Careful What You Wish For by Hallie Ephron

Careful What You Wish For

by Hallie Ephron

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Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘📘
Genre - Psychological Thrillers, Fiction, Murder Thrillers
Format - Paperback
Pages - 285


*Amazon Blurb*

Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she’s married to man who can’t drive past a yard sale without stopping. He’s filled their basement, attic, and garage with his finds.
Like other professionals who make a living decluttering peoples’ lives, Emily has devised a set of ironclad rules. When working with couples, she makes clear that the client is only allowed to declutter his or her own stuff. That stipulation has kept Emily’s own marriage together these past few years. She’d love nothing better than to toss out all her husband’s crap. He says he’s a collector. Emily knows better—he’s a hoarder. The larger his “collection” becomes, the deeper the distance grows between Emily and the man she married.
Luckily, Emily’s got two new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didn’t know existed, and a young wife whose husband won’t allow her stuff into their house. Emily’s initial meeting with the young wife takes a detour when, after too much wine, the women end up fantasizing about how much more pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses.
But the next day Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. Careful what you wish for, the old adage says . . . now Emily might lose her freedom, her marriage . . . and possibly her life.

*My Review* 

Who would've thought that being a simple organizational person could make your life a mess. For Emily it's harder than you'd think. She is married to a hoarder who lives for garage sales. Emily is just trying to get her new business off the ground and be successful. Unfortunately, you never know who your client will be or what it is that they need help with. That's why you meet up with your possible clients though, right? Even once the ground rules are set, sometimes you get in over your head before you realize what's happened.
It seems the more Emily tries to help her two new clients the more messy her life becomes. Instead of just trying to help people get more organized, she is trying to help herself stay out of jail.
I had my suspicions early on in the book for the who did what. I was pretty much right, but at the end I was still shocked when all the cards were laid out.

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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

The Last Time I Lied

by Riley Sager

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Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘📘
Genre - Psychological Thrillers, Murder Thrillers, Contemporary Women Fiction
Format - Audio-book

*Amazon Blurb*
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. 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. When the paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees.

Familiar faces, unchanged cabins, and the same dark lake haunt Nightingale, even though the camp is opening its doors for the first time since the disappearances. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, but soon discovers a security camera--the only one on the property--pointed directly at its door. Then cryptic clues that Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins begin surfacing. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing mysterious threats in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale and what really happened to those girls, the more she realizes that closure could come at a deadly price.

*My Review* 

This book keeps you on the edge of your seat. How can three girls just disappear without a trace? Emma spends her life wondering this very questions and blames herself for the girls disappearance, but who is responsible?
The story goes back and forth between when Emma attended camp as a young girl and now, as an adult. She is hoping to be able to get some closure about what happened to the girls so long ago. Instead, she finds herself right back in the same situation.
I kept trying to figure out who could've taken the girls, but every time I thought I knew, I'd end up changing my mind. Can you figure it out before the end?