alydes's review against another edition
5.0
another book that i sped through in a day. it messed with my head and i loved it
joleennneeee's review against another edition
3.0
Megan Miranda does not disappoint. Leah wants to escape her past and start over and stumbles into an opportunity to move to a small town with a friend she reconnects with 8 years after college. A few months later, a crime happens in the small town that keeps circling back to Leah at the same time that her roommate goes missing. As the case gets investigated, Leah realizes that there is no evidence that her roommate ever existed. A thriller that poses the question: can we ever really know another person, or do we create a story about who a person is based on who we want them to be?
nicksmom08's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
amelierawr's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Death
Minor: Suicide
damnthereiam's review against another edition
3.0
I would have liked more twists and turns. When the truth was revealed I just thought to myself "oh, ok" instead of "woah, what in the what!?" It was just a drawn of SWF storyline.
libraryleslie's review
5.0
This is my favorite Megan Miranda book so far. I had no idea where it was going. Nothing is what it seems.
Leah has nothing left in Boston. Her career is ruined and her boyfriend turned on her. She is desperate when a chance run in with an old roommate has her escaping to a small town in Pennsylvania. But soon a woman ends up in acoma who looks just like Leah. And Leah realizes it's been days since she saw her roommate. Those calls in the middle of the night and the creepy emails now seem like a warning. Who is watching Leah and what happened to Emmy?
Leah has nothing left in Boston. Her career is ruined and her boyfriend turned on her. She is desperate when a chance run in with an old roommate has her escaping to a small town in Pennsylvania. But soon a woman ends up in acoma who looks just like Leah. And Leah realizes it's been days since she saw her roommate. Those calls in the middle of the night and the creepy emails now seem like a warning. Who is watching Leah and what happened to Emmy?
bibliophile_394's review against another edition
3.0
Psychological thriller that has you questioning whether you can believe the narrator or not. Is she telling the truth? Or is she truly insane? The ending was a good wrap up, but I feel like the story could have been told better.
ajlawford's review against another edition
4.0
An enjoyable fast paced thriller with distinctive interesting characters woven in with a crime mystery. I enjoyed myself reading this and kept wanting to pick it up. However there were a few things about the writing the bugged me.
The Last House Guest is the only other Megan Miranda book I’ve read, and it too had an overly vague writing style. Many times, I wasn’t very clear on exactly was happening. There were lots of words, just that the sentences didn’t really make sense together. This style gave a mood and a tone that was clear, but I didn’t really know what was happening with the characters. All does get revealed, it was just annoying being confused a lot of the time.
The sentence structure was also short and choppy. Which normally I like because it leads to a fast paced read. This book is easy to read in that way, it’s just sometimes it was too short and choppy and it took me out of the reading experience.
Another complaint is the pacing. I kept waiting for the story to get going, and it finally does at the 60%, when the blurb finally stops spoiling the plot! It was a bit slow and drawn out to this point, and then too much was squished into the end. I didn’t like how much I had to read to get to plot I didn’t know about. I didn’t guess the ending, but I wasn’t shocked or surprised either. There was no real emotional impact at the end.
The main character is a Journalist, and I don’t think I connected with the themes of truth versus lies, reputations, and trust. There was a lot of fluff around these topics that I think was supposed to be insightful, but just fell flat for me.
Overall, an enjoyable, easy read, but one that’ll likely be forgotten.
The Last House Guest is the only other Megan Miranda book I’ve read, and it too had an overly vague writing style. Many times, I wasn’t very clear on exactly was happening. There were lots of words, just that the sentences didn’t really make sense together. This style gave a mood and a tone that was clear, but I didn’t really know what was happening with the characters. All does get revealed, it was just annoying being confused a lot of the time.
The sentence structure was also short and choppy. Which normally I like because it leads to a fast paced read. This book is easy to read in that way, it’s just sometimes it was too short and choppy and it took me out of the reading experience.
Another complaint is the pacing. I kept waiting for the story to get going, and it finally does at the 60%, when the blurb finally stops spoiling the plot! It was a bit slow and drawn out to this point, and then too much was squished into the end. I didn’t like how much I had to read to get to plot I didn’t know about. I didn’t guess the ending, but I wasn’t shocked or surprised either. There was no real emotional impact at the end.
The main character is a Journalist, and I don’t think I connected with the themes of truth versus lies, reputations, and trust. There was a lot of fluff around these topics that I think was supposed to be insightful, but just fell flat for me.
Overall, an enjoyable, easy read, but one that’ll likely be forgotten.
sofya's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
lianareadsblog's review against another edition
4.0
I only read a few chapters but I want more!
I would love to read more from this book as I got hooked from the first page.
It is a new to me author but I really enjoyed the writing style and I can see easily how i will probably read this book in one sitting as I don’t know where to go from here, there are so many possibilities for the story to take us on a rollercoaster of emotions for sure.
They say you do not know the person next to you in a lifetime even if you live together and this story might be another example how much we let ourselves trust the friends that come into our lives and we think we know everything about them but there are always small pieces of us that we won’t share with anyone no matter how much that person means to us. Looking forward to read more of this story
I would love to read more from this book as I got hooked from the first page.
It is a new to me author but I really enjoyed the writing style and I can see easily how i will probably read this book in one sitting as I don’t know where to go from here, there are so many possibilities for the story to take us on a rollercoaster of emotions for sure.
They say you do not know the person next to you in a lifetime even if you live together and this story might be another example how much we let ourselves trust the friends that come into our lives and we think we know everything about them but there are always small pieces of us that we won’t share with anyone no matter how much that person means to us. Looking forward to read more of this story