Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon Element Books | Marysue Rucci Books for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest thriller by Megan Miranda. All opinions expressed in this review are my own – 4.5 stars!
Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Beckett’s parents taught at the college so she was able to attend free. But her senior year ends tragically when her roommate is accused of setting a fire that kills two men before disappearing, and Beckett is suspected of being involved. Two decades later, Beckett’s daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and receives a full scholarship. Beckett is convinced that something is going to happen to Delilah.
I am always ready to read a dark academic tale, and this one had creepy vibes from the beginning, with mysterious tunnels underneath buildings, to rituals based around the first day of howling winds through the valley, to secrets galore. I liked how the book went back to the past when Beckett was in school to the present, ramping up the suspense that things are circling back. You can feel Beckett’s anguish over fears for her daughter’s safety, even as she remembers what it was like to be at Wyatt as a teenager. I was completely in the dark as to how things were going to resolve until the very end.
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