Oh my! Megan Miranda has done it again writing another twisty, turny book full of psychological suspense. I love how atmospheric this book was, pulling me into the pages from the very first paragraph. I also love how the author kept leading me on with those small bits of insight, having me think things might be this way, and then that way finally having me so unsure that I could only frantically flip through the pages until I found out that the character I was rooting for, was ok after all. (I'm not telling you who I was ultimately rooting for!)

This is definitely a five star book, and I highly recommend it!

For me personally, this book was a little slow moving. I will say the ending was a good one that I didn't see coming, so that did redeem it a bit.

I love this author, and this is.probably my favorite one by her so far. The sleepwalking aspect gave it such a creepy vibe. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out the twists, but this one was unexpected! Loved it!

I love when I can't guess every twist and turn of a book. I did not see the big twist at the end coming! The sleepwalking aspect was so creepy; I'm terrified of sleepwalking/walkers. It made for a different sort of unreliable narrator. I also enjoyed the combination of past and present mysteries

I enjoyed this engaging thriller. The Girl from Widow Hills kept me reading and guessing until the very end. The twists and turns throughout the book made the mystery all that more engaging. I kept changing my guess as to who the killer was until it was revealed. Megan Miranda does not disappoint with this new book!

Thanks to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley!

Wow! What a twist at the end! When I was about 45 minutes from the end of the book, I was becoming disappointed with the plot! However, the end really blew me away! I did not see that coming, at all! The author did a great job at making me feel trapped and watched. I felt uneasy which made me able to understand the protagonist even better!

I have read several books by Megan Miranda and this one did not disappoint! While the first third of the book was slower the rest was fast paced and kept me guessing. You know it's a good book when you stay up until 1am to finish when you have to be at work at 7! The whole plot of a possible sleepwalking murder and going back and forth with "whodunit" really kept me interested! Can't wait for your next book.

"Everybody want to be a part of the story. Sell your words, your friends, your soul."

She was the girl who survived. Arden Olivia (Liv) Maynor was only six years old when she went outside while sleepwalking and was found in a storm drain three days later. No one knows how she survived in the drain, how she held on for so long and with such a bad arm injury. She has no memory from that time. Arden's mother wrote a book about their ordeal and fame followed. Fame, that Arden - who now goes by Olivia, does not want.

Olivia (Liv) is happy with her new life. She has a home, a job, some friends and no one knows about her past. Then as the twentieth anniversary of the day she was saves grows closer, a man recognizes her. Making things worse is that she has begun sleepwalking again. Days later she hears a sound and goes outside and stumbles over a body, not any body - but the body someone she knew when she was a child.

I really enjoyed this one and the build to the conclusion. I had so many questions and not many answers for most of the book. I loved that I could not figure this book out. I had many suspects in mind but could not pin the murder on anyone. I also could relate to her not having any memory from the traumatic event which occurred from her childhood. The brain is a wondrous thing and it will block traumatic trauma through a process called dissociation. It is the brains way of protecting itself (you). I found this to be a nice touch in the book. I also had fun attempting to determine if Liv was a reliable character.

I found the pacing to be spot on and nothing felt rushed in this book. I appreciated how the author built the suspense and there is a feeling of tension through the last half of the book. This book can be put in the I-didn't-see-that-coming category for me. I loved how she tied things up and shocked me in the process.

Captivating, chilling, and shocking!

First I want to say I wish I could give this a 3.5 because that feels more appropriate than a 3, but it just wasn’t a 4 for me.


90% of the this one had me totally hooked and I couldn’t wait to get to the end. Then I got to the end and was not a fan of how it all came together.

