I'm giving this a 3.5 star rating. I found the beginning of the story to be very slow moving and I didn't find much of the mystery to be too interesting. The ending of the book was totally unexpected and that's why I'm giving this a 3.5 star rating as opposed to 3 stars. Through the mystery of the story, we realize that sometimes in life, we don't know who we can trust. Olivia, the main character of this story, certainly learned that lesson as well. This was an ok story, but I just felt like it dragged on too much for my liking.

Thank you Netgalley and Simon and Schuster for the advance of this novel. I’m a huge Megan Miranda fan of both her YA and adult novels. I love the slow burn of her writing and that they’re not graphic but rather cerebral thrillers. Arden’s story is similar to Baby Jessica who fell into the well and the nation held their breath waiting for her to be rescued only Arden was swept away in a storm while sleep walking and was found in a storm drain. The twists and turns are nuts when, as an adult with a new identity, she wakes up again only with a dead body at her feet. This will be a great summer read for sure.

Gripping mystery with a few twists and turns that I did not see coming. Kept me up all night and into the next day wanting to know how it all would come together. Definitely recommend!

Megan Miranda is one of my annual: can’t-wait-for-the-newest-book-release-to-hit-shelves anticipatory waiting games. She is a master writer and one of my favorite books I read each year. This story felt so
Different than all her others. At times I felt it was hard to follow all of the characters but with the crazy twist at the end with Olivia/Arden’s back story coming full circle - I am left, once again, praising Miranda’s talent. Already counting down to her 2021 release!

Truly Megan Miranda has become one of
My top favorite authors throughout the years! And she did not disappoint with this one. It is so suspenseful you literally cannot put down the book without finishing it! A must read!

Well it’s been a while since I have started and finished a book in 24 hours. This book was exactly what I needed during my downtime and not being able to leave the house. I loved the book from beginning to end. I will say that I was fooled several times and couldn’t guess who did it! I don’t want to give anything away but I recommend all thriller and suspense fans pick this up when it comes out on 6.23.20. Thanks you NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this one. At first I wasn’t sure where things were going with what happened to Olivia twenty years ago. But when it finally started to make sense, I loved it. I was not expecting the ending at all.

I enjoyed this very much. A fascinating premise that kept me guessing the whole book. I didn't see the end coming. at all.

Holy smokes!! What a wild ride this book was!?! The whole time I was trying to figure it out but just couldn’t. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can’t wait until it’s out so I can recommend it to all of my friends.

The Girl from Widow Hills is another hit by Megan Miranda. With a plot line that keeps you turning the pages way past your bedtime, and a cast of characters you can’t quite figure out, Miranda’s newest is sure to please suspense readers.

Imagine you're a woman with a troubled past living alone in the middle of nowhere, your house set far from the road, and have no one around to help you but the elderly man next door if something were to go bump in the night. You're also prone to sleepwalking, and you keep finding yourself out on the lawn at ungodly hours... What could go wrong? A whole lot, apparently. There were so many twists and turns that every time I thought I'd figured out the ending, I realized I was miles off. The pacing, character development, and psychological fuckery were all seriously on point, but the setting was the icing on the cake. (That said, I've lived in small-town North Carolina before, and this book took me right back.) I finished this off in two sittings after DNFing three other books back to back.

Thanks to Simon and Schuster and NetGalley for providing an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This one just never really quite gelled for me. I’m not sure what was missing (perhaps a sense of urgency?) but for me it just didn’t really come together in a way that I wanted to keep reading and find out what happened. Megan Miranda fans will enjoy this, though

I’ve been in a bad reading slump for a couple months. With everything going on in the world and reading books that haven’t been that good lately I lost that spark in me to want to read.

Luckily, I came across this book. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Having never read any previous novel from this author I didn’t know what to expect. I really liked the writing, the plot and the ending. Probably one of the best books I’ve read all year.

If you like a good mystery/thriller this is the book for you. I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC. I can honestly say I’m back to my old reading ways and I have this book to thank for it. Get yourself a copy!

I can’t believe this is the third summer galley I’ve read in a row that deals with missing memories and dissociative states....that said, I thought this was the best of the three. I actually was surprised by the final twist at the end! Olivia is a really well written character. It is super easy to feel her emotions and anxiety and empathize with her situation. I’m also glad there was NO major romantic subplot. It’s really frequent in thrillers and often poorly done. I liked that this was totally focused on Olivia and her story and her own journey to overcome.

Olivia had a childhood trauma that she wants to leave in the past. It seems like that’s not going to happen. The twists and turns had me dizzy! I didn’t know who or what to believe. This book kept me glued to my e-reader all the way to the shocking end. Megan Miranda can surely spin a thrilling tale.

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

Above average thriller with an interesting premise

I found this book to be pretty good. I had read Miranda's previous book, The Last House Guest (a Reese Witherspoon pick), but found this one to be much more interesting and better constructed. I love seeing good authors get even better.

Olivia was just six when she was sleepwalking a went missing. Her search and rescue was national news. Now in her late twenties, she has changed her name and try to move on. The world, however, still wants a piece of her. They feel they deserve to be part of her life as they were so invested in her rescue.

Thanks to Netgalley for the free, advance copy. Read this one when it comes out in June- well constructed and engaging thriller.

Megan Miranda has become a go to author for me in the past couple of years. She knows how to write to keep us readers entertained and on the edge of our seats. I couldn’t wait to read The Girl from Widow Hills and it didn’t disappoint. This book is intriguing and kept me guessing about what happened. As always, I look forward to reading more from this author.

Not a bad story, but not super thrilling. Sort of unreliable narrator, everyone is a shady character, people reemerge from the past, different directions. This book has a lot of points hit as a thriller, but it also didn't develop many characters and relationships. I had a lot of thoughts about where the story would go and what each character was thinking/what their motives were. But in the end, I sort of got ahead of Olivia/Arden and saw where it was going and ehhh. It was just ok.

The Premise: A 6 year old Arden sleepwalks and goes missing in the night only to be found 3 days later in a storm drain. The story was so extraordinary, her mother cashes in on it and writes a book. The pressure of it all eventually gets to Arden, so she changes her name and disappears. Flash forward 23 years and Arden is now 30 years old and going by the name Olivia. Suddenly she starts sleepwalking again only to find a man's dead body. Who is this person? How did he die? How is he connected to Arden?

WOW!! Now that sounds like one heck of a mystery!

The Reality: This book sounded like it was going to be a great and twisty thriller, and I was so excited to read it. However, I was pretty disappointed. There was a lot of unnecessary exposition and that made the pacing slow. (Seems like it took me forever to get through this one).
The mystery itself was fairly blah. There were many characters (all of which were pretty uninspiring) and red herrings introduced to throw the reader off. Despite that, the ending was predictable and a bit boring.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon&Schuster for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Well told thriller! This is a book that keeps you up at night! This is my second book I have read of hers, and it did not disappoint!