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Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends. Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price. In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.
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I read this book in two days and loved every minute of it. What do you get when you cross a creepy cabin in the woods with drama worthy of Pretty Little Liars? Meet one of the most deliciously entertaining “popcorn reads” of the summer: THE LAST TIME I LIED by Riley Sager. I loved the parallels to the past and the present. If you want to know if this is like his first book in my opinion no. This is a lighter book but it's own kind of creepy. I can't wait to see what's next.
Okay, it’s my turn: two truths and a lie.
1. The only year I went to summer camp, when I was 13, a girl ran away in the middle of the night and we had the whole helicopters & bloodhounds brigade searching for her while all the rest of us campers were corralled in the mess hall to watch old movies all night. (The girl was found, completely fine, I’m very happy to say.)
2. I’ve never seen a Friday the 13th movie, and definitely didn’t keep expecting a hockey mask-wearing killer to pop up out of Lake Midnight the whole time I was reading this book.
3. This book is absolutely secretly a murdery thriller adaptation of Taylor Swift’s Sad Beautiful Tragic, and I am Living For It.
Over the top in all the best ways; I honestly thoroughly enjoyed this gleefully trope-filled novel and only called about 1/2 of the twists.