4.5 stars! Suspense-driven page turner where the twists kept coming fast and furious. I couldn’t help google Baby Jessica and her rescue from the well 30+ years ago - I remember watching the evening news with my parents hoping and praying with the rest of the country that she would be saved and safe. I changed my suspicions for how the book would end so many times and the fear every time she was alone with someone kept me on the edge of my seat. Characters were well developed though maybe there were a few unanswered questions at the end with how things worked out in a couple of the relationships. This was my first Megan Miranda book - will look forward to reading her others.

Many thanks to the NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for the ARC! This book will be on shelves 6/23/20. Highly recommend!!!

Wow 😯 I think I held my breath the last quarter of this book. It is a must read in the thriller genre.
I will not hesitate to read any book this author releases. Go read this book!!!!!!

During a violent storm 6 yr old Arden Maynor is swept away in the flood. She goes missing for 3 days and is later found in a storm grate. Fast forward 20 years later Arden has a new identity in an attempt to get away from her past and the media attention. She has built another life for herself. Except she still sleepwalks and one evening wakes up next to a body on her lawn and the past Arden has tried so hard to leave behind has finaly caught up with her.It took a while for me to get hooked by the story but once I was, I could not wait to see where it lead. Thanks netgalley and publisher for the ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for my e-ARC in exchange for my honest review. This was a good thriller with lots of twists and turns. Who do you trust?

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I enjoyed this book a lot. It's the first book by this author I've read and am excited to read more. The story was great and I loved the twists. I couldn't believe the ending but I was definitely shocked. Great book.

Thank you Netgalley, the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book. Megan Miranda did a great job with the twists and turns in this one. At the end everything came together so quickly it was almost hard to follow but it ends with all of your questions answered. I would have liked to see some other points of view.

I like this book by Megan Miranda. It was definitely different from other books and I am glad I go the opportunity to read it. I would recommend it to friends!

All The Missing Girls is my favorite book by Megan Miranda, so The Girl from Widow Hills had some high expectations to live up to.

The story starts with 6 year old Arden Maynor being swept away during a terrible storm while sleepwalking and she went missing for 3 days. Luckily, she was found alive. The story moves from what happened in the past with news articles and interviews, to the present, which is 20 years afterward. She is now known as Olivia Meyer, wanting to change her identity to escape the past. However, the past is not always as it seems and the truth will find you.

Honestly, this book was a 5 star read for me up until the end. I love the past and present timelines because it really gives you the entire story. It was very well written. When the ending happens and you find out who the ‘bad guy’ is, it just made me want to throw my kindle. I can’t say much more without spoiling it. I just didn’t find it believable.

Thank you to NetGalley, Simon Schuster and Megan Miranda for an early reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Simon & Shuester, Netgalley, and Megan Miranda for the ARC of The Girl from Widow Hills.

Olivia Meyer previously knows as Arden Maynor, or the Girl from Widow Hills that was 6 years old when she was sleepwalking and was swept up in flash flood.

20 years later all Olivia wants to do is live a normal life and pretend that the past never happened. But the past has a funny way of showing up when you least expect it.

I gave this 4 stars, when it probably should have been a 3, maybe a 3.5. I LOVE Megan Miranda's books and I was SO excited to get the ARC for this one. It just didn't live up to my expectations, I thought the story was great just the mystery wasn't where I expected it to be.

The last few just haven't lived up to All the Missing Girls for me and I had high hopes for this one.

Thank you to S&S and NetGalley for this ARC bc it's renewed my faith in the genre. Well paced, good narration, likeabke lead and I was legitimately surprised at the twist and the ending. I didn't see it coming at all! This is what psychological thrillers should be - I am definitely going to read her previous books. This is a must read for fans of Tarryn Fisher and Ruth Ware.

This book was so good! The characters were so well rounded, you felt like you actually knew them! The plot was so good you didn't want the book to end!

