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The Last House Guest
by Megan Miranda
This twisty turny thriller follows a local small-town Mainer, Avery, as she delves into the suspicious death of her wealthy out-of-towner best friend, Sadie, a year earlier. Switching from present day to the night of Sadie’s death, Avery pieces together the jumbled mess of memory and the subterfuge of a wealthy family out to protect their secrets. It’ll have you staying up late and getting up early to keep turning pages and discovering what really happened at the fateful end of season party. With a narrator like Avery you’ll find yourself wanting to escape to (or maybe from) the rocky shores of Maine.
This was such a great story. I loved the focus on female friendships and the way we have to follow Avery as she unravels her own unreliable memories of not just the last year, but the hidden moments in the last decade of her life as it became intertwined with this wealthy family. Megan Miranda’s writing is truly divine and the pace of her story telling was perfect for me. I found myself speeding through this read, needing to know more, but slowing down to catch up with the plot she was throwing at me. So many little details were intertwined and finally fit together in a deliciously terrible puzzle in the last pages of this thriller. Can’t recommend it enough.
This was such a great story. I loved the focus on female friendships and the way we have to follow Avery as she unravels her own unreliable memories of not just the last year, but the hidden moments in the last decade of her life as it became intertwined with this wealthy family. Megan Miranda’s writing is truly divine and the pace of her story telling was perfect for me. I found myself speeding through this read, needing to know more, but slowing down to catch up with the plot she was throwing at me. So many little details were intertwined and finally fit together in a deliciously terrible puzzle in the last pages of this thriller. Can’t recommend it enough.