I really like Miranda’s writing, but I am not a big fan of this book. As the narrator herself says, the main character is defined mostly by the people around her. While I know about what she thinks of others, I really don’t know anything much about her. Another drawback to the book for me was the pacing. The first half of the book is really slow and even when it picks up about two-thirds of the way in, it’s still slow. Finally, the big reveal at the end seemed anticlimactic. I don’t regret reading this because Miranda is a good writer, but I would not recommend this book.

Megan Miranda delivers a very slow burn mystery in her upcoming "Such A Quiet Place". This is not the novel I've come to expect from Megan Miranda (of the fast paced "All the Missing Girls" and "The Last House Guest" fame).

In this new novel, Miranda drops you in to the middle of a story, Ruby Fletcher is returning to her neighborhood after 14 months in prison convicted of murdering her next door neighbors The Truetts, when suddenly the conviction is overthrown and she is released, where she returns to the home she was staying in with her roommate Harper, who the novel's POV is told from.

Megan introduces us leisurely to a whole cast of characters of everyone in the neighborhood, where we get to know them and there motivations and desires in order to find out just what really happened to The Truetts. Did Ruby do it? And if not, who among them did? This is a true "whodunnit" and Megan Miranda's incredible character development and writing takes center stage here, I truly loved the atmospheric feel of the novel, I really felt like I was living in Hollow's Edge with Harper and the gang. I actually liked the slow-pace, it's just not what I expect from Megan, so it took some getting used to.

And that familiar twist that shocks the hell out of you that we've come to expect from Megan Miranda comes at about the half-way point and turns this slow burn on it's head, and then it got incredibly good. I didn't want to put it down after that. I think the book really could have used some trimming in the first half, but Megan always shocks me with her endings and I can't wait to discuss this one with fellow book lovers.

This book truly makes you question your neighbors and wonder how well do you really know the people you know, including the ones living in your own house with you...

4.5 stars rounded up!

This book was a "light" thriller. It was a quick read  I liked the storyline but hoped  there was a bigger plot twist at the end. It was well-written and it definitely kept me reading.  This is a great vacation/beach read. 
Special thanks to Netgalley and Simon&Schuster for sharing this one of the most anticipated thriller books’ digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

I keep waiting for a Megan Miranda novel to wow me and this definitely isn’t the one. This story dragged and dragged for me. I can appreciate a slow burn but I didn’t even find myself excited to find out what happened. As a protagonist, Harper is quite boring and unlikable, there’s nothing that made me feel any way at all about her. None of the characters really stuck out as well developed, they all could’ve been interchangeable as far as I could tell.

I know I’ll end up reading her next novel, but I sure hope it’s better than this one. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Okay, I'll say it — this is officially my favorite of Megan Miranda's books. As with her previous thrillers, Such a Quiet Place is intriguing from the first page, and the pace never slows down. Even though there's a fair amount of characters, she does a great job of making it easy to distinguish them and their personalities.

My favorite part of this book was how she managed to hold out the tension for more than half of it. Seriously, after I hit the 30% mark, I couldn't pull myself away. The only thing I'd change is that the very end dragged just a touch for me. I would have loved a jaw-dropping finally chapter, and the last small reveal fell a bit flat for me.

I love Megan Miranda books and once again she did not disappoint. I was hooked out this story from the first page to last. I loved the darkness of it and all the twist and turns.

Intriguing! I could not put this one down. Everyone was a suspect at one time. Love the character development. Is it good to live in a small close knit neighborhood where everyone knows all your secrets...or so they think. An ending I didn’t see coming.

Great book by Megan Miranda!

The thriller begins with Ruby Fletcher returning to her old neighborhood and roommate Harper. Ruby had been away the last 14 months accused of the murder of her next door neighbors. As the days unfold and a series of strange events rock the neighborhood, everyone’s secrets are threatened to be exposed. Learn just how far everyone will go to protect themselves in this great read !!

Thank You Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for sharing this book with me early in exchange for my honest opinion !

Very well developed characters and an extremely engaging story. Well thought out and very suspenseful story line that keeps the reader guessing until the final twist! This is the book to read this year! Highly recommended!

