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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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randilion28's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Just like Sagers other books I've read - this was nothing short of amazing! The entire book keeps you guessing up until the very last 3 pages and then BAM! You're hit with a truth you never saw coming. You think you know what's happened, how it happened, etc... but trust me when I saw, as someone who reads A LOT of mystery/thriller books... I didn't see this ending... And I am HERE FOR IT! I love when I'm unable to guess the plot line, it makes it all the more enjoyable.

The author also describes the environment so vividly that you feel like you are there at Camp Nightingale with the girls. It has that creepy, deep woods vibe that I love reading about. I would 10/10 recommend this read! 
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hauntedantiqueshop's review

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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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gneumann's review

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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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epeolatrist's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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rebeccarc's review against another edition

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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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katiejohns's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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astoriareader's review

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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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velsbooknook's review

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dark mysterious tense

3.0

The story follows Emma, who is back at camp Nightingale, after three of her friends vanished fifteen years ago. There is still a lot of her past to uncover.
 This book had a very odd start and I almost dnf it. The first 70 pages are about Emma and her life as an artist. I was very bored and I was just waiting for the actual story to start. 
Once arrived at camp I really enjoyed the atmosphere and setting. I sadly found the characters rather dull and overall the story did not grip me as much as other thrillers did. 
It is definitely a good choice for a camping trip and an eerie and atmospheric read. 

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blackcatkai's review against another edition

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

4.5

CW: Mental Illness, gaslighting, ableism, alcoholism, disordered eating, body shaming/fatphobia, murder, death, bullying, violence, blood, toxic friendship, suicide attempt, grief, cancer/terminal illness, some sexual content

I'm not necessarily entirely happy with the mental illness rep, but overall, I really enjoyed this. that ending, I swear. I love Riley Sager's writing and I'm so glad I finally got to this one.
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erinlynneee's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Okay. Look. I may have seen someone on booktok talking shit about Riley Sager and it MAY have had me a little tiny bit hesitant to go into this book. But y’all, it slapped!! 

Emma is 13 and sent to Camp Nightingale for her first summer away from home. Having arrived late, she ends up in a cabin with three older girls. They become friends, they laugh, they play games. And then the three older girls vanish, poof, gonna. Fifteen years later, Emma is an artist and is asked back to the re-opened Camp Nightingale to teach young girls how to paint. Does she go to gain some closure? Or is she just stirring the pot? 
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