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Overview with Spoilers for The Housemaid is Watching

June 13, 2024

Millie is BACK! My Overview with Spoilers for The Housemaid is Watching will evaluation the e book, and provide protected spoilers for The Housemaid is Watching and the ending defined

Review with Spoilers for The Housemaid is Watching

The Housemaid is Watching: Overview

The Housemaid is Watching: Jen’s Fast Take

Original photo of The Housemaid series books: The Housemaid, The Housemaid's Secret, and The Housemaid is Watching

Although Freida McFadden’s books are typically suspense, this one feels extra like Home Suspense to me
Takes place 17 years after the unique e book, which the creator admits is a little bit of timeline manipulation
It was enjoyable to see Millie and Enzo once more and a few of the crossover characters and Easter eggs have been enjoyable
Follows McFadden’s ordinary system: plot-driven, minimal characters and worldbuilding, and a few large reveals on the finish

The Housemaid is Watching: Jen’s Overview and Evaluation

Books that save all the thrill for the top are by no means my favourite, however when an creator (or a e book) is tremendously standard, I clearly must test it out!

My take? Freida McFadden writes books which might be very readable. They’re streamlined, with only some characters and never a lot description. They’re the right books for audiobook multitasking or only a “fast and enjoyable” learn, as her followers describe them.

The Housemaid is Watching is e book THREE in a collection, so that you would possibly wish to both 1) learn the primary two books, or learn my opinions with spoilers so you’ve an concept of what has gone on earlier than.

Briefly, former housemaid Millie Calloway is now Millie Calloway Accardi, after marrying hunky landscaper Enzo Accardi.
The comfortable couple has been married for eleven years and have two children, daughter Ada and son Nicholas (Nico).
They’ve simply moved into their dream home on Lengthy Island
Within the prologue, somebody has simply discovered a lifeless physique.

If you happen to HAVE learn the primary two books and need a fast refresher:

My Overview of the Housemaid with Spoilers

My Overview of The Housemaid’s Secret With Spoilers

What I Preferred About The Housemaid is Watching

Laid again Enzo and suspicious Millie make a enjoyable mixture.

It was enjoyable to see Millie have to fret about issues like getting her children to the college bus on time.

A personality from The Housemaid AND a personality from The Housemaid’s Secret make appearances on this e book, which I loved.

Issues I Preferred Much less In regards to the Housemaid is Watching

As at all times, the Housemaid books require quite a lot of suspension of disbelief. As you’ll see in the event you learn the e book or the spoilers beneath, there’s an facet of the story that all of us complained about on this e book from final summer time.

As a result of there’s a very restricted variety of characters, there have been only some viable suspects for the homicide that we’re proven within the prologue.

Additionally, as a result of the e book is so streamlined, you understand something out of the peculiar that’s talked about can have one thing to do with the story.

Lastly, the plot consists of quite a lot of misdirection after which two large reveals on the finish, considered one of which is fairly out-there.

Spoilers for the Housemaid’s Secret and the Ending Defined

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First off, the homicide sufferer from the prologue is Jonathan Howell, the neighbor

The one viable suspects in his homicide are Enzo, Howell’s spouse, Suzette, and Millie. However the police by no means appear to think about Suzette in any respect. (Judith might have been a suspect, however she had no motive.)

The primary twist: Ada stabbed Jonathan

Ada, Millie and Enzo’s eleven year-old daughter, stabbed Jonathan Howell after she realized he was locking her brother in his creepy pedophile room below the steps. She goes over to his home to confront him. Then he threatens her and he or she stabs him.

Which solely appears SLIGHTLY extra regular because the Accardi household additionally has a creepy room below the steps. (The Housemaid books are crammed with folks locked in small areas!)

Plus, why wouldn’t she inform her dad and mom? Possibly as a result of…

Ada was given a knife (!!!) by her father as a result of the boys in sixth grade have been asking her on dates. She stabbed Jonathan, then rinsed her shirt and hid his knife. I assume she thought her father meant her to unravel her personal issues with a knife.

Enzo, who was accused of Jonathan’s homicide, confessed after the police discovered the homicide weapon. He knew he’d given Ada the knife and suspected she killed Jonathan. (In a enjoyable cameo, Enzo’s public defender is Cecelia Winchester, the little lady from e book one).

Detective Ramirez (from e book two), who has been serving to Millie and Enzo out, hears by means of the police grapevine {that a} search of the Howell home revealed that Jonathan was answerable for the loss of life of a younger boy who had disappeared from a close-by city.

Ramirez then forces Suzette to admit to Jonathan’s homicide. Her fingerprints have been discovered within the secret room, so she will be charged as an adjunct to Jonathan’s crimes. Ramirez and Millie persuade Suzette that she will say she killed Jonathan when she discovered the room and realized what he’d accomplished.

The second twist: Martha really killed Jonathan

Jonathan was nonetheless alive after Ada stabbed him. However when he was staggering round, bleeding, he caught Martha, the maid, making an attempt to steal his spouse’s jewellery. (A LOT occurring in that home!) He threatened Martha and he or she slashed his throat with a letter opener.

I noticed this one coming as a result of the prologue talked about that Jonathan’s throat was slashed and Ada simply stated she stabbed him within the abdomen. So I knew there could be a second stabbing.

In one other enjoyable reveal, Martha labored for the household of the creepy man that Millie killed all these years in the past. Martha acknowledged Millie and made positive she was in a position to purchase the brand new home, as she hoped Millie might assist her escape her abusive husband (as that’s Millie’s specialty.)

Is that this actually the top of the Housemaid collection?

I ponder. In a brief interview on the finish of the Barnes and Noble model, McFadden says that this e book “places a bow” on the collection. BUT Millie thinks her son Nico is perhaps a psychopath and younger Ada is a mini-me of Millie, so possibly we’ll get a brand new collection with the children…

What do you assume???

My longer abstract of the e book with spoilers is coming quickly! Go away all questions and feedback beneath and I’ll reply all of them. Let’s focus on something, from Janice to the blood stress medicine to Millie’s suspicions about Suzette.