I’ve come to expect good things from Megan Miranda. I’m yet to read her first, but the rest have been consistently good, way above average in the ever popular genre that’s heavily populated with average. And yet this one kind of stretched those parameters. Which is to say it was still good, very readable, lots of fun and appropriately twisted in all the right places, but overall somehow…less so. Basically, too thin of a plot gets hung up precisely on the tenterhooks of excellent writing and a savvy sociopsychological message.
This is a neighborhood thriller or, to be more precise, a locked neighborhood thriller. A small water adjacent enclave populated with people working in a local university, not just neighbors but also coworkers and friends, people tightly enmeshed in each other’s lives, some might say unnaturally so. Everyone knowing each other’s business, watching, judging, stowing away secrets. But quietly. You know that thing Sartre said about other people….
Well, anyway, welcome to the neighborhood. Idyllic, well maintained, well surveilled. It’s such a quiet place. With such nice people in it.
Until a couple of them turns up dead in their own bed under mysterious circumstances and another one of the neighbors, Ruby, is arrested for it. Ruby somehow gets convicted despite very thin and purely circumstantial evidence and no motive and serves fourteen months before her conviction is overturned, upon which she returns right back to the neighborhood, right back to her rental share and right back to her alarmed and severely freaked out landlady/friend. The latter is our narrator, so you get her perspective. She’s essentially much too nice to ask Ruby to go or even so much as say no to Ruby, so the two of them play weirdly charged games with each other. None of the rest of the neighbors are happy about the situation, but some are considerably less so than others. The situation simmers, boils and then boils over, resulting in a tragedy. Which is, you know, not great for property values, after all how many dead bodies can one small place handle and all that.
So that’s basically the story. A bunch of thoroughly unpleasant people who think themselves to be the opposite do terrible things to each other for mostly all the wrong reasons. It’s the tragedy of errors, really. When you get to the end and Miranda hits you with that excellent twist, you just go…ah, tall fences, get taller fences, people. Proverbially or otherwise.
The thing is…I really love what she’s saying here in this book, it resonates on a profound misanthropic level. But it does take a long time to say it and with a thin plot and lack of likeable characters, it’s especially noticeable. The novel doesn’t drag, Miranda’s too much of a pro for that, in fact it reads very quickly, it’s just that it leaves you wanting more than just a morality tale about a certain class and type of people. But then again, if that’s all there is, it’s still plenty for a pretty entertaining read. And, as always, her plot twists are lovely and genuinely unguessable (at least not all the way), which is good, because I was becoming too much of an expert armchair detective and missed being surprised.
So all in all, good, not great, not author’s best, but a fun read all the same. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.

Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors and felt like family. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, and the residents are stuck and confronted daily by their trial testimonies that implicated one of their own. Ruby Fletcher. And now, Ruby’s back.

With her conviction overturned, Ruby waltzes right back to Hollow’s Edge, and into the home she once shared with Harper Nash. Harper and Ruby were close. Once.

Within days, suspicion spreads like a virus and its clear that not everyone told the truth about the night of the Truett’s murders. And when Harper begins receiving threatening notes, she realizes she has to uncover the truth before someone else becomes the killer’s next victim.

Ahhhh Megan Miranda does it again! I am a huge fan, and love all of her work. She is a twisty queen that gets straight to the point. Her writing style is usually short and direct which is nice. I love that everyone is a suspect and you aren’t quite sure what the hell is going on. Is Ruby guilty? Innocent? Sorta both? You don’t know until the very end. I enjoyed this, but would not say it’s my favorite of hers. Some parts were slow and Harper kind of bugged me with her goody two shoes vibe lol I thought the whole neighborhood tight knit community -keeping each others dirty secrets quiet was true to real life as well as there being two sides to people : the public and the private. Clever and well written.

Thank you to Netgalley for my advance copy in exchange for my honest review!

So, let me start by saying I just LOVE Megan Miranda. I love all of her books. They are always quick, amazing reads for me, simply because I can’t put them down. With all of that said...this is absolutely the best book she’s ever written. Throughout the entire book I was on the edge of my seat. There was a perfect balance of unlovable and untrustable characters. I spent the entire book trying to figure out who did it, and still couldn’t until the last few pages. Truly an incredible book.

3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️. This is the 4th book I’ve read by Megan Miranda and unfortunately this one was not a hit for me. Two of her books I absolutely loved but the other two I did not. I was so excited that both my friend and I were given advanced copies and we decided to buddy read it. Sadly my friend only made it through 2-3 chapters and quit. I was determined to keep going. It seemed so slow and boring in the beginning. As I kept reading, it was a consistent 3.5 stars throughout for me. I had high hopes that the ending would “wow me” and I would bump it to a 4 star but unfortunately it did not. It was actually the opposite. I hated the ending which is why I dropped it to 3 stars. I am disappointed but will not give up on this author because All The Missing Girls and The Girl From Widow Hills were both REALLY GOOD!

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This is the first book I have read from Megan Miranda but I will definitely be seeking more! Such a Quiet Place had me hooked from the get go and i finished this book in 24 hours! Often times I can see spot the ending half way through but not in this case! Was still guessing until the very end! Author does a great job of setting the scene and making you feel as if you live in the neighborhood and can trust no one! Everyone in this book has a secret and no one can be trusted! Miranda leads to reader to think they have solved it, and there is yet another turn! Thank you for the advance copy! I will definitely be recommending to friends!

