Review: The Housemaid is Watching

The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Quite a difference pacing and time skip from the other two books of the trilogy. Millie is now a proper housewife and mother of two and the threat level of the book did went down. I feel the author have improved her prose from the first book, especially in the first half of the book. It seems more polished and finished now. To me, The Housemaid's Secret was bit of a letter down from the first one, but this book surpasses both of them. Middle book syndrome in action, perhaps.

lso, the book can be read without reading the earlier books as a standalone. While it is indeed the same formaltic thriller as the first two, Millie while being the first person narrator for almost 80% of the book is not really a doer. In style and structure the book is closer to the orginal book.

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