“I was the girl who survived. The girl who held on. The girl you prayed for, or at least pretended to pray for – thankful most of all that it wasn’t your own child lost down there, in the dark.”
This book has been one of my most highly anticipated reads of the year mainly due to the buzz surrounding it. Even though I have not read anything before from this New York Times bestselling author, I have seen so many people recommend reading her books that I was eager to get my hands on this one! I was over the moon to be sent the book before its release next week.
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.” Arden Maynor was only six years old when she went sleepwalking during a huge storm and ended up being swept away and going missing for days. A miracle occurred by her being discovered clinging on for dear life to a storm drain. The public went wild about her story of survival and she became famous but fame always has a price. Soon some fans turned to stalkers and Arden, as soon as she was old enough had no choice but to leave Widow Hills and start a new life by changing her name to Olivia and keeping her past to herself in her new town.
Olivia now twenty years later has a career in hospital administration in North Carolina. She has new friends but no one knows about her media circus past. She still sleep walks and during one of her episodes she wakes up to find herself with blood on her hands and lying next to a dead body of a man. She has no idea what has happened to him. Did she kill him during her sleep? Or did someone else do it and try to make her look guilty? Whatever happened, it means Olivia is going to be the attracting unwanted media attention once again.
Now this book is one of them that you think you know what is going to happen, but honestly the ending literally blew my mind. I did not see it coming at all! It has so many twists and I think I suspected everybody at some point in the story! There were just so many elements that made it all so enjoyable to read and unbelievably compelling. The house that is on the out skirts of town that the main character lived in really gave the story a dark, eerie feel from the very start. The author manages successfully to create a feeling of unease throughout.
The only downside I found to the book was that it took me a good few chapters to get into the book. It soon picked up the pace however and I found I couldn’t keep my eyes off the page. My heart was beating so fast at times because of the tension at some parts of the story!
I loved how the book at the end of each chapter had excerpts from the investigation when Arden went missing and newspaper reports. It really helped to build up details from the past enough to understand what happened back then and how it might relate to the present and of course the murder.
After reading this suspenseful book, I would highly recommend this to any thriller fans. It is unlike any other plot I have read before it is just so original. So if you are expecting the usual run of the mill psychological thriller, this will most definitely not be what you expect.
This book has been one of my most highly anticipated reads of the year mainly due to the buzz surrounding it. Even though I have not read anything before from this New York Times bestselling author, I have seen so many people recommend reading her books that I was eager to get my hands on this one! I was over the moon to be sent the book before its release next week.
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.” Arden Maynor was only six years old when she went sleepwalking during a huge storm and ended up being swept away and going missing for days. A miracle occurred by her being discovered clinging on for dear life to a storm drain. The public went wild about her story of survival and she became famous but fame always has a price. Soon some fans turned to stalkers and Arden, as soon as she was old enough had no choice but to leave Widow Hills and start a new life by changing her name to Olivia and keeping her past to herself in her new town.
Olivia now twenty years later has a career in hospital administration in North Carolina. She has new friends but no one knows about her media circus past. She still sleep walks and during one of her episodes she wakes up to find herself with blood on her hands and lying next to a dead body of a man. She has no idea what has happened to him. Did she kill him during her sleep? Or did someone else do it and try to make her look guilty? Whatever happened, it means Olivia is going to be the attracting unwanted media attention once again.
Now this book is one of them that you think you know what is going to happen, but honestly the ending literally blew my mind. I did not see it coming at all! It has so many twists and I think I suspected everybody at some point in the story! There were just so many elements that made it all so enjoyable to read and unbelievably compelling. The house that is on the out skirts of town that the main character lived in really gave the story a dark, eerie feel from the very start. The author manages successfully to create a feeling of unease throughout.
The only downside I found to the book was that it took me a good few chapters to get into the book. It soon picked up the pace however and I found I couldn’t keep my eyes off the page. My heart was beating so fast at times because of the tension at some parts of the story!
I loved how the book at the end of each chapter had excerpts from the investigation when Arden went missing and newspaper reports. It really helped to build up details from the past enough to understand what happened back then and how it might relate to the present and of course the murder.
After reading this suspenseful book, I would highly recommend this to any thriller fans. It is unlike any other plot I have read before it is just so original. So if you are expecting the usual run of the mill psychological thriller, this will most definitely not be what you expect.