The Tenant - Freida McFadden
My Rating: 2/5.
My first Freida McFadden, and I am not very happy about it, picked this one up after reading so many rave reviews on her thrillers/suspense novels. It started very well, kept me gripping for the initial 200 pages of its total length of 350+ pages, but post that, it just goes downhill to a never-ending ending. Blake and Krista are happy go lucky couple, engaged and about to be married, a recent promotion for him send him to the peak of his career (how and why he gets it is amazing), everything is going good till one fine day he gets fired due to none of his fault and life changes upside down for them both and so we think. The cat and mouse chase game starts when they decide to take a tenant for their spare room, so it could help with their mortgage till he goes back to his next job, which takes its own sweet time because of the way he gets fired and all that. The new tenant, as expected, is a gorgeous female who has her agenda, and how she screws their lives was even good to engaging, but the moment the author discloses the real culprit, the downhill journey starts. Although this should be considered a psycho killer who is on a serial killer spree, but looks so stupid by the way all the murders are done and the reasons behind them too. The second half, 150 pages, was a pain and just a drag, since this was my first FMF book, I didn’t want to DNF, hence I ploughed along to a pretty much expected ending, even the last para reveal didn’t even make me smile. The way it starts VS the way the big reveal comes, and the ending is a big letdown.
Do let me know if you have read this one, especially if you liked it. I usually do not give up on an author after just one book, so I will be looking forward to reading at least one more from her. Which one do you recommend that I read?
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