I enjoyed Riley Sager's first book, "
Final Girls", and this sophomore effort did not disappoint. When Emma was thirteen, she went to a summer camp called Camp Nightingale, and ended up bunking with three older girls. One night the three girls mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Emma has been suffering from survivor's guilt for the last fifteen years, painting the missing girls over and over again. The wealthy patroness of the camp wants to reopen it, and she asks Emma to be a counselor. Despite her misgivings, Emma agrees and bunks in the same bunkhouse as before with three young girls. Who then go missing one night. Can we trust Emma? It sure doesn't feel like it. It was taunt and suspenseful, really good.
Anne Bogel's "I'd Rather Be Reading" is a love letter to everyone who struggles with completing household chores rather than spending the day reading, for everyone who spent their birthday and Christmas money on books rather than clothes, for everyone who knows they will never live long enough to get to everything on their To Read List and yet keep adding to it. In short, people like me :) It was a sweet, short tribute to those of us who love books and reading, who live to recommend and share good books with others.
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