Megan Miranda once again, has not failed to amaze me. She has, yet again, managed to keep me guessing until the end. I've yet to see Miranda create her work in a completely linear narrative, and I think I'm starting to get on board with this style of story telling. This time around, she tells two stories, one from summer 2018, and another from summer 2017, the summer when Sadie Lomans was found dead. The summer of 2018 is when it is finally found out how she died.
Again, with another fast paced read, we learn how our main character, living in Littleport and managing a string of holiday homes, Avery pieces together new clues that come to light the year after the accident, and ultimately, discovers the truth about how her best friend actually met her end.
Avery has lived alongside the Lomans' since her grandmother died when she was younger, as her parents also died in a car crash years before, but what seems like a lavish lifestyle, of course, hides plenty of secrets, from everyone on the outside, and even Avery herself.
Littleport has always been a town that attracts tourists in the summer, but the year after Sadie's death, there seem to be a lot of break ins across the homes the Lomans own, which, in the end, scares off the customers that are residing there during their contract. It is later revealed that, much like all break ins, they are premeditated, but this time, for a specific reason.
It took me a few chapters to grasp what was going on, so at first, I thought that the story was a bit all over the place, but once I realised that it was ocassionally back and forth, I understood what was going on a little bit more, but there was still a few ocassions where the story still felt a bit scrambled, but that doesn't make the book any less than enjoyable.
With the police ruling Sadie's death a suicide, the case was pushed under the rug, until Avery finds her phone in the house where the news about Sadie was broke the year before. After this, she finds other spots of evidence that could bring the case back to life, as she thinks that Sadie's death was not a suicide, and she was murdered, and like any thriller book, the murderer is still out there keeping the secret.
Like with every book I read, I hazard a guess as to who I think the killer could be, and this time around, even though I was joking, it was them. I thought, "oh, watch it be [this person], they're making out as if it's someone else", and it turns out it was actually that person! As if. Unlike most books, they weren't actually there much, but once it was revealed that it was them, new evidence came about in regards to them being on the scene the year before. This book had me actually shocked at the reveal even though I'd guessed it.
Again, with another fast paced read, we learn how our main character, living in Littleport and managing a string of holiday homes, Avery pieces together new clues that come to light the year after the accident, and ultimately, discovers the truth about how her best friend actually met her end.
Avery has lived alongside the Lomans' since her grandmother died when she was younger, as her parents also died in a car crash years before, but what seems like a lavish lifestyle, of course, hides plenty of secrets, from everyone on the outside, and even Avery herself.
Littleport has always been a town that attracts tourists in the summer, but the year after Sadie's death, there seem to be a lot of break ins across the homes the Lomans own, which, in the end, scares off the customers that are residing there during their contract. It is later revealed that, much like all break ins, they are premeditated, but this time, for a specific reason.
It took me a few chapters to grasp what was going on, so at first, I thought that the story was a bit all over the place, but once I realised that it was ocassionally back and forth, I understood what was going on a little bit more, but there was still a few ocassions where the story still felt a bit scrambled, but that doesn't make the book any less than enjoyable.
With the police ruling Sadie's death a suicide, the case was pushed under the rug, until Avery finds her phone in the house where the news about Sadie was broke the year before. After this, she finds other spots of evidence that could bring the case back to life, as she thinks that Sadie's death was not a suicide, and she was murdered, and like any thriller book, the murderer is still out there keeping the secret.
Like with every book I read, I hazard a guess as to who I think the killer could be, and this time around, even though I was joking, it was them. I thought, "oh, watch it be [this person], they're making out as if it's someone else", and it turns out it was actually that person! As if. Unlike most books, they weren't actually there much, but once it was revealed that it was them, new evidence came about in regards to them being on the scene the year before. This book had me actually shocked at the reveal even though I'd guessed it.