My review: 4.25⭐
Bam! This is my 3rd 4.25 star read just this week ~ I guess I know how to pick em.
~~~This is one of those books where I can’t say too much because I don’t want to give anything away ~~~
This clever, engaging domestic/psychological thriller is told in 3 parts. Each part ends with a BAM!
Part 1 pov ~ Millie is down on her luck and living in her car when she becomes the live~in Housemaid for the Winchesters. Happy to finally be able to sleep with her legs stretched out, she soon realizes her boss, Nina, is a nightmare to deal with.
Part 2 pov ~ Nina is married to Andrew Winchester. Here we find out why she really was the nightmare character she was.
Part 3 is told by both of them and really brings the whole story around to the perfect conclusion.
Tincy bit of predictability in some places, others parts not so much. There is some torture and abuse that could rattle some.
I like my thrillers fast paced and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed with this one. I do think I read a similar plot sometime in the last year though. I can definitely see why Freida’s books are all so highly rated as I’ll for sure be reading her again and again and again.
Excellent narration by Lauryn Allman, even when she did Andrew and Enzo’s parts.
As an allergy mom I REALLY hate when peanut allergies are lied about, however the comment was kinda redeemed later on in part 2.
*Thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture Audio and Freida McFadden for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb: Release date ~ April 26, 2022
“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…
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…
An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!
