The Housemaid: An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist

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While most of us might indeed be law-abiding citizens, there are numerous enough cases throughout history of people turning their houses into dens of evil that we must admit one thing: we don’t truly know what our neighbours are up to. So now the daughter is hoping to find someone who was there when the mother was, to try to find an explanation as to why she was abandoned. When she gets a job offer by Nina Winchester to be a housemaid in the Winchester’s beautiful home, she is more than happy to overlook all the small issues that come with the position. I will concede the first half of the book does move a little more slowly, largely to give the author the chance to drum up the mystery to her liking, to leave clues laying about for our benefit, and naturally, to create expectations which will subsequently be shattered.

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A young woman takes a job as a live in maid-not only because she is essentially homeless and needs a place to live just as much as she needs a job, but also because her mother worked there as a maid 20 years ago.

With it being an old house, there are also lots of secret passageways which gave the whole feel of the story an even more edgier feel. And even though I liked our edgy main character, I still didn't get *why* she would put up with certain things. At Andrew’s wake, Evelyn Winchester, Andrew’s mother, reveals to Nina that she disciplined Andrew as a child in a similar manner to how Andrew tortured Nina. 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.

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When Kat tells you to read “the housemaid” for book club and you realize 46% of the way thru that it’s the wrong book 😂 first half was boring af but honestly I didn’t love the writing at all in the second half but the plot wasn’t half bad! Huxley who has been working there for the past twenty three years has been guiding all the workers but something is there about her which is quite unsettling for Howard. Funnily enough, it almost seems like the more they clash against each other, the more their similarities become unveiled. Alex in particular and you feel early on that this is someone who is dangerous and things can’t possibly end well where he is concerned.

Freida McFadden was a name that kept popping up to me, especially since I’ve gotten much more into thrillers lately.

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The main character sits with the mysterious Alex Howard and turns the pages of his music as he plays the piano. In her latest offering, titled The Housemaid, she tells the story of Millie, a recently-paroled woman who takes on a live-in job out of pure necessity, in spite of the torment it might bring her. The author obviously takes great pleasure in misdirecting her readers and getting them caught up on red herrings, to the point where it felt as if she was challenging me directly. We place a focus on finding the great works which might be overshadowed by their more popular peers. With the heavy emphasis placed by the author on the psychological aspect of this novel, you might assume there would be little room left to make a thriller out of it.

But once settled in, the piling mess of all the things that don’t add up are getting harder and harder to ignore.

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She’s best known to date on the feature side for penning the horror-drama The Keeping Hours, produced by Blumhouse and directed by Karen Moncrieff, which won the Audience Award upon its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. I thought this theme was incredibly clever and provides a brutally honest view into modern British society. She is a recovering drug addict who thinks she has finally found her lucky break by getting a job at Highwood Hall.Though he might be relegated to more of a secondary role with no chapters dedicated to him, Andrew Winchester still remains an integral piece of the puzzle, and his presence in the story is often used to maximum effect. A huge thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden in exchange for an honest review. David Ben Efraim is a book reviewer living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and co-owner of Bookwormex, as well as the Quick Book Reviews blog, along with Yakov Ben Efraim. This one works as a Gothic-style novel, complete with the huge house, creepy rich family and strange sounds.