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.

All right all right all right: this book’s straight, intriguing opening and slow burn whodunnit style high tension premise hooked me at the beginning.

Since I’ve read the Missing Girls and huge endorsement of Reese Witherspoon book club, I keen on enjoying Megan Miranda’s writing style and devouring her gripping page turners but even though the premise picked my interest, the execution of this slow burn thriller which quickly leads us to different suspects and confuses the hell of our minds didn’t work well with me!

The idea of bunch of academicians or people who worked for the college inhabiting at a quite neighborhood, fifty closely packed homes which are similarly designed, modestly priced, oriented toward the water named Hollow’s Edge like a big connected family till two of them had been killed and one of them got convicted from the murder excited me a lot. But I could not find anything about the characters perceptible to differentiate them from each other. Most of them were so dull, boring , ordinary. They were too boring, suffering from lack of intelligence or charisma to be killer. And at the end we got the real reason why those uninteresting people couldn’t be killers instead of irritating the hell of us.

At the beginning of the story we witness Ruby Fletcher’s return to the neighborhood, freshly out from prison, appearing at her old condo, saying hi to her roommate Harper Nash as if she wasn’t convicted for killing Truett family!

Now her conviction is overturned and her so called lovely neighbors testified against her to put her behind the bars! But surprise, surprise: Ruby is back! And she is so determined to avenge, making pay someone who tries to put blame on her!

Harper Nash, who was 30 years old, always seeing Ruby not only as her roommate but her younger sister scares of her but she doesn’t have guts to tell her move away. Slowly Ruby starts to occupy her place to trap Harper in her own place by wearing her clothes, driving her car, spending her money. The only thing irritates Harper was not Ruby’s suspicious attitudes. She starts getting threatening notes, feeling like someone is always watching her. Could Ruby tell her the truth from the beginning? Could someone in the neighborhood be involved in the killings of Truett family?

It seems like entire neighborhood imagined themselves as judges, juries and prosecutors of the community but giving the power to the wrongful hands may turn them into monsters or murderers.

Overall: the storyline was creative and the conclusion was semi satisfying but characterization was a little weak, storytelling is a little monotone and perpetrator is foreseeable!

It’s definitely not a bad book. I still enjoyed the slow burn whodunnit mystery idea at a close knit neighborhood and the author perfectly succeeded confusing our minds by pointing us different directions to doubt about the different characters’ suspicious motives!

So I’m giving three mysterious, revenge, I see you stars! It’s definitely moderate, easy read! I didn’t fall in love with the book but it’s still better than the most thriller books I’ve lately read.
I’m looking forward to read upcoming books of the author!

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.

Even though The Last House Guest and Girl from Widow Hills were pretty mehhh for me, I’ll continue looking out for Miranda’s books because they were entertaining enough, just not as twisty or surprising as my usual thriller favorites.

HOWEVER...Such A Quiet Place is by FAR the best work I’ve read from her. This is a small town/neighborhood whodunit style mystery, where you get to know all the residents, their drama, and their secrets - and I’m such a sucker for that trope.

Here we follow Harper, a resident of this neighborhood, whose former roommate Ruby was convicted of murdering 2 of their neighbors, and has just completed 14 months in prison. Ruby returns to Harper’s house, expecting to just move back in and everything would be normal again...but of course Harper has her reservations, and the entire neighborhood is still afraid of her, even though she maintains her innocence.

As Harper is adjusting to Ruby being back in her life (she has always believed Ruby was innocent), but now she starts having doubts, as Ruby starts behaving suspiciously and running off with her car for days at a time. Harper also starts receiving odd notes and photos, taken from someone who apparently knows things about the case.

This is a story of how a tight-knit neighborhood works to protect and defend one another, and the lengths they will go to keep each other’s dirty little secrets.

Such a Quiet Place is such a fitting title for this book. It's told through the perspective of Hollow's Edge's resident Harper Nash and her involvement with Ruby Fletcher (the accused, convicted and released). Hollow's Edge is a unique location in which there is a small community of homes and the residents are as close knit as they come. They don't speak in person often, but rather share their concerns and communications for a residential message board. Ruby was convicted of murdering her neighbors one evening and is later released based upon new evidence. Unknowing to Harper, Ruby returns to live with her and is on a path to clear her name. Everyone keeps their secrets quiet in this neighborhood, but nothing stays buried when someone comes looking. The author kept me on the edge of my seat, changing my speculations over and over with new revelations. The twists and turns continued until the very end and was one that I didn't see coming.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

I loved this one. Very fast paced, had me turning pages as I tore through it – I had to see how it would end. The characters were well rounded and the narrative felt believable. Gave me chills. Solid five

A fun twisty read. Harper lives in a very controlling community and when two residents are found dead in their home, Ruby is arrested. Well, Ruby is out of prison and is back in the neighborhood for possible revenge. A compelling and creative storyline. Highly recommend.

