“Everything is a game, Em. Whether you know it or not. Which means that sometimes a lie is more than just a lie. Sometimes it's the only way to win.”
This thriller is Riley Sager's second book, pseudonym for Todd Ritter, being the first one Final Girls.
Emma Davis is a 28 yo painter that had a traumatic past: when she was 13, her roomates from her cabin at Camp, disappeared with just one trace: a sweater. 15 years later, Franny, the Camp’s owner and mother of one of the suspects, asks Emma to return as monitor to reopen the Camp after that event.
Because of the event that happened 15 years ago, we have two timelines: present and 15 years before. The writing is set in the first person, Emma, and from the start, the author makes us question Emma’s innocence.
I couldn’t help to notice that the first half is very slow paced and the second very fast. In the first half the author attempts to create suspense but fails to do so, making the reading kind of boring with all the descriptions and Emma’s forced introspection. I the second half is pretty dynamic and with plot twists that I wasn’t counting on.
I didn’t feel any connection to Emma. It’s not well structured and the author has a chance to explore the mental illness to bring emotion to the character, but failed to do so. The other characters, although they fall into the thriller’s stereotype of character, they were better developed to the point to feel more connection to them than to Emma.
The plot is well constructed as well as the ending. The point here is that I would rather see a better character development than the excess of environment description.
This is a perfect thriller to get you started in the genre.
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