Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I'm a huge fan of Megan Miranda. I read All the Missing Girls with my book club and we all really enjoyed it. So when I was browsing NetGalley saw Megan's latest "The Last House Guest" I jumped on it and I'm so glad I did.

Avery and Sadie have been friends for over a decade. Sadie comes from a Rich and powerful family but that didn't mean a thing in their friendship. One night, Sadie is found dead. Her death is ruled a suicide which leaves Avery wondering how big of a secret was Sadie keeping from her, that let her to kill herself?

As always, Miranda's writing sucks you right in. It was easy to suspect so many people in Sadie's death, but you are kept guessing until the very end.

This is due out in May and is the perfect Beach Read!

Avery and Sadie have become friends, even though Sadie Loman's family practically own Littleport, and Avery is not in the same league. Friends they become though and Avery gets a job through Sadie' s dad. One summer Sadie commits suicide, that's the official ruling, but Avery feels there's more to it. I enjoyed this one a lot! I read it fast because I couldn't put it down. There's secrets, which always happens in a small town community. It was fast-paced, the characters were interesting, the plot was executed well, and the writing was superb. Another great one by Megan Miranda!

*Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Absolutely loved this new one from Megan Miranda. She brought the setting to life and masterfully alternated between timelines to keep me on the edge of my seat.

I love Megan Miranda's books so much! I was so excited to get to read this arc before it is published. It will definitely be a big summer hit!
Littleport, Maine is an idyllic summer coastal town. It is divided by the summer guests, and the "townies". Avery is on of the only residents to cross the divide and begins to work for the Lomans. an extremely wealthy family. The Lomans have been buying property around Littleport to rent for the summer, and Avery begins to manage them while the Lomans are away. Sadie Loman and Avery had become best friends, and Avery was able to live in the guest house of the Loman's main property.
The novel begins at the "Plus One" party. A tradition started by the kids of the wealthy summer vacationers whose parents have left to return to their regular jobs and lives, but the older kids stay one more week and throw one heck of a party.
Avery's world is flipped upside down when Sadie commits suicide during the party by throwing herself of the rocks on the edge of the ocean.
Avery never quite believes Sadie would kill herself, and when weird things begin happening in some of the Loman's rental properties, she is certain someone is trying to stop her from finding out the truth.
While this was not my favorite of Miranda's novels, I still enjoyed the twists and turns of the story. I could never quite figure out who was telling the truth, and how trustworthy a narrator Avery was. Still a great read!

Megan Miranda has written another fast-paced thriller in the same vein as her previous works All The Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger. Avery Greer is seeking answers a year after her friend Sadie Loman's death. Though the death was ruled a suicide, she is not convinced. Thus, begins a whirlwind investigation that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Miranda reveals the timeline of events that led up to Sadie's death chapter by chapter, alternating between that fateful night and the present investigation in which Avery is embroiled.

I love a book that has multiple layers of mystery and this one delivers just that reading recipe. Though I honed in on one of the mystery layers early in the book I was pleased to be completely surprised by the final twist at the book's conclusion. The two main characters, Avery and Sadie, have depth and are well-developed with their motivations and internal struggles becoming evident throughout the book. However, I felt like some of the Loman family members and peripheral characters were a bit underdeveloped. For readers who gravitate to plot driven narrative this will not be an issue. I highly recommend this one for all thriller/suspense fans! Many thanks to Simon and Schuster and NetGalley for this advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

I am a huge Megan Miranda fan-girl and had to jump on her latest, which does not disappoint! Pick up a Miranda novel and you'll be treated to a slow burn psychological thriller completely driven by its strong female protagonist. The backdrop for The Last House Guest is a small, seasonal beach town in Maine where a suicide (but maybe murder?) takes place during the final week of the previous summer season. And that is just the beginning of a story about the "invisible" residents of a town made by its summer crowd, the secrets people keep--and are willing to reveal, and the bonds of family.
While I definitely enjoyed every moment of the story, I wasn't quite as taken with it as Miranda's other novels. The setup was wonderful, but the final act just wasn't quite as tight as her previous novels.
However, I'd recommend anything from Megan Miranda--she's just THAT good.

First, I want to thank Megan Miranda, Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda Is one of those books I can see as a Saturday night feature movie on Lifetime Movie Network.

I loved the cover of The Last House Guest. It was unique and clever and yet so perfect for this book. Kudos to the graphic designer.

The book had my attention from the beginning when Avery when didn’t know where Sadie was. When she didn’t reply to any of her texts. Then my heart felt for her when we learned she died. This is the story and investigation on what happened to her.

