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The Perfect Stranger
by Megan Miranda
3.5 stars
I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Leah Stevens had to leave Boston after an expose she wrote for her paper went horribly wrong. Now she is a teacher and living with an old friend when a girl is found in a coma near her home. The same day she realises her roommate is missing, and as she starts investigating the two realises they are connected, and somehow she may be involved as well.
This was pretty interesting, and definitely kept me gripped until the end. At first I felt like the story seemed to jump all over the place from Lena in Pennsylvania to Leah in Boston, and then Leah as a teacher to Leah as a young journalist living with Paige and Aaron. It made my head spin a bit but this jumping around definitely settled down after a while.
I liked how everything was revealed so there was definitely a part of me that could’t figure out what it was about Leah that seemed to attract trouble. I also would have liked more of an explanation as to why her (other)stalker decided to act like that, like what was it that made him decide to do those things - was he just being a creep or was he a bit obsessed with her in a sexual way? We never got answers about that.
Some of Leah’s actions around Emmy annoyed me, specifically that she just went barrelling into what could become crime scenes with little thought about fingerprints (Bethany’s apartment, the bit with the padlock under the house etc). I don’t know why she wouldn’t just tell Kyle and the police about everything, or give them full disclosure. It also became very apparent how little she knew about Emmy and it was just really weird that she would never wonder about these things before or become suspicious.
I did like the relationship with Kyle. I felt the chemistry between them from the get go but was surprised that Kyle was happy to go along with it in the middle of the investigation.
Overall, I did like this book and it kept me intrigued so I’ll definitely read mote of this author.
I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Leah Stevens had to leave Boston after an expose she wrote for her paper went horribly wrong. Now she is a teacher and living with an old friend when a girl is found in a coma near her home. The same day she realises her roommate is missing, and as she starts investigating the two realises they are connected, and somehow she may be involved as well.
This was pretty interesting, and definitely kept me gripped until the end. At first I felt like the story seemed to jump all over the place from Lena in Pennsylvania to Leah in Boston, and then Leah as a teacher to Leah as a young journalist living with Paige and Aaron. It made my head spin a bit but this jumping around definitely settled down after a while.
I liked how everything was revealed so there was definitely a part of me that could’t figure out what it was about Leah that seemed to attract trouble. I also would have liked more of an explanation as to why her (other)stalker decided to act like that, like what was it that made him decide to do those things - was he just being a creep or was he a bit obsessed with her in a sexual way? We never got answers about that.
Some of Leah’s actions around Emmy annoyed me, specifically that she just went barrelling into what could become crime scenes with little thought about fingerprints (Bethany’s apartment, the bit with the padlock under the house etc). I don’t know why she wouldn’t just tell Kyle and the police about everything, or give them full disclosure. It also became very apparent how little she knew about Emmy and it was just really weird that she would never wonder about these things before or become suspicious.
I did like the relationship with Kyle. I felt the chemistry between them from the get go but was surprised that Kyle was happy to go along with it in the middle of the investigation.
Overall, I did like this book and it kept me intrigued so I’ll definitely read mote of this author.