This was my fifth Riley Sager book and I’m starting to have problems with his writing style.

His twists are always fire so I’m not gonna crap on that. The problem is he writes too much description when unneeded and he doesn’t write enough detail when it IS needed. When he chronicles a character’s journey through a house or, in the case of this novel, a campground the characteristics of the environment feel unclear despite the abundance at which he prattles on.

He also writes his protagonists with near identical troublesome personalities, which so far have all been women. With the exception of Kit from The Only One Left, his leading ladies are either unreliable narrators and/or have serious mental health issues, which wouldn’t be a problem at all if not for the frequency at which Sager uses this trope.

As for this book, The Last Lie I Told…I would definitely recommend it. As with all his books you can guess what you believe is happening but you’re wrong. You’re always wrong. HOWEVER, the person with the most to hide and responsible for the disappearance of the girls in present time became increasingly obvious the further I read.

If this had been my first Sager book I would have marveled at its contents. But I’m figuring out his formula which takes a bit of the fun out of the story.