The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden - A Book Review
Synopsis:
It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.
It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything…
That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe.
Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go…
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Tropes:
The Housemaid’s Secret is the second book in The Housemaid Series by author Freida McFadden. I was first introduced to Freida’s books through Tik Tok, which ultimately led me to read the first book in the series – The Housemaid.
I enjoyed reading the first book in the series and was surprised at where the storyline lead to – it was something I didn’t anticipate happening. I like my psychological thrillers to be heart racing, shocking and anxiety inducing, which I didn’t find The Housemaid to be – but equally, I enjoyed it and enough to intrigue me to read the second book in the series and to ultimately follow where Millie’s storyline goes.
The Housemaid’s Secret follows Millie Calloway in life after the Winchesters, where she is working with landscaper and boyfriend, Enzo to help other vulnerable woman in need, to escape their abusive husbands. The pair worked together until Enzo abruptly left to Sicily, to visit his sick mother who had recently suffered a stroke. The sudden absence put a strain on Millie and Enzo’s relationship, which ultimately resulted in their separation. However, Enzo’s departure wasn’t revealed until part way through the book.
The prologue follows a character, assumed to be Millie, in a deadly situation where she is faced with defending herself against an intruder in the dark. During the attack, she trips and slips on something wet – when the moonlight from outside shines through to the floor, she realises she’s slipped on blood; but not her own. The question of whose blood is then presented, before we are met with Millie in present day.
After working to help women escape their abusive husbands, Millie begins working for a lady where she cleans and looks after her child. However, this job is cut short when the baby Millie has been babysitting begins calling her mama in front of her actual mam, resulting in her being fired. Subsequently after being fired, Millie puts up a job ad that advertises her skills of being a housemaid. This leads her to gain a job from Douglas Garrick, a very successful and rich businessman.
During their meeting, Millie is met with a kind and caring man who worries about his wife and her mental state. It is revealed to Millie that she has been hired to help relieve his wife Wendy of her housewife duties, due to her sudden illness. It is at this point that Douglas explicitly states that Millie is to stay clear of Wendy’s room, due to her needing her rest. However, this only intrigues Millie, where she inserts herself – leaving her in some danger.
Millie begins her role as housemaid for the Garrick’s, but is feeling on edge with the atmosphere inside the house and the feeling that someone is watching her every move. She begins to notice she’s being followed by a black Mazda, which has a smashed headlight and grows anxious and suspicious of who it could be.
As she’s cleaning inside of the Garrick’s penthouse, Millie is discovers signs that Wendy may be being abused by her husband. Millie presents the uneasy feeling she has to boyfriend Brock, who lightly brushes it off and tells her to stay clear – whilst pressuring her into moving in with him. Whilst knowing she must tell boyfriend Brock of her history, Millie stalls from telling him the truth as she’s too caught up in someone else’s life. However, as she continues to work in the Garrick penthouse, Millie uncovers further signs of Wendy’s abuse, which leads her to seek a conversation from a reluctant Wendy.
Whilst working to uncover Wendy’s abuse, Millie feels like she’s being followed home, but it is revealed to be a strange neighbour that leaves her feeling uneasy at his behaviour. During an interaction, the strange neighbour attempts to force himself on Millie, resulting in him being maced and thrown down a flight of stairs. When the police arrive, Millie is treated as the suspect due to her prison record and because a neighbour saw her kicking into him. It is left hanging whether the neighbour will be pressing charges, so she finally accepts to move in with boyfriend Brock, as a way to feel safe. However, this plan is cut short when the creepy neighbour is being arrested for housing drugs. Millie’s relationship with Brock is strained as she continues to avoid the serious conversation that must be had about her history.
Millie discovers that her job advertisement failed to go live, leaving her feeling uneasy and questioning how Douglas was able to find her services. When she approaches Douglas, he reveals that it was in fact Wendy who came across her services after she was recommended by a friend. This is when Millie connects the dots that she was recommended by a previous employer who she helped escape their husband.
