Book Review: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

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Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I pick up 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 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... ~~~~ What isn't disclosed here but is disclosed early on in the book (so not really a spoiler) our narrator of Part 1 is Minnie who is an ex-convict who was living in her car before she got this job. She has kept this a secret from the Winchesters. Part 2 is narrated by Nina (Mrs. Winchester), and then back and forth between the two POV's. This was a can't put downable read. The chapters were very short. The story intriguing. The reader really thinks they know what is going on, or what will happen. Nothing is predictable in this story. So many jaw-dropping twists and turns. And that's what makes this such a great thriller. The next book, The Housemaid's Secret, is out now and I MUST have it. This was definitely a 5 star read.