I first started reading this book so long ago and I have no idea why I ever put it down and didn’t pick it back up. Megan Miranda’s work always keeps me hooked, but when I picked it back up the other day, I was back in the cycle of not wanting to put it down, and I managed to read it over the course of 2 days in 3 sittings.
This book follows Olivia Meyer, formerly Arden Maynor, 20 years after she was in an accident as a child. Nobody in her new town knows anything abouther past life, and she hopes to keep it that way, until she is forced to tell her story to those around her after she finds herself in the middle of an active crime scene.
Olivia is prone to sleepwalking, which is how she ended up stuck in a drain when she was 6, and even 20 years later, she hasn’t grown out of it, and she doesn’t remember anything from her escapades when she wakes up, so when she wakes up next to a dead body one night, she worries, and rightfully so. She doesn’t know who it is at her feet and to make it worse for her, she doesn’t know if she is the one responsible for their death. She and her elderly neighbour are the only two who live on the land where the body is found, so off the bat, I thought that it could only be one of the two of them. Rick, her neighbour, seems harmless at first, maybe a bit reclusive at first, but when the police tell Olivia about his past, she starts to debate who, out of the two of them, could have been capable of killing.
It is soon revealed that the dead person, is the man who found her in the drain when she was younger, and the only reason that he was in her new town was to warn her, but he never got the chance before he died, so Olivia never found out of the danger heading her way until it was too late. With a red herring placed in the mix, I thought that it was over sooner than it was, and I knew it wasn’t going to be the end as there were too many pages left with not a lot left to be said.
Megan Miranda definitely does a fabulous job at keeping you guessing until the very and, and in this case, the very last chapter has a twist, which I think another one of her books, The Perfect Stranger, does too, or at least the last few chapters, becasue I remember being shocked near the end, just like I was with this book.
I knew that there was something fishy about her accident as a child, and while we did kind find out why Sean Coleman – the dead man – was in town, we don’t know for definite if it was to tell her that her disappearance was a set up, or just what we found out in the final chapter.
A good addition to this book, was the fact that transcripts and news articles from when Olivia was younger were included at the end of every chapter, and it was only better when I realised why they were there. Miranda is a very clever writer. I like when a book includes extra elements so that it isn’t all just chunks of text throughout, they give you something small between chapters.
I’d only read another 2 of Megan Mirands books before this one, but as soon as I finished reading this one, I dug out the other books of hers that I own, and I can’t wait to read them.
This book follows Olivia Meyer, formerly Arden Maynor, 20 years after she was in an accident as a child. Nobody in her new town knows anything abouther past life, and she hopes to keep it that way, until she is forced to tell her story to those around her after she finds herself in the middle of an active crime scene.
Olivia is prone to sleepwalking, which is how she ended up stuck in a drain when she was 6, and even 20 years later, she hasn’t grown out of it, and she doesn’t remember anything from her escapades when she wakes up, so when she wakes up next to a dead body one night, she worries, and rightfully so. She doesn’t know who it is at her feet and to make it worse for her, she doesn’t know if she is the one responsible for their death. She and her elderly neighbour are the only two who live on the land where the body is found, so off the bat, I thought that it could only be one of the two of them. Rick, her neighbour, seems harmless at first, maybe a bit reclusive at first, but when the police tell Olivia about his past, she starts to debate who, out of the two of them, could have been capable of killing.
It is soon revealed that the dead person, is the man who found her in the drain when she was younger, and the only reason that he was in her new town was to warn her, but he never got the chance before he died, so Olivia never found out of the danger heading her way until it was too late. With a red herring placed in the mix, I thought that it was over sooner than it was, and I knew it wasn’t going to be the end as there were too many pages left with not a lot left to be said.
Megan Miranda definitely does a fabulous job at keeping you guessing until the very and, and in this case, the very last chapter has a twist, which I think another one of her books, The Perfect Stranger, does too, or at least the last few chapters, becasue I remember being shocked near the end, just like I was with this book.
I knew that there was something fishy about her accident as a child, and while we did kind find out why Sean Coleman – the dead man – was in town, we don’t know for definite if it was to tell her that her disappearance was a set up, or just what we found out in the final chapter.
A good addition to this book, was the fact that transcripts and news articles from when Olivia was younger were included at the end of every chapter, and it was only better when I realised why they were there. Miranda is a very clever writer. I like when a book includes extra elements so that it isn’t all just chunks of text throughout, they give you something small between chapters.
I’d only read another 2 of Megan Mirands books before this one, but as soon as I finished reading this one, I dug out the other books of hers that I own, and I can’t wait to read them.