I do have other books by this author on my TBR shelves and this was a good intro book to her style and I’m looking forward to

WOW. Megan Miranda never ceases to amaze me with her characters and plots. There's always this growing sense of dread, and a feeling that you can never quite trust the narrator, even though you want to. The girl from Widow Hills, Olivia Meyer, left behind her former name and past, trying to build a new life for herself after the craze of media attention centered around her being found trapped in the town's underwater pipe system after a flood when she was six. Liv is very self-reflective, although she doesn't remember anything that happened to her during the time she was lost, but has PTSD related to dark and enclosed spaces. I loved the thread running through this book about the effects of media attention on the focused target's life, a denouncement of the lack of privacy and never knowing who to trust, as many people would give up any information for a little snippet of fame, or to protect their own reputations. Liv is paranoid, and she ends up questioning everyone she knows, even herself, but it is warranted. I raced toward the end of this book, desperate to know the truth. If you're looking for your next summer thriller, this is it!

This was my first Megan Miranda book, and I am glad I finally read her work. This story is compelling and engaging, and I thoroughly enjoyed the reading experience.

The main character, Olivia, has changed her name and left her home town in order to escape the attention around a traumatic event in her past. She is the girl from Widow Hills, the girl who got washed away in a flash flood after a sleepwalking incident and got trapped in a storm drain for three days. She is a considered a miracle. Now, as an adult, her past catches up to her, and she begins sleepwalking again. She wakes up standing over a dead body, and that's where the mystery begins. Did she kill the man dead in her yard? Did someone else kill him and try to frame her? Those are the questions the reader searches to answer as the story progresses.

I found the pacing of this book satisfactory. I like a slow paced mystery that provides just enough kernels of evidence to keep me guessing and wanting to know more. This book does that. There are enough distracting characters and possible explanations to keep the mystery interesting. I did guess the big twist prior to its reveal, but I didn't find that upsetting. I was proud of myself for figuring it out.

The characters are decent. I like Olivia, even though she makes some poor choices. Some of the minor characters could have used more development, but overall I am happy with the way they are portrayed.

This mystery/thriller delivers. I am interested now in reading more books by this author.

Thank you to Netgalley for a free copy of this to read and review. I read the authors last book The Last House Guest and loved it so I wanted to give this a try. It was an interesting story it lacked some romance that I love in my books. Overall this was a three star read for me.

The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda is a thriller that I wanted to love. The chapters alternate between present time and news articles from the past. I enjoyed this format, as it helped piece together Olivia/Arden's background. I found the book a bit repetitive and slow-moving. I didn't anticipate the ending, which is refreshing in a story like this, but I also didn't care about any of the characters or the plot as it built toward that final twist.

I really enjoyed this book, it was a slow burn with a twist at the end I couldn't have predicted and made things even crazier! I liked that Miranda moved the story along in the present while throwing in small items from the past event; 911 transcripts, news coverage etc. Those little pieces broke up the present time while you learned what happened to Arden as a child. It was interesting to see characters in different lights, good and maybe they have something to hide, it built an air of suspicion around everyone; including Olivia! I honestly did not see the true mastermind coming. This wasn't a game time decision either, they were methodical and devious and worked hard at what they'd done. There were times the story seemed to be slow and could have moved along a little faster but overall, it wasn't something that changed my feelings towards the book. If you're a fan of Megan Miranda, you'll want to pick this up!

What I came away with the most, from this book, was how the writing allowed me to feel so very uneasy, trapped, watched, in the same way the way the main character felt those things. Arden had been a six year old when she had sleepwalked one night, gotten caught in a rushing torrent during a rainstorm, and was found three days later, clinging to a grate in a sewer system. Only a miracle would have allowed this little girl to go through all of that and still be alive. The media attention was constant but after years of being the little miracle girl, a lot of the attention became mean spirited and rude, due to all the money that was donated to Arden and her mother. Arden's mother wrote a book about the event and Arden can't really remember anything of it other than what her mother wrote, as if she might not have really been there those three days, at all. 