Megan Miranda is a talented author. I have enjoyed many of her novels and am always looking forward to her upcoming releases. The Last House Guest was just as good as I was anticipating (I really didn't expect anything less). I was caught up in the whirlwind mystery and so intrigued by the small town community that I had no choice but to keep reading long after I was supposed to be in bed. This is a great book- very character driven, exciting (especially for those who love a mystery) and top notch as for how the ending goes. I recommend it.

Set in the idyllic summer town of Littleport, Maine, The Last House Guest follows main character, Avery Greer's attempts to uncover the truth behind her best friend, Sadie Loman's, apparent suicide in the summer of 2017. Both Avery and Sadie come from two different worlds, Avery a local and Sadie a wealthy summertime visitor, but somehow their worlds came together and an unlikely friendship formed. Told in both the present and the past, the story develops as Avery begins to discover clues in the summer following her friend Sadie's supposed suicide that lead her to believe that Sadie's death may in fact be a homicide. In this fast paced thriller, Avery begins to uncover family secrets, unlikely relationships, and doubt everything she knew about her own life as she tries to dig to the bottom of Sadie's death and reveal the truth. The Last House Guest will leave you continually wondering which characters you can trust and which characters are harboring more secrets.

This is the third Megan Miranda book that I have indulged in as a pleasure read. Among the three books that I have read by Miranda, The Last House Guest would come in second to All the Missing Girls, but rank higher than The Perfect Stranger. I found main character, Avery very likable and relatable. As a reader you wanted to see her succeed in the end. Miranda also does a good job of making her other primary character, Sadie Loman, mysterious enough to make you want to continually know more about who this person really is, what she is hiding, and how she really died. Overall, The Last House Guest was an enjoyable, fast paced read and I look forward to more from Megan Miranda in the future.

I generally enjoy Megan Miranda’s books for not only their suspense, but also for their consistently well done emotional characterizations. In The Last House Guest, Avery Greer flashes back and forth to the night her best friend, Sadie Loman, died. She never has quite believed it was a suicide, and as her life continues to remain intertwined with that of the mighty Loman family, Avery slowly and inevitably unravels the truth behind what went down the night of Sadie’s death, and she faces those who ultimately set the stage for all that happened then and now.
While the first half was paced well enough, the second half seemed to meander and the pacing felt sluggish. The ending was just okay; a little too coincidental in several resolutions. Worth a read but Miranda’s written better.

Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors.

Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl—but that’s just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable—until Sadie is found dead. While the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community, including a local detective and Sadie’s brother, Parker, who blame her. Someone knows more than they’re saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name, before the facts get twisted against her.

I loved Megan Miranda’s book, Perfect Stranger, so as soon as I saw that she had another book coming out I was just dying to get my hands on it! She is one heck of a story teller, I could not put this one down! Throughout the book you go back and forth between the past and present and I think that really helped the story keep you guessing. I love books like this one that is a little harder to figure out and has strong female characters. Highly recommend!

Thank you #NetGalley for the ARC of The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
Pub Date: 18 Jun 2019

Big fan of this one! I"ll definitely have to check out the author's other books. I called the last plot twist a mile away, but other than that, it was a fun read that kept me guessing and entertained.

I received an advance reader's copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book is very well-written and has a very well-crafted narrative, the focus however is more on the girls' relationship and class tropes than on psychological suspense, I was interested in the girls but not the mystery. 3.5 rounded up

Another great Megan Miranda story! Avery and Sadie have been friends for awhile, but Sadie is from a prominent local family, while Avery is the hired help. Nevertheless, they are best friends.
At a year end party, Sadie hasn’t shown up. Everyone in town is there....where is Sadie? Soon, her body is discovered, ruled a suicide.
But was it really a suicide? Avery owes it to Sadie to find out.
The Last House Guest is a twisting mystery leaving you guessing until the end.

This was a super well-done thriller! I hadn’t read any of Miranda’s work prior to The Last House Guest, but now I definitely want to read more. One thing that really stuck out to me was the story’s setting in the town of Littleport, Maine. The quaintness of the place and its scenery, at once beautiful and dangerous, were threaded so strongly to the narrative and really pulled me in as the reader. It invoked feelings of familiarity that I don’t often experience from fictional locations, and drew me into the town’s drama as if I was one of its summertime visitors. The mystery itself was also captivating, and I was kept in suspense til the very end in regards to everyone’s role in the events of Avery and Sadie’s lives. All in all, this is one of the better thrillers I’ve read in a long time and I look forward to whatever Megan Miranda writes next!

