Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager 5*****

𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/𝟱

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿

𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀: 𝟯𝟴𝟰

Oh my golly wow… as the Stylistics would say!

This is hands down my favourite Riley Sager of all time. I almost thought he’d let me down by giving me a lukewarm ending, but then that final twist came and it just blew me away.

This was pure entertainment, made even more fun by a wonderful buddy-read 2 Instagram friends in which we debated on every possible plot-line, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink, but still didn’t get it right.

Emma is a young painter, still struggling with an awful experience in her youth when her 3 friends disappeared from their cabin 15 years ago during a summer camp. Never to be seen again.

Now she has agreed to return there for one last summer, hoping to finally lay the ghosts to rest.

This was such a clever book. Riley Sager has outdone himself with this little gem, placing some great little twists that had me gasping out loud and thumping my fists in the air. Although he plays with the unreliable narrator, it’s done very subtly and Emma’s actions are all quite plausible and coherent.

There are two timelines, one in which we follow Emma in the present-day as she goes back to Camp Nightingale trying to discover what happened that fateful night and another set 15 years earlier when the girls went missing.

I can’t tell you much about the plot without giving major spoilers, but if you like a clever and atmospheric thriller that will have you spitting out your coffee… (literally) this is it!

So buckle up and pick this up now!

5 stars from me!