After much persuasion, Wendy admits that she is indeed being abused by Douglas and wants help from Millie to escape her powerful husband. Millie sets up a plan to help Wendy, after Wendy seeks shelter from an old friend. Millie is tasked with driving her to a motel, until her friend can collect her. When driving to the motel, Millie spots the black Mazda that has been following her, but is able to loose it.
After safely dropping Wendy off at the motel, Millie returns the hire car, where she yet again spots the black Mazda. This time, the person inside the Mazda reveals themself and it is revealed as Enzo. Following a conversation, Millie sends Enzo away convincing him she doesn’t need a bodyguard.
Just when Millie believes Wendy is safe, she receives a phone call from Wendy telling her that Douglas found her and has brought her back to the penthouse. Millie returns to the penthouse to help Wendy, but it all becomes too much for her, where Wendy shows Millie the gun she plans on killing Douglas with. Millie convinces Wendy not to follow through with her plan and reassures her that she’ll find away to get her away from Douglas.
When Millie sets out doing her housemaid duties around the penthouse, she overhears an argument between Wendy and Douglas that leads to smashing and banging. Believing that Wendy is in serious danger, she finds the gun Wendy intended to use and bursts through the door to save Wendy. When entering, Millie discovers Wendy being choked out by Douglas and demands he lets her go – only Douglas refuses, leaving Millie to shoot the gun.
Millie’s life is turned upside down when the police knock at her door the following morning, where they request her presence down the station. Now realising she must reveal the truth to Brock, she asks for him to be her lawyer where she finally reveals her past to him. Millie attempts to twist the truth to save Wendy, but the evidence is stacked against her – where the detective informs her that Wendy has stated that Millie was the one who shot Douglas and that they were secretly having an affair.
After being left confused, the story transitions to Wendy’s POV where it follows several chapters dated a year before the incident. During these chapters, it is revealed that Wendy only married Douglas for his fortune and had plans to transform him into the man of her dreams. After failing to transform Douglas and Douglas loosing interest in the finer things of life, Wendy meets Russell who she begins having an affair with. After some time, Douglas discovers Wendy’s affair and subsequently freezes her cards, to which Wendy is not happy about. Upon the reveal of Douglas’ actions, Wendy asks for a divorce where she accepts that she’ll only receive $10 million outlined in their prenup. However, Douglas reveals that the section of the prenup is void where Wendy is found of committing adultery and as a result, will receive no money in the event of a divorce. Wendy believes that Douglas has no proof, but he reveals that there are cameras set up in their apartment which show Wendy committing the affair.
Wendy comes to realise she’ll be left with nothing if they divorce, but quickly realises she’ll get Douglas’ entire inheritance in the event where he dies.
This sets Wendy’s plan into motion, where it is revealed that she intentionally hired Millie to take the blame for Douglas’ murder because of her previous history. After learning Millie will do anything for woman being abused, Wendy begins faking her injuries and hires boyfriend Russell to play the role of her husband Douglas. With Douglas never being at the penthouse, it’s the perfect plan to make Millie believe that Russell is Douglas and is therefore abusing Wendy.
As the plan is set into motion, Russell pretends to be Douglas so that Millie can be framed for the real Douglas’ murder. Upon seeing Russell attack Wendy pretending to be Douglas, she fires the gun at Russell – not knowing it’s a blank round, she leaves believing she killed Douglas. After Millie leaves, Wendy uses the gun with Millie’s fingerprints on to kill the real Douglas. Douglas is then lured to the penthouse where he believes that Wendy is going to sign the divorce papers, but in actual fact, he’s going to be killed by Russell. However, Russell’s unable to go through with pulling the trigger, so Wendy does it for him with the gun covered with Millie’s fingerprints.
After the twist is revealed, the story transitions back to present day in Millie’s POV, where she and Enzo are attempting to make sense of Douglas’ death and who the person is that she pulled the trigger on.
