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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

28 reviews

madisonjordan5693's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

author_d_r_oestreicher's review

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

 

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager. Thirteen-year-old Emma Davis goes to Camp Nightingale and gets assigned to Dogwood Cabin with three 16-year-old girls. They vanish. The girls are not found, and the camp is shut down. Emma feels guilty, PTSD-guilty, rehab-guilty. When the camp reopens 15 years later, she ends up in Dogwood again with three different teenage girls. These girls also disappear, and she is the prime suspect. There are so many suspects that until the end, you can never be sure. A well-written and fast-moving mystery. 
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Alcohol, Child death, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

hauntedantiqueshop's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Not great 🫥  the only unpredictable twist was literally the last page and it could should have gone without! And if you’d have taken a shot every time “lie” was written in the book, you’d die of alcohol poisoning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content and Stalking

gneumann's review

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

i wish the twist wasn’t revealed in the second person. i didn’t like the second person chapters. it took away from the impact.

 

this was fun! i’ve enjoyed sager’s other books more, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Murder, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Forced institutionalization

rebeccarc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Read it with someone else, but they never even started it, and I wanted and never read more. I'm gonna try this again alone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, and Cancer

Minor: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Stalking

aprilblues348's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Violence, Murder, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Death, Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, and Toxic friendship

ash_ton's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this is my second read from riley sager and i gotta say, he stays winning

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Medical content, Confinement, Death, Toxic friendship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Alcohol, Car accident, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Blood, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Drug use

astoriareader's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

SYNOPSIS:

• Fifteen years ago, Emma Davis went to summer camp, and her three cabin mates snuck out in the middle of the night & they vanished without a trace.
• In the present day, Emma is an artist & living in NYC. The owner of the summer camp is reopening the camp, and she asks if Emma wants to return as an art instructor. Emma decides to go for it, as a way to get closure.
• At camp, Emma is paired in a cabin with three teenagers, and history begins to repeat itself. 

MY THOUGHTS

• Atmospheric thriller. I enjoyed the summer camp setting.
• Interesting premise.

SPOILERS

• Ugh, okay, spoilers ahead as to why I went 3 stars on this one.
• I don’t really feel like Riley Sager, aka Todd Ritter, should be writing so many characters from women’s POV, particularly about a teenage girl getting her first period.
• If y’all play two truths & a lie one more time, I am going to lose it.
• Every character is accused at some point.
• What was even the point of the whole asylum backstory?! 
• The first clue that she finds is in a trunk?! What? Has it been there 15 years? Why does she need the map anyway?
• Emma’s “secrets" were not very interesting. She was 13, and they were totally understandable, given her age, maturity, and the situation.
• Okay, so where did Vivian go? She was a teenager. Where had she been living? How did she have money? A statewide manhunt was underway for the girls. Make it make sense.

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ehhh, not my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Violence, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Cancer

c100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

cassg's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual content and Death