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced copy.

I was very excited to receive an approval for Such A Quiet Place. All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda was one of my favorite thrillers of the past. I went into this book with high expectations. Unfortunately, however, I did not enjoy Such A Quiet Place AT ALL compared to other books by the author. I felt the writing was repetitive and lacked luster. I did not connect to any of the characters, and just did not care about the final outcome of the story, or "who-done-it". Sadly, instead of a hit, this was just a big miss for me. I hate to give a negative review to one of Miranda's novels, but I just didn't enjoy this book at all.

Thank you NetGalley, Megan Miranda, Simon & Schuster for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. I have read all of this authors book and have loved all of them. However, I felt like this one was a little darker than the others....maybe it was the characters or the writing approach, but I loved it.

Such A Quiet Place is centered around Ruby who has come back to her small town to clear her name after a mistrial in the murder of her neighbors, the Truetts. Ruby shows up on the doorstep of her old home that she shared with her roommate Harper. Harper and the rest of their neighbors/friends are still suspicious of Ruby. Harper wants to find out her true intentions, but ends up uncovering secrets of neighbors she thought she knew.

This novel is twisty and leaves you feeling a little uneasy because you never really know people. Such a Quiet Place blew me away and just shows how much Megan has grown as an author over the years. I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a good thriller.

Thank you to both NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me an advance copy of Megan Miranda’s latest thriller, Such a Quiet Place, in exchange for an honest review.

This is not my first encounter with Ms. Miranda’s writing, so it was not surprising when I felt the same way I usually do after reading one of her novels: average. This one was a solid three for me as the writing felt a little flat. The characters were neither particularly likeable, nor distinguishable for that matter. The story is told from the perspective of the protagonist, Harper Nash, and kicks off with a message from the Hollow’s Edge Community Page—the fictional message board that appears approximately every two to three chapters along with an illustration.

Such a Quiet Place opens with the antagonist, Ruby Fletcher, showing up at Harper’s door fresh out of prison. I happen to like when there are a lot of characters to keep track of, but due to their blandness or how Harper needs to recap everything the reader missed up to this point, the beginning was a confusing mess.

Fortunately, the story improves around chapter six/seven and becomes a page-turner. The plot is compelling and though the concept of a gated community with secrets is trite, it happened to work well here. Also, I do not often say this, but the book could have benefitted from an epilogue.

In sum, if you enjoy Ms. Miranda’s novels and are looking for a beach read or a quick thrill, then Such a Quiet Place might do the trick.

I love Megan Miranda and the suffocating tension of this thriller that takes place in a neighborhood full of secrets. This kept me on the edge of my seat until the last page. Then as soon as I finished I read it again. I highly recommend this.

Some authors mature with the progression of their writing while others fizzle out. Megan Miranda has fine-tuned her writing, and with her recent releases over the past few years, I’ve seen great growth in her as a writer.

Such a Quiet Place was a thriller unlike anything I’ve ever read before. The crime seemingly solved, and quiet unrest simmering on every page. But, this book blew me away. It left me reflecting on questions like:
-How well do we know people we think we know?
-How often is justice obscured because of withheld information?
-Do I let past convictions taint my view of those with criminal records?
-How do we measure the worth of a man or woman?
-How far are we willing to go to preserve peace and acceptance?
-How do we find solace in relationship when inevitably, we are all humans all too willing to put our best face forward.

I really loved reading this. Miranda wove a twisty tale of mob mentality and secrets kept that hid behind an alarmingly easy read. I finished it both satisfied and unsettled that I could read it quickly and calmly, never prepared for the heartbreak awaiting.

Thank you, NetGalley, Megan Miranda, and Simon & Schuster for this eARC. I devoured it as soon as I had access, and it sure didn’t disappoint. Go ahead and preorder this one and put it on all of your TBR lists. It’s well worth the read! Run, don’t walk, to get your hands on this novel when it’s released on July 13!

This book starts off, and continues, with a story that wraps you up in the mystery of who killed the Truetts. I was glued to this one and found the tale riveting. Ruby, a shady character for sure, returns to exonerate herself of the murder after a mistrial. Her roommate, Harper, is obviously suspicious, as are all the neighbors. So who did kill the Truetts? I guess you’ll have to add this one to your reading list to find out!