Review of The Girl From Widow Hills

A woman who made headlines when she was a child now finds her past coming back to haunt her. Check out my review of The Girl From Widow Hills and find links to my spoiler post!

The Girl From Widow Hills. Published on June 23, 2020 by Simon & Schuster. This review contains affiliate links.

Synopsis from Goodreads: Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and held vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home. Until late one night she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life.

Review of the Girl From Widow Hills

The Girl From Widow Hills offers interesting look at a woman trying to hide from her past as the subject of a huge search two decades before. Arden, then a child, went missing one night when she was sleepwalking during a storm and got swept up into a storm drain. Now an adult, she’s changed her name to Olivia, moved away from her hometown, and hides her past and the psychological and physical effects of her ordeal.

As the twenty-year anniversary of her rescue approaches, Olivia grows uneasy and begins sleepwalking again. One night, she finds herself in her yard with blood on her hands. She’s tripped over a dead body. That’s weird enough, but when she learns the identity of the man she is shaken her to her core.

I don’t want to say too much more – if you want spoilers, please go right to my Girl From Widow Hills spoiler post! I liked Olivia and thought that the book did a good job portraying her psychological state, her troubled relationship with her mother, and the way she navigates being thrust back into her past.

I guessed most of who was behind all this, but I still found this an enjoyable read. The Girl From Widow Hills is a good page-turning summer mystery.

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