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The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden

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Purchase The Housemaid #2 Rating: 3.5/5 Spice: 0 Primary Genre: Thriller Trigger Warnings: Sizeism and body-shaming, Classism, Attempted rape, Infidelity (on-page), Discussions of domestic abuse and violence, Disordered eating & food thoughts including calorie counting and food shaming, Suicidal ideation, Alcohol consumption, Infertility mentioned, Blood depiction, Emesis, Death of a mother from a stroke mentioned, Murder by gun & knife violence, Physical assault, Stalking, Incarceration for physical assault mentioned, Poverty & financial difficulties discussed Favorite Quote: “You hiding drugs up there?” “No! Definitely not!” I just murdered somebody, that’s all. Sheesh. Plot 3/5: Millie is back, still doing her whole maid vigilante thing. And still trying to work around that prison record. She’s trying to work her way through college now. She gets a job working for the very wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Garrick and while it pays well, the vibes are very off. Mrs. Garrick never l...

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

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Purchase The Housemaid #1 My Rating: 5/5 Stars 🌶: 0/5 Primary Genre: Thriller Blurb:  Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2022) 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 Wincheste...