A review by jdye6529
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda

3.0

This book was good mostly. However there were a few things that annoyed me that may not be an issue for other readers. It was excellent at misdirecting, I kept changing who I thought was guilt so that was very well done. However in the process of cultivating the misdirection the author turned the lead character, Avery Greer into a person I couldn’t have cared less about. Instead of her being a concerned grief stricken friend that I wanted to find the truth. She came across as a love sick puppy who’s feelings weren’t returned. The author did this to set up a plausible guilt scenario, as she did with all the major characters. However it didn’t work for me. I got very annoyed with the “poor Sadie was so wonderful and should be worshiped how could this happen”. The first half of the book read more as a diary of an obsessed women, the story didn’t really begin to unfold in any meaningful way until the second half. Though I did enjoy how the story ultimately played out, I wish it had been better done.