I love an unreliable narrator. I’ve already talked about my love of suspenseful books, and one of the best tropes of the genre is knowing that you can’t trust anyone, let alone your narrator. If it doesn’t bring back memories of your summer camp experience, then you probably went on fun vacations and visited your cool aunt in France while my chubby bum spent a week at 4H camp playing icebreaker games while trying to play it cool about my crush on a kid named Zander. Camp Nightingale is the perfect setting for a summer read.
A time for arts and crafts, camp crushes and embarrassing yourself trying to be athletic in front of a bunch of kids your barely know and desperately want to like you. Why The Last Time I Lied will have you on the edge of your seat But as it always does, curiosity gets the best of Emma, and she returns as an instructor rather than a camper, hoping she can finally solve the mystery of where these girls who have stayed in her thoughts for all these years have gone. Return to the site of the worst thing that’s ever happened to her? Yeah, I wouldn’t be knocking down any doors to get there.
So when she’s asked by the camp’s wealthy owner Franny Harris-White to return, she’s not too enthused. Vivian, Natalie, and Allison – older girls who Emma idolized, disappeared in the night with no evidence left to find them. Out of the four girls in her cabin, she’s the only one who made it through the summer. Why did it take her so long to come back? Well, that first summer was pretty disastrous. So what’s it about? Ok, three paragraphs in I’ll finally tell you.Īfter 15 years away, Emma is returning the Camp Nightingale, where she spent the summer of her 13th year. So beyond the fact this book is un-put-down-able, it also broke my reading slump.
It was taking me weeks to finish anything – so long that I would kind of forget how the book started. I’m usually someone who can pick up a book and put it down the same day because I breezed through it so quickly. I was in the latter category until I picked up The Last Time I Lied.
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