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amandasbookreview 's review for:
The Girl from Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda
Thank you to NetGalley, Megan Miranda, and Simon & Schuster for the opportunity to read this book!
The Girl From Widow Hills is the first book that I have read by author Megan Miranda. I have seen so many of her other books floating around on Bookstagram so I had to check out her latest book, which publishes on June 23rd, 2020! This book introduces Olivia Maynor, she works in a hospital. She has friends but for the most part, she lives alone and keeps to herself. She has a reason, she is keeping a secret that she does not want anyone finding out. She is also known as Arden Olivia Maynor. When she was 6 years-old she vanished, only to be found 3 days later in a storm drain. Her story took the country by storm. She was stalked and constantly under scrutiny. So she forged a new identity. One night she wakes up after sleepwalking, to find herself tripping over a dead body. She has no defensive wounds, so she couldn’t have possibly killed him? Only her past can give her the answers she is searching for…
I love thrillers. But it is difficult to find one that I truly love. Because I have read so many it is difficult to not be able to predict the storyline. In this book, I loved the characters and I LOVE how it is only from Olivia’s point-of-view, except for the few flashbacks. Most thrillers nowadays have multiple points-of-view and the story gets muddled trying to tie everything together. But this novel focuses on Olivia and her perspective. I love Olivia. I understood her reasoning for keeping to herself and her fierce dedication to survival. In fact, I enjoyed all the characters in this story. I thought they all played a significant role throughout and played off of each other really well.
However, the story was so slow. Besides finding the dead body and the ending, not a whole lot happens. I don’t want to give too much information because the ending actually surprised me. It had a very gutsy ending and I was shocked—which is not easy to do. However, there were too many moments that could have been wrapped up a bit quicker to keep the pace moving. While reading this book I was in a FitBit competition and read this book while I walked around the house. If I wasn’t walking and reading I may have been tempted to fall asleep.
Like I said before, there are a lot of aspects that I did enjoy about this book, enough to make me eager to pick up another one of her books! Which one should I read next? Anyway, this book gets 3 out of 5 stars from me.
The Girl From Widow Hills is the first book that I have read by author Megan Miranda. I have seen so many of her other books floating around on Bookstagram so I had to check out her latest book, which publishes on June 23rd, 2020! This book introduces Olivia Maynor, she works in a hospital. She has friends but for the most part, she lives alone and keeps to herself. She has a reason, she is keeping a secret that she does not want anyone finding out. She is also known as Arden Olivia Maynor. When she was 6 years-old she vanished, only to be found 3 days later in a storm drain. Her story took the country by storm. She was stalked and constantly under scrutiny. So she forged a new identity. One night she wakes up after sleepwalking, to find herself tripping over a dead body. She has no defensive wounds, so she couldn’t have possibly killed him? Only her past can give her the answers she is searching for…
I love thrillers. But it is difficult to find one that I truly love. Because I have read so many it is difficult to not be able to predict the storyline. In this book, I loved the characters and I LOVE how it is only from Olivia’s point-of-view, except for the few flashbacks. Most thrillers nowadays have multiple points-of-view and the story gets muddled trying to tie everything together. But this novel focuses on Olivia and her perspective. I love Olivia. I understood her reasoning for keeping to herself and her fierce dedication to survival. In fact, I enjoyed all the characters in this story. I thought they all played a significant role throughout and played off of each other really well.
However, the story was so slow. Besides finding the dead body and the ending, not a whole lot happens. I don’t want to give too much information because the ending actually surprised me. It had a very gutsy ending and I was shocked—which is not easy to do. However, there were too many moments that could have been wrapped up a bit quicker to keep the pace moving. While reading this book I was in a FitBit competition and read this book while I walked around the house. If I wasn’t walking and reading I may have been tempted to fall asleep.
Like I said before, there are a lot of aspects that I did enjoy about this book, enough to make me eager to pick up another one of her books! Which one should I read next? Anyway, this book gets 3 out of 5 stars from me.