Reviews with content warning for Police brutality - The Inmate

I keep reading these McFadden books, but she tends to make her female characters kind of, as Junie B. Jones would put it, dumb bunnies. Almost like they can't hold two thoughts in their heads at one time. Like this gal could only focus all of her energy on one line of thinking and not consider anything else going on around her. The story was fine. The premise didn't seem incredibly realistic, but at least in this book, incarcerated people weren't treated as much of monsters as the mentally ill people were in her other book. McFadden is always going to give you a twist at the end

but I didn't find this one terribly satisfying. Maybe have read too many of her books?

It was fine!

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amateur_bookworm's review against another edition

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mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This is my first Freida McFadden book and I can see why her books are so well loved. I was pulled into the story right off the bat. It felt like easy reading and the pages just flew right by. I literally read this in less than 24 hours.

It honestly felt like it was too simple—I felt like I had it all figured out at a couple of points pretty early on in the book. But, nope, I did not see the twists coming. Like, at all. It ultimately blew my mind a bit and, even now, I’m still trying to wrap my head around all of it.

I’ve been wanting to read a Freida McFadden book for quite awhile now so I swooped this up out of a Little Free Library (despite some water damage on it) as soon as I saw it. I am so glad I picked this up and I will definitely be reading more Freida. I think her books are the perfect palate cleanser for when I’ve binged too many romance books.

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juliaarcisz's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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sweetteaandfiction's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I didn’t see the twist in this one, and it had me screaming. There isn’t much I can praise or criticize without giving stuff away.

I can say this ended up being a five star read for me DESPITE the FMC. She is almost willfully naive.

Frieda McFadden has me hooked.

❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ out of five sociopaths with oedipus complexes

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kiwichill's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An excellent thriller, well paced, lots of twists that weren't predictable or unbelievable, and an excellent ending

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maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is another good one by Freida McFadden, with lots of twists.

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