Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

A Inquilina by Freida McFadden

63 reviews

cemeterybloom's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity, Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

ginat2's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood

laheath's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Great twists!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Murder

Minor: Toxic relationship

jenver's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Stalking

swimmer120x's review against another edition

3.75

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I would have rated this book 4.0 stars had the middle not been drawn out as much. The ending was not predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting

rach267's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Alcohol, Classism

averyrellreads's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Too many gross things for the sake of being gross and shocking. 
Lots of twists in typical Freida fashion. Once I got past the occasional cringey descriptions, I enjoyed it. Not my favorite Freida book, but the audio was pretty good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting

Maggots, bugs, hair in food, choking

grumpyreading's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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🐠 The Tenant by Freida McFadden 🐠 

MY RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Blake Porter’s life unravels after he’s abruptly fired and can’t afford his new brownstone. Desperate, he and his girlfriend, Krista, rent a room to Whitney—charming, beautiful, and seemingly perfect.

But soon, strange smells, eerie noises, and unsettling neighbors hint that something’s wrong.

By the time he realizes the danger is inside his own home, it’s already too late.

While I enjoyed reading this, I don’t think it was great. It was a quick and fast paced read with lots of plot twists, but I found them to be quite predictable. The characters also all sucked. There were so many ways this book could have ended that I felt would have been stronger, but overall, it was enjoyable to read. Also - Justice for Goldie!!! 

Read this if you like: 

• roommate thriller
• plot twists
• unhinged characters 

Vibes: 🐠🔪🧴🚿🥣💼📝

Song that matches the vibe: the “Don’t Be Suspicious” sound from TikTok 

Full review including content warnings on my StoryGraph. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I guessed what was going on from the beginning, but I still finished this in one night so what does that say about me? Lol. Also, in this economy does stuff like this really matter? “The first day at the temp job goes as well as it possibly could. I mean, considering my job is basically to do filing and data entry for people who are five years younger than me.” (70) Maybe I’m biased because I’m unemployed but an income is an income my man, like who cares???? Maybe Frieda is trying to illustrate how prideful and egotistical cis men are in our society but booohooooo, I didn’t feel sorry for him that he was able to find another job and pay his bills lol. Plus five years younger than you? That’s barely a difference.

So there’s just a bunch of little things with the way that Frieda writes (like the above) that bug me, but overall, I found this story predictable, derivative (even of like, her other work too. Fine, plagiarize yourself but sheesh!). I imagine Blake sitting around with his future buddies saying, “women, amirite?” 🥲 Women are *allowed* to be the villains, but in today’s red-pill-filled-zeitgeist, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the idea of the scorned woman over infidelity. Sure, it CAN be devastating but omfg, women today are tiiiiiiiiiired. I also think painting people as psychopaths or sociopaths is just so overdone in thrillers idk!!!!

Anyway, who cares because I clearly keep reading Frieda’s books hahahahahahahahaha

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

lianathereader's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Alcohol