery, which jumps between present day and 15 years prior. The book moves somewhat slowly, with more emphasis on creating atmosphere then giving many clues, but the ending should surprise even the biggest mystery lovers.

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager started off pretty well. Emma, a successful artist but one with a secret. But then Emma is invited back to her summer camp of many years ago, and she struggles to solve the mystery of three girls who went missing during her stay there. I enjoyed the first half of this book, the story pulled me in, and I really wanted to know what happened. However, it started to drag in places, and when the story began to repeat itself, I lost interest. As a character, Emma felt a little over-wrought, she wasn't appealing in any way. She seemed so overwhelmed by what happened in the past, that even as a very successful artist, she couldn't be happy. Her life was consumed by the mystery of the missing girls. This story was a bit of a miss for me. Couldn't finish, as the story just meandered off any meaningful path.

This book has a great central mystery, of what happened to three teenage girls at a camp in the Adirondacks 15 years ago, coupled with a current story at the same camp. Overall a very interesting and engaging read.