Author: Freida McFadden
Year published: 2025
Category: Adult fiction (thriller)
Pages: 368 pages
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Location: (my 2025 Google Reading map): USA (NY)
Summary: There's no place like home…
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet.
Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?
Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...
Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.
Review: How can I review this book without giving away the plot and its twists?!
I've only read one previous books by McFadden and enjoyed it very much (links to my review: The Housemaid). I read this one in one day; it was so gripping. I vacillated between liking and disliking each of the three main characters throughout the book. McFadden deftly pulls the reader into the story and gives us feelings about the characters, then slowly reveals bits and pieces about them to make you like, dislike, like again. Trust, not trust, and trust again. What a ride.
The story pulled me in immediately. Who hasn't needed a roommate, hated the process of finding one, then had it not turned out the way you hoped? I think that's one of the reasons that this book works so well, it takes a concept that many of us are familiar with, and turns it on its head.
I can't really say much more without giving the plot away, so if you're in the mood for a really good thriller, run, don't walk to get a copy of this book.
Challenges for which this counts:
- Cover Love--a spooky scene
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