The Inmate by Freida McFadden

"The premise had promise but it was obvious very quickly that this plot was going to be paper thin. With a painfully oblivious FMC, the "suspense" is honestly laughable but McFadden did something right because I was curious. I had to see what happened but it just let me shaking my head."

⭐️

Pros: It was a quick, easy read.

Cons: Painfully predictable at the beginning and then hilariously ridiculous at the end.

Full Review

Brooke Sullivan just started her new job as an NP at the Raker State Penitentiary. If she wasn't already nervous about starting a new job, well, this one comes with an extra helping of awkward. The father of her child, the first boy she ever loved, her high-school sweetheart, just happens to be an inmate at the prison. And Brooke was the one who put him there.

He's Shane Nelson. Former star Quarterback and the boy of Brooke's dreams. At least that's what she thought on that fateful night, eleven years ago. when they confessed their love to one another and then a whole bunch of people ended up dead.

Though Brooke never saw his face, she knows it was Shane, twisting the necklace she always wore, choking her but she managed to escape. Her testimony helped put him behind bars. And a few weeks later after the trial, she realizes she's pregnant with Shane's child.

Her parents send her away and after years of a strained relationship, she eventually cuts them off. When they die in a car accident and the house is willed to her, she takes a chance. She decides that Raker is a better place to raise her son, who's being bullied in school for his predicament of not having a Father. And though this job seems a little lax and the fact that Shane is an inmate only makes things worse, she does her best to be professional.

That doesn't last.

Though I thought this book was painfully predictable, I was actually wrong. The ending unforunately turned out to be just absurd. This book was a reminder of why I don't read the Mystery/Thriller genre all that often because often, the "who dun it" reveal is just underwhelming.

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