This was a fantastic summer thriller. I didn’t see the ending coming. It had great pacing, enough characterization to keep me invested, and it kept me guessing the whole way. I’d definitely recommend this to my mystery-fan friends.

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Thank you to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster for a digital arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Arden is a survivor. She was found after missing for days, after being swept away from a flood while she was sleepwalking.

Skip ahead to present day. Arden has changed her name to Olivia. She gets a phone call informing her, her mother has died. Then the sleepwalking starts happening again.

The ending of this story actually surprised me! I felt a little bored throughout the book but I'm glad I pushed through and made it to the end for that twist!

This book was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The prologue of this book drew me in and this kept my interest throughout. Olivia thought she outgrew sleepwalking as a child, but 20 years later, her neighbor finds her outside in the middle of the night. The next night, she wakes up next to a body. Olivia has changed 20 much in the last 20 years, to protect herself - from the media, from the public. But her past is catching up to her. Olivia feels like she is being watched, she is suspicious of everyone. I liked all the characters, I could connect with them. I felt all questions were answered and I wasn't left thinking, "what happened with this?". I would definitely recommend this book.

This is the kind of story I love to read during the summer time. It’s one where you can easily slip into the narrative and just enjoy the ride. The opening piqued my interest right off the bat and it kept me engaged until the end. There are so many small twists and turns sprinkled throughout the story that it kept things interesting. I loved how the mystery started off small and then blossomed into something so much bigger. It made me concerned and suspicious of so many characters, which I really enjoyed. The only thing about the book I wasn’t crazy about was the ending. It gave me a few side eye moments and I still have some lingering questions.

Overall, this was a great multi-layered mystery with some suspense sprinkled in. It’s a great choice if you’re in the mood to put your detective hat on and escape into the complicated world of The Girl From Widow Hills.

Content Warning: Overdose; Death; Murder

Thank you to Simon & Schuster for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

NetGalley ARC | Another one of my most anticipated June 2020 book releases, The Girl From Widow Hills is SO well-written. You will find a plethora of right-in-front-of-your-face clues but still be surprised in the end.

The perfect summer suspense novel, if you need a murder mystery that will engulf you paired with dysfunctional families, you'll find a scary AF haven here. I also appreciated the North Carolina setting and suspicious, creepy characters.

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Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with a free advanced copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Another amazing story by Megan Miranda!!! I’ve always wondered how ordinary folks (ie: not celebrities) handle being thrust into the limelight when tragedy occurs. Some may thrive, others may shrink away from the attention. Olivia is in the latter category but can’t seem to run from the past forever. A fast-paced and entertaining story!

20-years ago, 6-year old Arden went missing in her small town of Widow Hills and instantly became a sensation that lived on for many years following her traumatic 3-day disappearance. As a kid, Arden suffered from extreme sleep walking, which played a part in her disappearance during a massive storm. When she was 18, Arden needed to have a fresh start, reinvent herself, so she changed her name to Olivia.

Now Olivia lives in North Carolina out in the middle of nowhere and works at a hospital in administration. But out of the blue, Olivia’s sleep walking incidents return, even though they’d been gone for 2 decades. And one night she wakes up outside her home, standing over a dead body, wondering what she could’ve done this time.

Is this incident just a random event, or is Olivia’s past finally catching up with her?

The Girl from Widow Hills is Megan Miranda’s latest adult mystery. I’ve enjoyed all of Megan’s adult titles, especially her first and her latest, so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one. The first half of the story was extremely slow and I had a hard time paying attention to it. I found the media, interview, etc. excerpts from the past woven between chapters was repetitive and unnecessary. The book did start to pick up toward the end but it took a very unrealistic turn. 3/5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster and Megan Miranda for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I am not sure how I feel about this book. I read it. I liked it. It left me wanting more closure at the end. Poor Arden/Olivia suffered a trauma when she was 6 years old. It was so traumatic that she blocked the memory. She has a frozen shoulder that keeps reminding her of that time. Her childhood after the trauma was lightly addressed and you know that she did not have a great relationship with her mom. She started a new life for herself under the name Olivia and works in a hospital in administration. She has friends but not real deep relationships with her friends. She has an elderly neighbor who is there for her if she needs anything from him. Bizarre things start to happen to Arden/Olivia that all stem back to the trauma during her childhood. The man who saved her when she was 6 ends up dead in her yard. She starts to think that maybe what happened to her didn't really happen the way she has been told. But she ignores the thoughts that keep popping into her head. It is a book with lots of twists and turns with an ending that is surprising. If you like books that keep you guessing this is the one for you. I give it 3 1/2 stars

Thanks to @Simon & Schuster and #NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review. The Girl from Widow Hills is scheduled for release on June 23, 2020.

This was a really good novel from Megan Miranda! I've read her other ones and this was just as well written. This story is about a girl who was swept away during a bad storm when she was six years old after to have believed to have been sleepwalking. Several days later, she was found clinging to a drain cover, injured but miraculously alive and became the talk of the town. Twenty six years later, she has changed her name to Olivia, and moved away. Then something happens again and Olivia now is faced with a series of terrible events but also help lead her to learn her truth of what really happened to her. Well written and a story line that really gripes you! Enjoyed this book a lot!

* Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this advanced copy for my honest opinion and review!

I have voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this title given to me through NetGalley. This book was just absolutely wonderful. It was just so easy to get lost in and I just couldn’t put it down. I just lost myself within this amazing story. I most definitely will read more by this author.

Megan Miranda is well-known for her thrillers, especially ALL THE MISSING GIRLS. Her titles have been on my TBR for some time, but this is the first one I’ve read.

The writing was good. The author excels at establish a strong, well-developed lead character; weaving visceral, detailed scenes; and stringing beautifully-written sentences together, perfect word by perfect word.

Where this story tanked for me was its pacing. Very little actually happened in the novel, and the climax was, well, anticlimactic. The red herring perpetrators—two of them, at least—fell flat for me, as they were two-dimensional and somewhat unbelievable.

I would definitely read something else from this author, and I appreciate the opportunity to read this title early.

Olivia has started a new life in North Carolina, working in hospital administration and even changing her name. She wants to do anything possible to distance herself from her past, when she became a national sensation after she was sleepwalking at six years old and got stuck in a storm drain before being rescued after three days. However, her past has come back to haunt her. Her mother has died and she starts sleepwalking again… Only to trip over a dead body in her front lawn, the body of someone from her past. And of course after that, her secrets can’t stay hidden for long. This novel was very suspenseful and left you guessing who could be trusted until the last minute, with several solid twists along the way.

I’ve been a Megan Miranda fan since I’ve first read All the Missing Girls, and I’ve since read most of her work, including her YA fiction.

The Girl from Widow Hills tells the story of Olivia Meyer, who’s working to escape her past as Arden Maynor, the six year old who was sleep walking, swept into storm drains by the current of floodwaters, and found in the town’s drain system three days later. The 20th anniversary of her rescue is approaching, but she’s tired of the way the story has shaped her. She thinks she’s successfully gotten out, working as a hospital administrator in a different state, until her sleepwalking behavior resurfaces and she finds a dead body in the front yard when she wakes up from an episode.

In true Miranda fashion, the markers of time lee you invested in the story. She pays attention to the detail, and you’re left amazed that so much has happened in a short amount of time. She also creates a narrator that you never know if you can trust. Is she a person of interest in the case or is she a victim once again? Miranda will have you looking back and forth, like you are watching a vicious volley in a murderous tennis match.

As the truth starts to unfold, you’ll notice the way Miranda uses serial to prove we’ve know the story all along. Like Olivia, we just didn’t know what to look at.

I love the way these types of stories drop you in, make you feel so realistically like you are the main character.

I’m so glad to have received this e-arc from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Megan Miranda has once again written a wonderful mystery. I have read all her books and she consistently writes novels that I cannot put down.

Olivia Meyer is a hospital administrator, but twenty years ago she was a girl named Arden Maynor. Arden was six years old when she was sleepwalking and was swept away into the drain pipes of her hometown of Widow Hills, KY. She was rescued three days later. Needless to say, this event traumatized Arden, and she was unable to remember most of it.

Olivia, now an adult, is living in Central Vallwy, N.C. She seems to be doing fine until she once again sleepwalks outside her home and finds a dead body.
Liv is determined to investigate the crime. At this point, the novel gains momentum and a second murder occurs. There are a number of suspects to keep us guessing and also a stalker, you won't be able to read fast enough to get to the end.

I highly recommend this book and all of Megan Miranda's other novels. You will not be disappointed. Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

Likeable main character. I enjoyed reading this book but I did find it a little bit predictable. Easy read.

First off I’d like to thank Netgalley for a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book was kind of a disappointment for me. I felt like nothing really interesting happened. The last 2 chapters had a nice twist but that’s just about it. For the concept, story line and characters this story could have been told in 1/2 the time. I felt like it drug out entirely too long. I actually was starting to get sick of hearing about her sleep walking incident that happened 20 years ago. There was so much build up for such an anticlimactic ending. This story could have been told in 10 chapters and would have been pretty good. All in all I’ve honestly read better psychological thrillers. It was an overall okay read for me.

Ahhhhh I’m still trembling this book was so spooky at the end!! 😬 so many twists and turns throughout, many that I did not see coming.

The first 1/2 of this book was a little slow. I’m not sure exactly what, but it felt like it was missing something. It was both moving too quickly & not providing enough details, but also very slowly? Not sure if that makes sense but I can’t wrap my head around it 🤯 I will say that the second half made up for the rocky beginning. Like I said, I’m still spooked!

Not my most favorite thriller I’ve ever read, but I’d still recommend it!

Everyone remembers the girl from Widow Hills: the sleep walking six-year-old Arden Maynor, who disappeared from her home before dawn into a fierce storm, miraculously found alive three days after being swept into the city’s drainage system.
Her rescue captured the heart of the nation and Arden and her mother became famous, receiving fan letters, money, and a book deal. Every milestone anniversary has brought pain to Arden who stepped out of the spotlight as soon as she was able.

Now, she has given herself a fresh start as Olivia Meyer, leaving behind Widow Hills, Kentucky for a career in hospital administration in North Carolina. While her mom managed to waste away the money from her book deal, she was never able to touch the trust created for her as a child. Now, Olivia puts the money to good use when she purchases a secluded house outside of town.

Then, the news arrives: her mother has died, just before the 20th anniversary of her rescue.
Soon Olivia is sleepwalking again.
She wakes one night at the edge of her property, a dead man at her feet.
Olivia is stunned to learn the man identified has ties to her past and her carefully guarded past will once again be splashed across the headlines.

What a twisty mystery! The Girl from Widow Hills kept me turning the pages late into the night as I questioned everyone’s motives and how they could be connected to Olivia’s past! While parts of the plot were predictable, the twists were entertaining and not overly convoluted. It took a while for the pace to pick up but once it did, I was invested in learning the truth.

Thanks to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review. The Girl from Widow Hills is scheduled for release on June 23, 2020.

I love thrillers but this one fell a bit flat for me. The premise was odd and not very believable. The story was also a strange pace that I didn't enjoy. This is my first book by this author and I appreciated her writing. I think I would try her again, but this one just wasn't for me.
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2.5/5

Probably a 3.5 in actuality.

This thriller was sort of typical of what’s in right now - revisiting trauma from years ago. However, Liv’s trauma didn’t involve murder or a disappearance or a violent crime. She just went missing as a kid and was found three days later in a storm drain. So while she did have trauma, both memory loss from the incident and childhood trauma from being exploited and monetized, there was nothing from her past to go back and solve. She changed her name in college and started a new drama-free life. Until she wakes up at a crime scene beside someone linked to her past.

One thing about this book is that our main character had much less personality than her friends and side characters. I’m not always looking for great characterization in a thriller novel but she really paled in comparison to some of the other players in the book.

I thought the reveals in this book were genuinely exciting. It didn’t do anything super new, but I didn’t fully expect the ending until it was handed to me on a platter.

I really like Megan Miranda, I think she writes completely solid thrillers, and I’ll be waiting to pick up the next one.