Rating: 3.5 stars

I wish I’d like this book more than I did. It had been off to such a great start, I had high expectations. After reading Lori’s review where she shed insight on Jessica McClure, “everybody’s baby”, that was stuck in a well for three days and had a whole nation rooting for her rescue, it definitely brings a chilling reality to this whole ordeal.

This was almost a great book. This author definitely has a knack for tension, throughout the story you just know, you FEEL, something is wrong about Olivia/Arden’s past (don’t worry I won’t spoil anything), but you can never tell what. I absolutely loved that aspect of the book.

But other than that, this book just lacked that extra OOMPH that makes a great story. The character’s personalities just lacked depth and that connection with the reader. The pacing, in thriller book style, took things very slow until the very end. The setting was literally just a regular, plain old town.

There were definitely some bright lights: the backstory of sleepwalking, the twist at the end. But just not enough for this book to really stick to me to different. I am interested in reading more of this author, though!

I loved it!
So this thriller was amazing! I loved the eerie feeling about everything and the twist was such a shocker I couldn't believe it! Definitely kept me on my toes until the end!
I really enjoyed the switching between the story and like the reports and 911 calls.
So, the novel tells a story about a little girl named Arden. Arden was reported missing by her mother after she found her bed empty saying she left the house sleep walking. This event turned out the whole neighborhood in search, she was missing for 3 days before a neighbor Sean Coleman saved her.
Fast forward 20 years Arden has changed her name to Olivia and she is living a successful life. She has a great job, a house and a great neighbor Rick who looks after her. Then, one night all of that changed. When she stumbled upon Sean Coleman dead outside her home.
This calls for a media frenzy and her past comes back to haunt her and she meets Sean Colemans son. Now shes faced with what was Sean Coleman doing outside her home, who can she trust, and why she was sleep walking.
You will not be disappointed! Pick yourself up a drink and sit down because this is one book you wont want to miss!

This had almost every thriller trope I could think of - twists and turns, red herrings, and an unreliable narrator. If you're picky about thrillers, this one might not satisfy you. To add to the stereotypical thriller, I found the characters to be very flat - I couldn't connect enough to care to either love or hate them, I was very indifferent.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Girl from Widow Hills is the story of a woman who is trying to forget her past so that she can live a normal life. Olivia cannot remember exactly what happened when she was six years old. All she knows is what she was told: she was sleepwalking and got swept away in a storm, only to be found three days later. Her mother wrote a book about the ordeal and she became known as “The girl from Widow Hills”. As the twentieth anniversary approaches she starts to sleepwalk again. One night she wakes up outside standing over a body. Did she kill him and not realize it? Or is someone from her past stalking her? Megan Miranda does a good job of hiding the truth from the reader until the very end. I enjoyed her previous books and look forward to her next one.

I loved this book description and that cover!!!

I wanted to like this book... I just can't finish. Unfortunately it wasn't/isnt my cup of tea.

Thank you to NetGalley for letting me get an early copy to try to read/review tho.

I know there's been a trend toward titles with "The Girl" prominently featured, but this cover was so striking, I had to add it to my TBR.

Up front: I loved this book. Prepare for a lot of positivity.

Olivia wanted nothing more than to shed her identity as The Girl from Widow Hills, the one who survived an unfortunate accident, being swept into the sewers and surviving three days before she was rescued. She changes her name, starts over, and everything is manageable until she receives a box of belongings from her deceased mother. Sleepwalking is something she hasn't done since the incident, but Olivia finds herself not only taking up her old habits, but tangled into the middle of a murder investigation when she wakes up outside standing over the body of a dead man.

Told in the present tense with flashbacks to transcripts of interviews, book excerpts, and 911 calls, Miranda's writing style is effortless. I loved the quick blips into the past, because while they were short, they were wrought with subtle clues and insight into the characters. Building on the tense relationship Olivia--born Arden--had with her mother, we see how a miraculous feat can affect the lives of everyone involved for better and for worse. Miranda highlights the trajectory of someone thrust into the spotlight by improbable circumstances. Olivia didn't ask to be swept into the sewers, nor did she ask for the celebrity that came with her rescue. The money her family received, the interviews and specials that came with anniversaries of the date, she had her life, but she also discovered that people can be cruel, calling her a liar--a perpetrator of a hoax--and demanding for truth she can't give. I appreciated this underbelly of fame take. Even feel-good community stories are subject to public scrutiny in our world of social media anonymity, and while you expect Olivia to have a happily ever after, the once-in-a-lifetime event turns out to be anything but. It's like when people win the lottery and blow the winnings in six months., but the stakes are much higher.

