I was on the hunt for a good mystery book, I love thriller stories whether told via book, movie or Tv shows and I will always thoroughly enjoy solid psychological twists when they are well presented.
‘The Housemaid’ is a psychological thriller and its whole purpose is to get its audience to believe some aspect of the story to be true only for it to unravel as a misdirection.
That’s essentially how a well executed psychological piece of art works. It plays tricks on your brain and causes you to doubt your own perception. It successfully blurs the line between reality and illusion.
A famous movie that pulled this off brilliantly according to me was ‘Fractured’ I remember my jaw being on the floor from the genuine confusion and the utter disbelief. The twist was unexpected!
As for the book itself, I’ve mentioned this in my Goodreads review too. I felt gaslit by the storyline. There could have been a better way to introduce the plot twist, one that didn’t completely invalidate the entire first part of the book. It felt like everything I had read up to that point was a lie, with no hints, no foreshadowing to justify the drastic shift. The twist didn’t feel earned because the first part of the story gave no indication that things were about to unravel. Which explains my dissapointment with the book. Solid writing though.
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