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…
“What do you like to read?”
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
“Books.”
“What kind of books?”
“The kind with words.”
My Thoughts
This book kept my interest enough to keep reading and to finish it. However, it was extremely predictable in my opinion. I saw the “twist” from before halfway through the book. I rated it pretty low, the writing was okay, the plot was just very predictable. The entire time I kept thinking, “If she just leaves none of this would be happening” and it seemed far-fetched that someone would put themselves through what the main character put herself through.
All in all, I don’t regret reading it but not the best and I won’t be continuing the series.
Content Warnings
As some may consider content warnings a spoiler, I have hidden them behind a spoiler warning.
Domestic Abuse, Torture, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic Relationship, Confinement, Mental Illness, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual content