The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1) by Freida McFadden

"McFadden's gift with pacing mixed with her dark but relatbale humor and a plot easy enough to follow but complicated enough to keep you guessing, well, she had me from the start. This was a fun, page-turner that had me eager to sit down and read."

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Pros: Enzo, duh, man was the real hero/McFadden's writing style is easy and smooth, very readable/The twists were fun and twisted indeed/The idea of a series makes me hesitate but at the same time I am curious, so we shall see.

Cons: Honestly, I think McFadden tied up every loophole so I appreciated the well thought out plot but at the same time, it was silly how every man that existed was utterly gorgeous 🤣.

Full Review:

Wilhelmina "Millie" Calloway is desperate. She's been evicted from her apartment, fired from her job and has been living out of her car and eating nothing but sandwiches for a month. So, when she manages to land a job as a house-keeper/maid for a well-to-do family in Long Island, she feels like it could all be way too good to be true.

Nothing this good has happened to her in more than a decade, since before she went to jail.

And that whole, having a crimical record and a pottential employer doing a background check, seeing your rap sheet and throwing your "resume" away...thing...that really sticks with a person. So, the fact that she landed this job, seems a miracle at first, but then, things quickly start to sink in.

Her employer, Nina Winchester, wife to the successful and devastatingly handsome Andrew Winchester is completely and utterly unhinged. She's flighty, demanding, emotional, irrational and cruel. Her moods change on a dime and Millie soon stops trying to predict her. She just goes with it because she hasn't saved up enough to buy her own place yet. But she will, eventually, she'll get away from the Hellbeast that is Nina Winchester.

That is, until, fate aligns and one of Nina's massive mood tsunamis overwhelms everyone, Millie finds heself on, well, a date with Andrew Winchester. The one man she shouldn't have feelings for but dammit, she does. She can't help it. In the chaos that is Nina and Cece, the psychopath's creepy, vacant-eyed child, Andrew is a surprising source of calm and strength. And well, she's developed quite a crush.

One thing leads to another and just when you think everything's going to get cliche, oh, no.

No.

McFadden cracks her nack and mutters to a friend, "Hold my beer..."

This was a fun, fast-paced, psychological, had you guessing page-turner. The chapters weren't too long, there were good stopping points and McFadden threa some hard scenes in there. I found myself eager and excited to get time to sit down and read this, so the series isn't out of the question.

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