When she was sixteen, Arden changed her name to Olivia, changed schools and ran from the unwanted attention. Now, twenty years after the three day ordeal, Olivia works in a hospital and has her safe, anonymous life, until she is confronted one morning, by the man who had found her clinging to the grate in the sewer. She rebuffs his attempts to talk to her, only to sleepwalk again at night, waking up with the man dead at her feet and blood on her hands. Everyone seems to be suspect, if not for the murder but for wanting something from Olivia, the former little girl who was found in the storm sewer. The police are involved because of the dead man and Olivia doesn't even know for sure that she didn't kill him. I enjoyed the sense of constant unease and worry as Olivia attempts to unravel her past, that has run headlong into her present. 

Thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for this ARC.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to review this book. This is my second Megan Miranda book, and it just didn't do it for me. I had a very hard time getting into the story and believing the whole thing. This book just did not work for me. It was slow and I almost gave up reading it entirely. I like Miranda and I liked her book All The Missing Girls ... because she knows how to write and is good author, I'll round up my rating to 3 stars. I will not give up on her books.

This book was one that when I read the description I automatically wanted it. This book did not disappoint. This was the first book my Megan Miranda that I've read, and it was great. At the beginning of this book I thought i knew where it was going, I thought I knew for sure who was behind all of the crazy things that happened, but boy was I wrong! This book is a must read!

Almost twenty years ago, six year old Arden Maynor went missing while sleepwalking during a rainstorm. The entire community of Widow Hills searched for her. It was a miracle when she was found days later in a storm drain. The story became a media sensation. (This is reminiscent of when “Baby Jessica” McClure was rescued from a well in 1987.) A book deal for her mother and more followed. But this was all too much for Arden so once she was old enough, she moved, changed her name to Olivia Meyer and started a new life. As the 20th anniversary of her rescue approaches, Olivia expects it will get lots of media coverage and fears that her identify will be uncovered. Once a man from Widow Hills appears in her new town looking for her, she knows there is trouble ahead. When he is found dead outside her home, trouble has found her.

The Girl from Widow Hills is a well-done, quick moving psychological thriller with enough twists and “I didn’t see that one coming” turns to satisfy. The characters are all interesting and the reader is not sure through most of the book if Arden/Olivia is a reliable narrator and someone to root for or someone to doubt.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster and Megan Miranda for an advance copy of this enjoyable page-turner which comes out on June 23, 2020.

Review to be posted at MicheleReader.com closer to publication.

I really enjoyed this! The Girl From Widow Hills is well thought out, with believable plot lines and a great ending!
Arden Maynor was famous as a child for being missing, but too much scrutiny caused her to change her name and start a new life.
While she is still sleepwalking, a leftover reminder of her childhood, life is going well. Now she calls herself Olivia. While sleepwalking one night, she stumbles onto and into a dead body. Her past seems to have caught up to her, but why?

Fans of Megan Miranda's exciting psychological thrillers will lose themselves in her newest sensation, "The Girl from Widow Hills." This story is about Arden Maynor who suffered a traumatic event as a young child when she was swept away in a torrential rainstorm while sleepwalking. Three days later, she was found in a storm drain by a passing stranger. What followed was years of media sensation heightened by the publication of her mother's novel chronicling her miraculous rescue.

Worn down by years of incessant Interviews and relentless fans, Arden changes her name to Olivia and moves to a quiet town in North Carolina to start a new life. Unfortunately, Olivia continues to suffer from night terrors attributed to her accident and bouts of sleepwalking. One night during a sleepwalking episode, Olivia stumbles over a dead body on the periphery of her property. The dead body is eventually identified as Sean Coleman, the man who rescued her from the storm drain.

Olivia finds herself amid a maelstrom of anxiety and terror with a killer on the loose. She had left Widow Hills to live a life of anonymity and the deceased man ties her to the past and brings unwanted police and media attention. Her memory is fragmented and she is worn down by lack of sleep. She also questions the motives of her next door neighbor, boss and friend from work. As her career and friendships start to falter, Olivia is determined to find answers and get her life back.

Megan Miranda delivers another crackling thriller! Many thanks to Simon and Schuster, NetGalley and Megan Miranda for a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.