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…
Genre: thriller
Publication date: April 2022
Mature content: yes
Review: I finally caved in and decided to see for myself what all the hype around these books was about. And I have to be honest - I didn't like it in any way. The characters are all despicable, the plot has huge flaws and the end makes zero sense.
Two stars because I did like the general idea of the story, but I don't think I want to read the other two books in the series any time soon (or ever).
(spoilers below, don't read if you still have any hopes of going through this book)
The housemaid is a psychopath that sleeps with the boss because (1) he is handsome and (2) she's sorry for him because he has to endure a crazy wife. This, of course, after trying to sleep with the gardener.
The wife acts like she's crazy as part of a seven year plan to kill her husband and, in the meantime, she does sleep with the gardener.
The daughter sounds just like her crazy mother in the first part of the book and then like a perfectly normal child towards the end. We never really know if she was in on her mother's plan or not (I would say that a child her age would not be able to act so well, so it would be a no, but then that doesn't explain the way she behaves in the beginning of the book).
The gardener doesn't speak English, but has been working in the neighborhood for years. How would people explain what they want from him if he doesn't understand? In the end, he does speak perfect English, just pretended he didn't because he didn't want people (women, especially, since he's also so handsome) bothering him.
The husband is just a psychopath.
And in the end, despite the way the psychopath husband dies, there is no official investigation because the daughter of the detective investigating the crime had been a previous fiancee of such psychopath husband (and apparently was traumatized in the process) and the detective has enough friends everywhere to rule the murder was an accidental death...Sorry, but this really makes zero sense.
So, unfortunately, and despite all the raving reviews everywhere, this is a book I can't bring myself to recommend.
Happy readings otherwise!
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