Believing they got away with Douglas’ murder, Wendy and Russell take a trip to a cabin owned by Russell and his wife where they celebrate the new life they’ll be embarking on. Wendy receives a phone call from the detective, where she hopes he’ll reveal Millie’s imprisonment. The detective informs Wendy of the cameras Douglas had hidden in the back entrances prior to his death, which reveal that Millie’s framed of being the murder doesn’t line up with the timeline in the videos. Whilst on the phone, Wendy hears splashing and sounds of a struggle from the bathroom, which she believes to be Russell being too drunk. Wendy hangs up the phone when the detective asks of her whereabouts, as she is now the prime suspect in her husbands murder. When returning back to the bathroom, she discovers Russell in a pool of his blood and rushes to the kitchen, after suspecting someone had snuck into the cabin – that someone being Millie.
Wendy begins pleading with Millie in the dark as she attempts to run from her, when she feels a presence behind her – only it’s revealed as Russell’s wife. Russell’s wife demands answers and forces Wendy to write a confession letter for Dougla’s death. Wendy follows through with this believing she’ll be let go, only Russell’s wife reveals that she has overdosed Wendy on Douglas’ heart medication, leaving Wendy to die a slow and painful death.
Everything Millie was lead to believe about Douglas and Wendy’s marriage was a fabricated lie, set up by Wendy to make Millie believe she was being abused, so that Millie would be framed for Douglas’ murder and that Wendy would receive his inheritance.
The story ends with Millie being cleared of being a suspect of Douglas’ murder, as Wendy’s letter is found. Millie is seen to be continuing her relationship with Enzo and having a friend on the police force, who are aware of her help towards woman being abused.
From the two books of Freida’s that I’ve read, Freida sets the prologue as an attention grabbing chapter that intrigues the reader into wanting to know what has happened and the events that have lead the character to where they are at the point of the prologue.
Freida also draws your attention towards the wife in the story and develops their character in a way that makes you remorseful of them, so that you’re not focused on other possibilities of where the story may lead. During The Housemaid, I fully thought Nina was crazy and did not expect it to be the husband. Then for The Housemaid’s Secret, yet again I fully thought Wendy was the victim and did not expect her to be the crazy one.
I really enjoyed reading The Housemaid’s Secret, I was eager to know what happened next – despite being loaded with the flu. I really did not see the twist coming that Wendy was fabricating the abuse storyline, but I suppose it was to be expected at some point with all the woman Millie was helping – someone had to take advantage of that. I just didn’t think it would happen so quickly. Wendy really did intend for Millie to take the fall for Douglas’ murder.
I feel like the wife using Millie as a scapegoat has become a theme in the two books of the series so far, I did anticipate it being a theme in the final book. However, I feel like the theme of the final book will be slightly different to the first two books – going off the synopsis.
As previously mentioned, Freida likes to start her stories off with a prologue that is taking place at the height of the story – at the start of the twist. The prologue starts in the cabin and was set out to make you feel like it’s from Millie’s POV. After reading the prologue, you are left with questions you want answered, which Freida cleverly answers during the reveal.
I felt like Douglas’ actions were completely warranted and fair, why should he house and pay for someone whose been using his money and having an affair. That is not abuse in the slightest.
I can certainly say I didn’t see the twist coming, or the additional twist of Russell’s wife being the one to seek revenge. I did enjoy the book – however, I do feel like the end was slightly rushed. It wasn’t revealed to readers that Millie was informed of the plot, but that could be because she put it together herself and because the readers had already read through it, so therefore did not need to read through it again as it’s being revealed to Millie. As for the rushed ending, I felt like a lot of detail was put into developing the plot of Wendy’s fake abuse, but as soon as the twist was revealed, it was almost like the ending was put fairly quickly and didn’t have equally as much detail.
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can’t risk losing this job—not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe…
It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.
It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything…
That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe.
Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go…
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Tropes:
- Rich Family
- Housemaid
- Secrets
The Housemaid’s Secret is the second book in The Housemaid Series by author Freida McFadden. I was first introduced to Freida’s books through Tik Tok, which ultimately led me to read the first book in the series – The Housemaid.
I enjoyed reading the first book in the series and was surprised at where the storyline lead to – it was something I didn’t anticipate happening. I like my psychological thrillers to be heart racing, shocking and anxiety inducing, which I didn’t find The Housemaid to be – but equally, I enjoyed it and enough to intrigue me to read the second book in the series and to ultimately follow where Millie’s storyline goes.
