A review by novi
The Maid by Nita Prose

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.0

When Instarted reading this, he news about this going to be made into a movie starring Florence Pugh already spreaded, so when reading the first half of this I was really wondering "how the hell they would make this into a movie?" because the whole book is this neurodivergent character's monologue, that is so integral to the story. The essence is basically we are to understand her. Made into a movie, they better know what they're doing and do the book justice!!! But the latter half of the book was clearly a movie material. The pace picked up (the first half was pretty slow), and it was so so heartwarming, even though it has a lot of cliche elements lol but they're cliches because they work, i guess!

So I don't think this is a cozy mystery,I don't think it's a thriller either. This book is about Molly, our main character, that would make any reader of this book fall  in love with her. The first half of the book was also wasn't as enjoyable as the latter half, because Molly was so mistreated by the people around her, and it was frustrating seeing her so powerless. But there's character growth here, so don't worry.

Another thing, is it just me, or this book for several times made me felt like "oh it's the ending" but then there's another chapter! And it happened several times! Am I just so impatient or...? But I just felt "this point is good enough as the ending" but they managed to reveal yet another thing about the case and situation (which I guess I didn't care as much, and I didn't even realized thy haven't even revealed the real murderer lolll) and we even got the epilogue (which I'm not sure how I feel about it).
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