📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Perfect Stranger
AUTHOR: Megan Miranda @meganlmiranda
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: April 11, 2019
The Review 📚 The Perfect Stranger
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I have been reading Megan Miranda’s backlist for most of this year!
💜 What I liked:
- The story is immersive and really about the journey of Leah as she tries to figure out who her missing roommate Emmy really was. There isn’t a lot that feels out of place here or untrue in the writings. Everything about the twist was wholly believeable.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Sometimes the jumps between her past recollections and the present was confusing. You are caught a little by understanding when her thoughts take place. Looking back, it’s hard to remember exactly what the twists were. But I remember it being a really good time.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Intense mystery
- 2. Mystaken identity
- 3. Perception of truth
- 4. Murder investigation
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Leah decides to move in with Emmy. But does she even really know her?
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Perfect Stranger
Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later.
Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends, family, or a digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah’s credibility is at stake, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey—and along the way, confront her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own name.
Everyone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to hide—including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are busy hiding your own?