It's book club selection day! Yippee!! It's time for another batch of books to read together! We have another round of voting completed and we have another batch of great books to read together. The book for August 2024 is The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. Feel free to read our book club books in any order that you choose and when you've finished reading, come back here and tell us what you think. Please label spoilers. We have a new trick for hiding spoilers. Type whatever you want and then highlight the spoiler portion and click the + button above and select Spoiler. If that doesn't work (seems to be funky on Macs) just highlight your text and change the color to white >>>This is a super secret spoiler alert!<<< like I did right there. Spoiler I already read this book and LOVED it! Just a note, anyone is welcome to join in with our book club reading at any time and join in the discussion! The more the merrier! Happy reading!
Oooh I'm excited. I never get to participate here, but I just finished this one today!! So good!! I devoured it...I think I finished it in 2-3 days. I'll be back to discuss more
I read this one awhile ago. Loved it! Fast paced, kept me interested right up until the end. I haven't read the sequels yet but I plan to. I did read another book from this author that I liked called Do You Remember? about a woman who wakes up every day, doesn't recognize her husband thinks its 10 years earlier. She's told she had a brain injury from a car accident (is that really what happened?) Anyway, this book: Spoiler: my spoilers I started thinking OMG the wife Nina is nuts! Why is the husband even with her? Millie is trying so hard. All the weirdness with the door lock. Did Millie tell us why she had been in jail. Oh this comes later - murder! Then Nina slowly reveals herself and the issues she's been dealing handling with Andrew all of these years. Wow!
Lol Laura... I completely forgot to come back with my thoughts too. Sheesh! I really enjoyed this one too! It was so twisty! Spoiler I was definitely led right along the path the author laid out for me! I of course thought Nina was nuts at the beginning too and that Andrew was a patient saint for still loving her and taking care of her. Wow was I wrong! I cannot believe that he made her believe that she had tried to drown her own daughter. What a whacko psychopath! Nina was smart to hire Millie with her criminal past because that's the only way she was going to get someone to stay in that job! In the end, they were all pretty much awful people though! When I first finished, I was routing for Millie, but she was just as bad!! She had a violent side and killed Andrew in the end. THEN... when Andrew's mother was at the funeral was all like "well he should know he needs to take care of his teeth or he loses the privilege to have them" or something like that! I was like... "WHAT?!?" so she was obviously a psycho too and taught Andrew how to behave the way he did. Just wow! The reason I remembered to come back here is because I just borrowed "The Teacher" by this same author to start today. Hope it's as good and twisty!
Me too! Also, A bunch of my friends just read this book and one of them has read the sequels and said they are also really good. I was a bit skeptical about a sequel to this one, because... everything was so wrapped up. Lol. But she said they are worth reading.
I can see why this was her breakout book because it was really entertaining! I’ve read other Frieda McFadden books and often find the character behavior so far fetched that they drive me crazy. This one was still a bit hard to believe but was definitely my favorite of her books I’ve read.
Totally far fetched characters... I completely agree. But even when I was reading it I noted that it was one of those books that you just have to agree to ignore reality and go along for the ride. The one I just started yesterday on audiobook... is such an annoying audiobook. I wish I had the kindle version. Lol.
I read this one right after all the Housemaid books. I read all three of them in about 6 or 7 days and finished The Teacher in a couple of days as well. Ooooh is it twisty! I really enjoyed that each of the Housemaid books had their own "twisty" lol.
I listened to The Teacher and I hated the narration. Lol! It was so overly dramatic and creepy, especially with the one teacher guy and how he talked to his students. It kind of ruined the book for me. Boo! I know I would have enjoyed it a lot more just reading it. I still think I'll pick up the next one in the Housemaid series.
I'm jealous. The narrator said all of his parts really slowly and like flirty/whispery. It was gross. Lol.
This... I was driven crazy by the characters... yeah I'm going to stay here with the lock on the outside. Hmm. Sure! I'm going to ignore my gut over and over and over just to see what happens. UGH. I finished and gave #2 a shot since we had unlimited over the summer and it was free. It was the same issue for me. I didn't connect with the need to suspend belief so repetitively. I want smart characters! They don't have to be likable in every way, but when they recognize something is wrong and ignore it over and over I am frustrated. The author tells you what's coming in some ways by making you have to overlook so many flags. It's like the old commercials for Geico Oh yea... Happy DSD!
This was chosen for one of my book clubs for this past April. For me, it was a rare DNF - did not finish. I did not care for it at all.
