Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

415 reviews

readfeelandcherish's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Blood

besidemyshelf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

vbarker91's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Stalking

abbiey34's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Great book, but very predictable in my opinion. I unfortunately read the book Verity by Colleen Hoover first. I kinda wish I would’ve read them in the other order, as I feel Verity was perfect, and The Housemaid was disappointing. It’s a slowish read throughout, and only by the end does it get going.

The twists and turns were predictable from the beginning, and had the cliché of “you think it’s Nina that’s the bad guy, but of course, it was her husband Andrew all along.”

 

The ending was pretty poor in my opinion. Turned into a Maid Husband Killer, which made me laugh out of embarrassment for the author decision. I personally don’t understand the hype. The torture scenes where really uncalled for too. Pretty specific and random torture scenes, and again became laughable at times with how weird it was. 

I wouldn’t recommend reading this if you have read Verity as there are a lot of similarities that are just too annoying. I would love to know who wrote what first! But, if you haven’t read Verity, then I would read The Housemaid first, and then dive into Verity! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

sing1133's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

deedee_'s review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

It’s not a bad book. Just not my cup of tea for several reasons. I got a little bored mid way and struggled to find my way back. The twists were kind of predictable to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness

Could be very triggering for certain people.

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

addie_09's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

mrspeacockwiththecandlestick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Millie is hired as a made for the Winchester family. Nina Winchester seems warm and kind, the job also seems too good to be true for the young woman out on parole from prison. As Millie moves into the Winchester house and begins her new position, she quickly discovers that her new employer is very hard to work with but the husband is easy on the eyes. 

Whoa…. This book…. Oof!!!! There were so many twists and turns around every corner that I often felt as if I was getting whiplash. McFadden is very talented. I gave this a 3 star rating only because the content at times had me anxious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

erinsbooknook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Well this book was a wild ride. I have never cussed so much while reading a book. The amount of times I said WTF was astounding. I do recommend this book as a thriller. None of the main characters were all that likeable, except Enzo, but it made a pretty good story and I couldn’t put it down. The twist was a slow burn, which was cool. I read 110 pages in one day and almost 100 on another day, that is rare for me as a slow reader. Pick this one up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail