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A review by bethreadsandnaps
The Sublet by Greer Hendricks
2.25
2.5 stars
This was a free short story as part of the Amazon First Reads for March 2025. I had read the author’s other novels, it had an attractive cover, and it would be quick between other novels.
The premise was okay. A ghostwriter who needs an extra bedroom for her growing boy/girl twins is offered a sublet in NYC via the client she’s ghostwriting for. I thought a family who needed another bedroom would actively seek out the going rate and look at other options before deciding on this one. But I let that slide.
Once they move in, the cat freaks out. And she meets a neighbor who said the previous tenant died in the bathtub. That’s the extent of the creepiness. No creepiness.
And then the main character figured out what’s going on off the page and confronts the owner. And poisons her.
The end. Poorly executed.
This was a free short story as part of the Amazon First Reads for March 2025. I had read the author’s other novels, it had an attractive cover, and it would be quick between other novels.
The premise was okay. A ghostwriter who needs an extra bedroom for her growing boy/girl twins is offered a sublet in NYC via the client she’s ghostwriting for. I thought a family who needed another bedroom would actively seek out the going rate and look at other options before deciding on this one. But I let that slide.
Once they move in, the cat freaks out. And she meets a neighbor who said the previous tenant died in the bathtub. That’s the extent of the creepiness. No creepiness.
And then the main character figured out what’s going on off the page and confronts the owner. And poisons her.
The end. Poorly executed.