The Housemaid’s Secret follows Millie Calloway in life after the Winchesters, where she is working with landscaper and boyfriend, Enzo to help other vulnerable woman in need, to escape their abusive husbands. The pair worked together until Enzo abruptly left to Sicily, to visit his sick mother who had recently suffered a stroke. The sudden absence put a strain on Millie and Enzo’s relationship, which ultimately resulted in their separation. However, Enzo’s departure wasn’t revealed until part way through the book.
The prologue follows a character, assumed to be Millie, in a deadly situation where she is faced with defending herself against an intruder in the dark. During the attack, she trips and slips on something wet – when the moonlight from outside shines through to the floor, she realises she’s slipped on blood; but not her own. The question of whose blood is then presented, before we are met with Millie in present day.
After working to help women escape their abusive husbands, Millie begins working for a lady where she cleans and looks after her child. However, this job is cut short when the baby Millie has been babysitting begins calling her mama in front of her actual mam, resulting in her being fired. Subsequently after being fired, Millie puts up a job ad that advertises her skills of being a housemaid. This leads her to gain a job from Douglas Garrick, a very successful and rich businessman.
During their meeting, Millie is met with a kind and caring man who worries about his wife and her mental state. It is revealed to Millie that she has been hired to help relieve his wife Wendy of her housewife duties, due to her sudden illness. It is at this point that Douglas explicitly states that Millie is to stay clear of Wendy’s room, due to her needing her rest. However, this only intrigues Millie, where she inserts herself – leaving her in some danger.
Millie begins her role as housemaid for the Garrick’s, but is feeling on edge with the atmosphere inside the house and the feeling that someone is watching her every move. She begins to notice she’s being followed by a black Mazda, which has a smashed headlight and grows anxious and suspicious of who it could be.
As she’s cleaning inside of the Garrick’s penthouse, Millie is discovers signs that Wendy may be being abused by her husband. Millie presents the uneasy feeling she has to boyfriend Brock, who lightly brushes it off and tells her to stay clear – whilst pressuring her into moving in with him. Whilst knowing she must tell boyfriend Brock of her history, Millie stalls from telling him the truth as she’s too caught up in someone else’s life. However, as she continues to work in the Garrick penthouse, Millie uncovers further signs of Wendy’s abuse, which leads her to seek a conversation from a reluctant Wendy.
Whilst working to uncover Wendy’s abuse, Millie feels like she’s being followed home, but it is revealed to be a strange neighbour that leaves her feeling uneasy at his behaviour. During an interaction, the strange neighbour attempts to force himself on Millie, resulting in him being maced and thrown down a flight of stairs. When the police arrive, Millie is treated as the suspect due to her prison record and because a neighbour saw her kicking into him. It is left hanging whether the neighbour will be pressing charges, so she finally accepts to move in with boyfriend Brock, as a way to feel safe. However, this plan is cut short when the creepy neighbour is being arrested for housing drugs. Millie’s relationship with Brock is strained as she continues to avoid the serious conversation that must be had about her history.
Millie discovers that her job advertisement failed to go live, leaving her feeling uneasy and questioning how Douglas was able to find her services. When she approaches Douglas, he reveals that it was in fact Wendy who came across her services after she was recommended by a friend. This is when Millie connects the dots that she was recommended by a previous employer who she helped escape their husband.
After much persuasion, Wendy admits that she is indeed being abused by Douglas and wants help from Millie to escape her powerful husband. Millie sets up a plan to help Wendy, after Wendy seeks shelter from an old friend. Millie is tasked with driving her to a motel, until her friend can collect her. When driving to the motel, Millie spots the black Mazda that has been following her, but is able to loose it.
After safely dropping Wendy off at the motel, Millie returns the hire car, where she yet again spots the black Mazda. This time, the person inside the Mazda reveals themself and it is revealed as Enzo. Following a conversation, Millie sends Enzo away convincing him she doesn’t need a bodyguard.
Just when Millie believes Wendy is safe, she receives a phone call from Wendy telling her that Douglas found her and has brought her back to the penthouse. Millie returns to the penthouse to help Wendy, but it all becomes too much for her, where Wendy shows Millie the gun she plans on killing Douglas with. Millie convinces Wendy not to follow through with her plan and reassures her that she’ll find away to get her away from Douglas.
When Millie sets out doing her housemaid duties around the penthouse, she overhears an argument between Wendy and Douglas that leads to smashing and banging. Believing that Wendy is in serious danger, she finds the gun Wendy intended to use and bursts through the door to save Wendy. When entering, Millie discovers Wendy being choked out by Douglas and demands he lets her go – only Douglas refuses, leaving Millie to shoot the gun.
Wendy checks his pulse and reveals that he is dead. With Millie panicking, Wendy reassures her that she’ll take the blame and that Millie can leave and pretend she was never here. Listening to Wendy, Millie leaves the penthouse and returns home to hide all evidence she was at the penthouse during Douglas’s death.
Millie’s life is turned upside down when the police knock at her door the following morning, where they request her presence down the station. Now realising she must reveal the truth to Brock, she asks for him to be her lawyer where she finally reveals her past to him. Millie attempts to twist the truth to save Wendy, but the evidence is stacked against her – where the detective informs her that Wendy has stated that Millie was the one who shot Douglas and that they were secretly having an affair.
At this point, Brock steps down as her lawyer following her reveal of her prison history and possible new conviction – this leaves Millie baffled at Wendy’s statement and believing that she’ll be returning back to prison. After being temporarily released, Millie is left feeling more confused than ever and seeks the help from the only person she can trust – Enzo. She reveals the whole story to Enzo, but when seeing the news report announcing Douglas’ death, Millie fails to recognise the images being shown that are of Douglas. She tells Enzo that the man in the photos are indeed not the man she killed and begins questioning who was the man she witnessed strangling Wendy and subsequently, pulled the trigger on.
After being left confused, the story transitions to Wendy’s POV where it follows several chapters dated a year before the incident. During these chapters, it is revealed that Wendy only married Douglas for his fortune and had plans to transform him into the man of her dreams. After failing to transform Douglas and Douglas loosing interest in the finer things of life, Wendy meets Russell who she begins having an affair with. After some time, Douglas discovers Wendy’s affair and subsequently freezes her cards, to which Wendy is not happy about. Upon the reveal of Douglas’ actions, Wendy asks for a divorce where she accepts that she’ll only receive $10 million outlined in their prenup. However, Douglas reveals that the section of the prenup is void where Wendy is found of committing adultery and as a result, will receive no money in the event of a divorce. Wendy believes that Douglas has no proof, but he reveals that there are cameras set up in their apartment which show Wendy committing the affair.
Wendy comes to realise she’ll be left with nothing if they divorce, but quickly realises she’ll get Douglas’ entire inheritance in the event where he dies.
This sets Wendy’s plan into motion, where it is revealed that she intentionally hired Millie to take the blame for Douglas’ murder because of her previous history. After learning Millie will do anything for woman being abused, Wendy begins faking her injuries and hires boyfriend Russell to play the role of her husband Douglas. With Douglas never being at the penthouse, it’s the perfect plan to make Millie believe that Russell is Douglas and is therefore abusing Wendy.
As the plan is set into motion, Russell pretends to be Douglas so that Millie can be framed for the real Douglas’ murder. Upon seeing Russell attack Wendy pretending to be Douglas, she fires the gun at Russell – not knowing it’s a blank round, she leaves believing she killed Douglas. After Millie leaves, Wendy uses the gun with Millie’s fingerprints on to kill the real Douglas. Douglas is then lured to the penthouse where he believes that Wendy is going to sign the divorce papers, but in actual fact, he’s going to be killed by Russell. However, Russell’s unable to go through with pulling the trigger, so Wendy does it for him with the gun covered with Millie’s fingerprints.
This is all because Wendy didn’t want to receive nothing in the divorce, so she hatched a plan for Douglas to die – where she believed she’d receive his full inheritance as a result of his death.
After the twist is revealed, the story transitions back to present day in Millie’s POV, where she and Enzo are attempting to make sense of Douglas’ death and who the person is that she pulled the trigger on.
Believing they got away with Douglas’ murder, Wendy and Russell take a trip to a cabin owned by Russell and his wife where they celebrate the new life they’ll be embarking on. Wendy receives a phone call from the detective, where she hopes he’ll reveal Millie’s imprisonment. The detective informs Wendy of the cameras Douglas had hidden in the back entrances prior to his death, which reveal that Millie’s framed of being the murder doesn’t line up with the timeline in the videos. Whilst on the phone, Wendy hears splashing and sounds of a struggle from the bathroom, which she believes to be Russell being too drunk. Wendy hangs up the phone when the detective asks of her whereabouts, as she is now the prime suspect in her husbands murder. When returning back to the bathroom, she discovers Russell in a pool of his blood and rushes to the kitchen, after suspecting someone had snuck into the cabin – that someone being Millie.
Wendy begins pleading with Millie in the dark as she attempts to run from her, when she feels a presence behind her – only it’s revealed as Russell’s wife. Russell’s wife demands answers and forces Wendy to write a confession letter for Dougla’s death. Wendy follows through with this believing she’ll be let go, only Russell’s wife reveals that she has overdosed Wendy on Douglas’ heart medication, leaving Wendy to die a slow and painful death.
Everything Millie was lead to believe about Douglas and Wendy’s marriage was a fabricated lie, set up by Wendy to make Millie believe she was being abused, so that Millie would be framed for Douglas’ murder and that Wendy would receive his inheritance.
The story ends with Millie being cleared of being a suspect of Douglas’ murder, as Wendy’s letter is found. Millie is seen to be continuing her relationship with Enzo and having a friend on the police force, who are aware of her help towards woman being abused.
From the two books of Freida’s that I’ve read, Freida sets the prologue as an attention grabbing chapter that intrigues the reader into wanting to know what has happened and the events that have lead the character to where they are at the point of the prologue.
Freida also draws your attention towards the wife in the story and develops their character in a way that makes you remorseful of them, so that you’re not focused on other possibilities of where the story may lead. During The Housemaid, I fully thought Nina was crazy and did not expect it to be the husband. Then for The Housemaid’s Secret, yet again I fully thought Wendy was the victim and did not expect her to be the crazy one.
I really enjoyed reading The Housemaid’s Secret, I was eager to know what happened next – despite being loaded with the flu. I really did not see the twist coming that Wendy was fabricating the abuse storyline, but I suppose it was to be expected at some point with all the woman Millie was helping – someone had to take advantage of that. I just didn’t think it would happen so quickly. Wendy really did intend for Millie to take the fall for Douglas’ murder.
I feel like the wife using Millie as a scapegoat has become a theme in the two books of the series so far, I did anticipate it being a theme in the final book. However, I feel like the theme of the final book will be slightly different to the first two books – going off the synopsis.
As previously mentioned, Freida likes to start her stories off with a prologue that is taking place at the height of the story – at the start of the twist. The prologue starts in the cabin and was set out to make you feel like it’s from Millie’s POV. After reading the prologue, you are left with questions you want answered, which Freida cleverly answers during the reveal.
I felt like Douglas’ actions were completely warranted and fair, why should he house and pay for someone whose been using his money and having an affair. That is not abuse in the slightest.
I can certainly say I didn’t see the twist coming, or the additional twist of Russell’s wife being the one to seek revenge. I did enjoy the book – however, I do feel like the end was slightly rushed. It wasn’t revealed to readers that Millie was informed of the plot, but that could be because she put it together herself and because the readers had already read through it, so therefore did not need to read through it again as it’s being revealed to Millie. As for the rushed ending, I felt like a lot of detail was put into developing the plot of Wendy’s fake abuse, but as soon as the twist was revealed, it was almost like the ending was put fairly quickly and didn’t have equally as much detail.
Overall, I enjoyed this book and would definitely read more by Freida McFadden. I think her books are easy to follow and I’m looking forward to reading a book of hers that will be my favourite, or that will be as suspenseful as Verity. I would love to see The Housemaid series become a Tv series adaptation. It would be interesting to see how the storyline unfolds on screen.
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Georgia
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