“Turned out, we were all so close to criminal. All you needed was a good enough motive.”

This is by far my favorite Megan Miranda book to date! The synopsis caught my attention but within the first three chapters I was officially hooked.

The residents of Hallows Edge seem like the perfect neighbors on the outside, but they don’t actually know each other - they rarely actually speak to one another. They communicate through the message forum or when they run into each other but no one in this community is actually friends.

The one thing they all agree on is the fact that Ruby is guilty. She killed the Truetts and belongs in jail. So what are they going to do when Ruby is released from jail on a technicality and comes back to Hallows Edge? What is Harper going to do Ruby when walks back into her house and her life? Why did she come back when everyone thinks she’s a murderer?

This book kept me guessing the entire time. Even when I thought I figured it out I was still guessing. It made me think about what people would really do to keep up appearances and protect their own.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy. These thoughts are my own.

Ruby Fletcher was accused and convicted of murdering her neighbors, fourteen months later her conviction was overturned. Upon release, she returned to her idyllic neighborhood but the community is still wary of her. She came back with one goal in mind, find out what really happened that night. It becomes clear everyone in town has something to hide...

Wow wow wow! Another fantastic novel from Megan Miranda, in my opinion, Such a Quiet Place is her best novel yet folks!

This book hooked me from the start. I could not read it fast enough! This book had the perfect amount of suspense and twists, Megan knows how to feed you just enough information and keep you on the edge of your seat. Every time you think you know where it’s going, this book will surprise you. My jaw dropped by the end of this book! Be sure to pick this book up when it hits shelves on July 13th, it'll make the perfect beach read!

*Thank you so much to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for providing an eArc in exchange for my review*

I can't get enough of Megan Miranda! I eagerly await publication of her books and always give away a few as gifts for birthdays and holidays. Her stories are so well-crafted that even the craziest premise is completely believable. In SUCH A QUIET PLACE, Miranda takes us to the small enclave of Hollow's Edge, a college town neighborhood with its own set of unwritten rules. When a member of this group is sent to prison for murdering a neighbor, the fabric of the social structure is stretched, but not torn. When she is released from prison, however, and dares to return to Hollow's Edge, the social structure completely unravels and everyone's secrets threaten to surface. Just an excellent read.

Such a Quiet Place is a spellbinding, thought-provoking thriller that will have you looking in the mirror and questioning your own surroundings. A double murder stuns the peaceful neighborhood of Hollow’s Edge. Soon, the neighbor’s turn on Ruby, one of their own. Months later, the conviction is overturned and Ruby is back. But why? Author Megan Miranda has another absolutely winner here, as the suspension is ramped up with each chapter, and the dialogue and settings make you feel the tension amongst the once close-knit neighbors, as long held secrets are revealed, each either adding a piece to the puzzle, or scrambling it even more. This is a perfect book club read, as there are a lot of morality issues here, as we can all relate to the concept of being “neighborly”, and staying safe, but at what price? This one will stay with you for a while. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher through @NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Oh thank you netgally for sending me this advanced copy I love Megan Miranda and this book was no exception I finished it in a few hours wanting get all the details never knowing who's guilty

;Synopsis We had no warning that she’d come back.

Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then came the murder of Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year and a half later, Hollow’s Edge is simmering. The residents are trapped, unable to sell their homes, confronted daily by the empty Truett house, and suffocated by their trial testimonies that implicated one of their own. Ruby Fletcher. And now, Ruby’s back.

With her conviction overturned, Ruby waltzes right back to Hollow’s Edge, and into the home she once shared with Harper Nash. Harper, five years older, has always treated Ruby like a wayward younger sister. But now she’s terrified. What possible good could come of Ruby returning to the scene of the crime? And how can she possibly turn her away, when she knows Ruby has nowhere to go?

Within days, suspicion spreads like a virus across Hollow’s Edge. It’s increasingly clear that not everyone told the truth about the night of the Truett’s murders. And when Harper begins receiving threatening notes, she realizes she has to uncover the truth before someone else becomes the killer’s next victim.:

Definitely my favorite Megan Miranda book!
This was an intense thriller with drama and mystery. The writing was perfect and the story pulled me in immediately.

Ruby comes back to her neighborhood after being accused of murder. She marches right back into Harpers life who was her roommate before the murder and trial. The neighborhood is suspicious of Ruby along with Harper who is set on finding out the truth.

I will definitely be recommending this book to everyone! A solid thriller and Megan’s best work yet.

Thanks to NetGalley and Edelweiss for my advanced ebook.