In terms of twists and unexpected turns, The Girl from Widow Hills delivers. I found myself trying to put the pieces together but also enjoying being in the dark about who was responsible for the murder. This was my first read as we enter our first week of Covid school closings here in Upstate NY, and I finished this in a single sitting. I could put it down, but I didn't want to.

Big thanks to Simon and Schuster and NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for honest review consideration. The Girl from Widow Hills is a must-read for the 2020 season. Look for it in June, you won't be disappointed.

Megan Miranda did it again. Her writing is intriguing, addicting and satisfying. She is one of my must read authors and this book gives me more reason to keep supporting her.

Are we really the authors of our own stories?

Olivia Meyer has gone to great lengths to separate herself from the aftermath of her childhood trauma, when she went missing after a sleepwalking incident and was found three days later in a storm drain. The story of a miraculous rescue has turned sour as Olivia grows up and tries to develop her own identity, rather than being the product of national media attention, speculation, her mother, and the strangers who feel entitled to her life. But she can't run for long—especially when the sleepwalking starts again, and Olivia wakes to find a dead man in her yard. A man with a chilling connection to her past.

This was a really fun read. The Girl from Widow Hills is one of those exciting books where you have to slow down your eager pace so you don't miss any details. The twists don't unfold until the very end, leaving you theorizing about every detail that has been uncovered up to that point. Is Olivia a reliable narrator? Can any of the other characters be trusted? What is the truth, and whose truth is it? You're going to question everyone and everything!

The Girl from Widow Hills does require you to suspend your disbelief, which deducts points from my review because it is distracting. I questioned whether Olivia's rescue would really garner THAT much attention at the time that it happened, much less 20 years later after she's so deliberately extracted herself from the limelight. I found her personality somewhat blank, and the other characters a bit too hyperfocused on her even before the drama unfolds. Some scenes and characters that were clearly meant as red herrings or inciting factors felt like frayed edges, especially when they were never brought up again or were reexamined in brief passing. Olivia's internal dialogue also gets a bit repetitive as she tries to make sense of everything happening around her.

Overall, I'd give The Girl from Widow Hills 3.5 stars. I had a great time reading it and looked forward to whenever I had time to pick it up. The chapters are the perfect length to pull you in without keeping you for too long, so it's a great read for someone who wants to get out of their thoughts for a few minutes but doesn't have endless time to read. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a thriller with a unique concept!

Thank you to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster, and Megan Miranda for the opportunity to read the ARC of The Girl from Widow Hills.

The Girl from Widow Hills is an unputdownable, engaging psychological thriller with plenty of twists and an ending no one will expect.

Olivia is "the girl from Widow Hills," although she changed her name. Everyone knows the story. Arden Maynor was a child who while sleepwalking was swept away by a massive rainstorm. After days missing, she was found clinging to a storm drain. She was a miracle. Her mother wrote a book. The public loved to hear about the story. Arden was famous. And every year, on the anniversary, interest is renewed. Eventually Arden got sick of it and became Olivia living hundreds of miles away. The twentieth anniversary is approaching and soon Olivia feels like she is being watched. Who found her? Olivia begins sleepwalking again and one night awakens in her yard with a dead body in front of her. It's the body of a man Arden knew. Olivia becomes the prime suspect and is thrown back into the spotlight. Will Olivia remember what happened? As she tries to figure it out, she also might learn what really happened to her as a child.

What a page turner!! This is one unpredictable, outstanding story! Readers who enjoy strong psychological thrillers will want to check this one out. Be sure to check out The Girl from Widow Hills today!