The Housemaid
Author: Freida McFadden
Pages: 329
Genre: Realistic fiction, thriller, mystery
Series: The Housemaid #1
Hook:
Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.
I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.
I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.
But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.
They don’t know what I’m capable of…
Rating: 6.7/10
I would maybe recommend this book
Review: So this book went by really quickly for me. I read it in less than 24 hours. That’s not to say it was a great book though. The general plot was… interesting but I just never really was enjoying myself. I wasn’t bored while reading it but there are just so many books with better, more interesting plots, in my opinion. To give credit where credit is due however, near the ending was a massive PLOT TWIST that I totally didn’t expect. Other than that, when it comes to characters, I thought there was a lack of character development. So, overall it certainly wasn’t a waste and I was surprised with the plot twist, but I wish I could have felt more connected to Millie or have had a slightly different plot type.
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“#1 New York Times, Amazon Charts, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author Freida McFadden is a physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages.
Freida lives with her family and cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.” -