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The Only One Left by Riley Sager | Book Review

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This was such a fun audio! The Only One Left by Riley Sager Released June 2023 Source: Library Borrow Goodreads  | Amazon Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined ...

Nothing But Mini Reviews #1

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July/August/September Mini Reviews Because I am nothing if not lazy! Here's a bunch of other stuff I've read recently(ish).  This post as been kicking around in my drafts since early summer. They're mostly audio and I often get lazy with my audio reviews because my memory is not good and I really should take notes but that would require me to do so while I'm driving or cooking or walking the dog and that's just not going to happen unless I grow another arm and eyeballs on the back of my head. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager I listened to this book on audio and it kept my attention, kept me guessing, had a lovely creepy-vibe and perfectly drawn setting and characters who didn't annoy me. I liked the main character a lot and recommend it to anyone looking for a thriller with some chills thrown in. It would make an amazing film. This is not a real review. Sorry it has been a lonnng week and I did not take notes and my brain is full of nonsense and w...

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager Review

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People love it but I'm sitting here like "meh". The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager Thriller , 384 Pages Released July 2018 Goodreads  | Buy A Copy Here   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 a...