Tag: fredia mcfadden

Thriller
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪

The Housemaid is a pretty standard domestic thriller, but man did it suck me in. Millie, recently out of prison, is desperate to find employment and thinks she hit the jackpot when Nina Winchester hires her as a live-in housemaid. Although her attic room that has a lock on the outside is a littttle concerning, Millie’s just thankful to not be living in her car anymore. Soon, Nina’s unpredictable cruelty begins to weigh on Millie.

This was the kind of thriller where I knew things were not as they seemed, but I was always one step behind. I had a general sense that the relationships within the household were being influenced by something I was in the dark about and I couldn’t stop reading until I knew more. There’s a perspective shift from Millie to Nina partway through the book that I was not expecting but loved. Getting the opposite perspective put the first half of the book wonderfully into perspective.

Ultimately, the ending of this book really sealed the deal for me. Even though we did get some different points of view throughout, the ending showed just how much calculation and manipulation were going on behind the scenes and it was so satisfying. I will definitely be reading more Freida McFadden!

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