The Housemaid’s Secret (The Housemaid #2)
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Main characters
- Millie Calloway – Now working as a housemaid again while hiding her past.
- Wendy Garrick – A wealthy woman who appears sick and confined to her room.
- Douglas Garrick – Wendy’s cold and controlling husband.
- Brock Cunningham – Millie’s boyfriend who’s sole purpose in life is to ask Millie to move in with him.
Years later after the first book, Millie now lives in a shady locality in Bronx and constantly looking over her shoulder. A guy in her apartment building tries to harass her and the police takes his side because apparently Millie’s prison record supercedes her fair stance in life?
And then, there’s a stalker she notices everywhere she goes.
And then, there’s Brock who keeps asking Millie to move in with him.
Amidst all this, Millie takes another job—this time for the Garrick family in Manhattan. Wendy Garrick never leaves her room, and Douglas insists she is ill. The situation reminds Millie of Nina’s marriage. Millie becomes convinced that Wendy may actually be a victim trapped by her husband.
Old characters pop-up, new ones show their true colours soon, and then there’s a twist that I hadn’t seen coming.
Review
I picked Frieda McFadden’s “The Housemaid Secret” because of a Goodreads challenge, because I’m crazy that way. If there’s a challenge, I’m up for it. Even though the book was a bit longer for my liking, I thought, hey, it will give me a badge on Goodreads, so why not?
But when I started the book, it hooked me, really hooked me. I finished it in four days, realized it’s the second book, downloaded the first one and finished in one day.
I’m super hooked. Things I notice is the dry sense of humour and recalled jokes, I have highlighted examples of these, to be shared in later part of this post.
Just Lines I Found Funny
3%
Nothing is hurting. I’m still intact. That means the blood isn’t mine.
Shabana Mukhtar: Love the deduction.
5%
“This is so unfair!” Amber cries. “I breastfed her for over a week! Isn’t that worth anything?”
6%
the man with the scar above his left eyebrow
10%
The master bedroom is so large that I need a pair of binoculars to see the king-size bed at the other end of the room.
11%
“This,” he says, “is the bystander effect. It’s a social psychology phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.”
11%
Teeth can’t naturally be that white—it’s inhuman.
12%
As excited as I am about this job, something about that makes me uneasy.
13%
“Come on,” he says. “Let’s go get some sushi.” At some point, I probably also need to tell him that I don’t like sushi.
17%
Brock is perfect, and his family is perfect, and I am so far from perfect, it’s not even funny.
20%
Or I’m going crazy. That’s a possibility too.
26%
Whatever Douglas Garrick is up to in that apartment building, I’m not going to figure it out from standing here and staring at the building.
28%
This is the best show I’ve seen in months.
43%
“I know a guy.”
50%
It’s a Mets T-shirt.
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“You hiding drugs up there?” “No! Definitely not!” I just murdered somebody, that’s all. Sheesh.
92%
Marybeth is furious with me—I slept with her husband and I killed her beloved boss. But that doesn’t mean I deserve to die here, at her hands.
94%
“Of course. I have a prison record, so if a crime is committed, I must be the one who did it.”
Recalled Jokes
7%
I’m sure Brock has bad habits, but I don’t know what they are. Maybe he cleans the earwax out of his ear canal with his finger and then wipes it on the kitchen counter or the sofa. Or maybe he eats the earwax.8%
Even if he really is eating his own earwax, my secrets are much worse.
27%
kicks me to the curb.27%
kick me to the aforementioned curb.
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