I really enjoyed The Last House Guest. It was quite tense and claustrophobic as we learned about friends, Avery Greer and Sadie Loman, who had a rather intense relationship.
Sadie is the daughter of the wealthy Lomans and Avery works for the family looking after various apartments that they rent out to holidaymakers during the summer season. The two women become close friends but it's a rather strained and strange relationship at times and you're left wondering if Sadie has other motives or whether Avery has created a friendship between them that never really existed.
Avery's parents died in a car crash when she was a teenager and she was brought up by her grandmother, who has now died.
The story was rather slow burning at times but it was very readable and this helped to build up events nicely as we worked out what had happened at the end of summer season Plus-One party the year before, the night of Sadie's apparent suicide. The timeline switches between 2017, the year of Sadie's death, and 2018, exactly a year later, just before a memorial event for Sadie. This meant that some chapters ended on a cliffhanger, which was entertaining!
I enjoyed the fact that the book was set in a small seaside town called Littleport in Maine and liked the descriptions of the location, which helped me visualise everything well. Littleport is a typical beach holiday destination with lots of wealthy holidaymakers and local people who look after them.
Right until the last few chapters, I hadn't worked out what was going on and was surprised how it was all resolved. The characters had lots of secrets and the story contained several twists and turns and red herrings.
I hadn't read any books by Megan Miranda before but will definitely be checking out her others now.
Sadie is the daughter of the wealthy Lomans and Avery works for the family looking after various apartments that they rent out to holidaymakers during the summer season. The two women become close friends but it's a rather strained and strange relationship at times and you're left wondering if Sadie has other motives or whether Avery has created a friendship between them that never really existed.
Avery's parents died in a car crash when she was a teenager and she was brought up by her grandmother, who has now died.
The story was rather slow burning at times but it was very readable and this helped to build up events nicely as we worked out what had happened at the end of summer season Plus-One party the year before, the night of Sadie's apparent suicide. The timeline switches between 2017, the year of Sadie's death, and 2018, exactly a year later, just before a memorial event for Sadie. This meant that some chapters ended on a cliffhanger, which was entertaining!
I enjoyed the fact that the book was set in a small seaside town called Littleport in Maine and liked the descriptions of the location, which helped me visualise everything well. Littleport is a typical beach holiday destination with lots of wealthy holidaymakers and local people who look after them.
Right until the last few chapters, I hadn't worked out what was going on and was surprised how it was all resolved. The characters had lots of secrets and the story contained several twists and turns and red herrings.
I hadn't read any books by Megan Miranda before but will definitely be checking out her others now.