First and foremost, let me say, Megan Moran’s a is one of my favorite authors. I fell in love with All The Missing Girls, and have got my hands on everything since. The Last House Guest was another {5 STAR} Megan Miranda book for me. She’s phenomenal. This book kept my guessing until the last pages. I always wonder, how is this going to end, and I’ve not guessed it right yet! That’s one thing I love about her books. This one is no exception. I cannot say enkugh good things about this!!! It’s immersive and moves at such a good pace and the characters are relatable and well developed

OMG THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD!

5/5 stars for The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda

This story has everything - great characters, a setting that makes you feel as if you are on vacation, and twists and turns that kept me guessing until the last page. It's one of those rare books that leaves you shocked at the end and saying "wow!". I finished it last night and am just getting to writing my review because I am so sad that it is over!

Many thanks to the publisher and netgalley, who provided me a free copy of this ebook in exchange for my honest review.

This book was a quick easy read. The mystery kept me guessing until the very end. I have read several of Megan Miranda books and this book makes me want to read more. Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

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I was honored to receive a digital copy from @netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I haven’t read any Megan Miranda novels, although I know her book All the Missing Girls was a big hit a few years ago. I enjoy female-driven suspense and was excited to check this one out!

The story follows Avery, a twenty-something young woman living in a vacation town in coastal Maine. Last summer, her best friend Sadie was found dead near the rocky shore, and it was ruled a suicide. But now Avery is discovering inconsistencies in the story of what happened that night and feels compelled to discover the truth about what happened to Sadie.

The plot started out slow and it took until about the 25% mark for the mystery to present itself. Then it took nearly half the book for me to finally get a handle on the story. I couldn’t quite figure out all the characters, the timelines, and how they fit together. Once I did, I enjoyed the story although I never quite felt invested in our main character and the prose, while well-written, had a distant quality. The setting, a coastal vacation town in Maine, was well-tendered and lent a spooky atmosphere to the book. Once the plot got going, there were some interesting twists and turns and the ending felt satisfying for the genre.

Overall a solid addition to the ever-popular female-driven suspense genre. I read it during vacation and it kept my interest once I got past the halfway point.

I really enjoyed Miranda’s Perfect Stranger. It definitely had what it takes to stand out in the homogenous sea of female authored female driven domestic thrillers that are so ubiquitous these days. I’m obviously not the only one who thinks so, because I’m yet to read her other thriller, it’s always out at the library. So naturally when her latest showed up on Netgalley, I requested it immediately without even reading the description. I’m not regretting the choice, though I did like this one less than The Perfect Stranger. But…but objectively this was still very good, the quality is still there. I very much appreciate the fact that the author doesn’t follow the clichéd genre formulas and genuinely takes the time to craft a proper literary thriller. Avoiding cheap thrills, Miranda goes for story and character development instead, these are technically thrillers, but more so crime dramas as in serious dramatic fiction featuring a crime (or several crimes as the case may be). Plus it’s all as darkly psychological as I like. The characters might have been somewhat too young (mid 20s), but interesting in their own way. At the center of the story is a fascinating power dynamic of a friendship. Avery and Sadie, two girls from very different worlds. Essentially an upstairs/downstairs drama, American style, set in a small resort town in Maine, where one wealthy family has all the power and all the money. Or so it would seem. The best parties, every privilege, every entitlement…and yet not entirely safe after all as they find out when Sadie, their daughter, turns up dead. Her best friend Avery, a local girl who for years has been involved with the Lomans personally and financially, almost but not quite one of the family, sets off to find out the truth, which turns out far uglier than she might have ever suspected. So there is plenty of suspense for genre fans, but what attracted me personally was the dramatic writing. The juxtaposition of two different world, the summer guests and the locals, the way they depend on each other and resent each other at the same time, it’s the classic power struggles isolated to one idyllic small town. The callous way that money rules the world and the devastation it leaves in its wake. All of that is done very well in this novel. Plus I’ve always been fascinated by a year round living in a vacation town. The way the place comes alive so vividly in the summer and hibernates the rest of the time. Is it still as happy and shiny of a destination when the visitors leave and the party is over. Would you ever want to be the last guest? So yeah, there is much to like here. Personally I didn’t especially engage with the characters and found the book to be slightly longer than the plot demanded, ever so slightly stretched out. (Although it did read pretty quickly, actually. Easy one morning/afternoon read.) But other than that, it was a very enjoyable book. Thanks Netgalley.