This is the second book I read by Riley Sager, Lock Every Door being the first one. I gotta admit, I think Sager's way of writing is growing in me. He simply doesn't disappoint and his books certainly live up to the hype.
In The Last Time I lied, we are introduced to twenty-eight-year-old Emily as she unravels the big bang that sends shock waves throughout the four-hundred-or-so-page-long book fifteen years ago—the disappearance of her three fellow roommates in Camp Nightingale. Riddled with guilt and shame, her life is in disarray, spending her time painting landscapes of forests with the three girls buried beneath layers of paint. One day, at her gallery, a woman named Franny, the one who owns the camp and the surrounding swaths of land, pays her a visit and invites her to the camp as an art instructor. Emily's thought is to turn down the offer, but after some thinking, she accepts it with reluctance; she needs closure.
The book is medium-sized, but I wasn't distracted or felt bored. The story is so engrossing and so atmospheric. Sager's descriptions were spot-on and minimalistic focusing on the dynamics between the characters and their character building. There are of course things I didn't like about the book. One of them is the two-dimensional nature of some of the side characters. But they are 'side characters' after all and their background stories or their mind processes don't advance the plot, so all is forgiven.
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Summary: The Last Time I Lied is a story about guilt, forgiveness, revenge, and letting go of the past. It's a brilliantly told story, so intricate and so gripping, you won't put the book down until you reach the final page. And boy, what a hell of an ending that was!
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