While subtle, it’s a slick move by Sager, keeping a similar enough formula but with a vastly different story. The only survivor from her cabin, Emma shares a similarity with Quincy Carpenter and the other “final girls” in Sager’s last novel, which featured a group of women who were each the lone survivor of various murderous acts. The story picks up fifteen years after the girls vanished, following Emma, who suffered serious PTSD when her bunkmates never returned. That was the last time anyone ever saw Vivian, Natalie, or Allison. A short while later, all the girls, sans Emma, sneak out of their cabin and into the dark of the night for a little fun. Riley Sager follows up last year’s Final Girls by taking readers inside the small space that is the Dogwood cabin (they’re all named after trees) where four young girls, Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma Davis, the only first-timer out of the bunch, play a harmless game of Two Truths and a Lie one summer night. Now forget all that stuff, because Camp Nightingale isn’t some Disney special. Imagine the friendly Camp Walden summer camp where twin sisters met for the first time in Parent Trap, or the fun, junk-food utopia that was Camp Hope in the movie Heavyweights.
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