Im stated that in regards to the birthday party scene, "I wanted audiences to wonder if [Nami] could truly heal from such an event?" [3] He added that a producer of the film had unsuccessfully requested its deletion and that "There has been a lot of controversy surrounding that last scene", but that the film "would have been just so-so" if the final scene was deleted. [3] People often describe books as “unputdownable” and I rarely use this term as my ADD means I can easily drop an activity and go and do other things. However, The Housemaid is one of those books where I genuinely wanted to read as much of it as possible in one sitting each time I could. And again, I usually struggle to read when anything else is going on but it’s easy writing and my desire to know what was coming next had me engrossed. The Housmaid characters – 4.25/5 Mmmmmm yeah, no. This was not good. I did not enjoy it at all, and I recommend it to nobody. Okay that’s the review, bye!!!!! Anyway, the two of them hatch a plan to save Wendy. Blah blah some stuff happens and Millie shoots Douglas and he’s dead. If this is the part of the job where i find out cecelia has actually been dead for ten years and is a ghost, i’m quitting.

Byeong-sik, aka "Miss Cho" (the other live-in maid, originally Hae-ra's childhood maid) witnesses Eun-yi and Hoon having sex. She tries to subtly pry details from Eun-yi, but Eun-yi brushes her off casually. Later, Miss Cho reveals her suspicion that Eun-yi is pregnant to Hae-ra's mother, Mi-hee. Mi-hee then visits the family and stages an "accident," resulting in Eun-yi falling from a ladder positioned at the top of a set of stairs. Dangling from a chandelier, Eun-yi begs Mi-hee to pull her over the railing. She does not oblige, and Eun-yi falls. Suffering only a concussion, Eun-yi spends the night in the hospital. During her stay, she learns that she is pregnant and contemplates abortion. Meanwhile, the affair is revealed to Hae-ra. Nina has no agency at all, she's only good to be rescued by her super-hot, muscled, Italian stud, and even Millie shows no initiative at all up until the very ending. The Housemaid” by Freida McFadden is just one of those novels that for years to come, I will speak highly of and recommend to anyone that wants an incredible thriller. One that’s also filled with mystery and psychological terror all wrapped together brilliantly. From McFadden’s excellent writing style to all the characters I absolutely loved, this is easily one of the best novels of 2022.Kim Ki-young's film is an expressionist study of desire, exploitation and cruelty. At some point in the movie, each character (even the children!) shows an evil, violent side. Martin Scorsese praised the film's “ability to see danger in all of the human interactions”, and “The Housemaid” is indeed great at doing so. It's nihilistic and grim outlook on interpersonal and parasitic relationships, filled with pessimistic overtones and claustrophobic visual style, contributes to the horror and suffering that Kim family bring upon themselves. It is also a complex depiction of simultaneously frail and vain masculinity, as well as almost carnivorous femininity. The visual motifs of spinning (squirrel in a cage, yarn in a sewing machine, wheels in a train), as well as moving upwards and downwards the staircase are essentially exhibiting a simple notion, that the characters are trapped, and as they spend more time within the four walls of their home, their suffering will grow exponentially. There are some interesting twists along the way. Though any regular thriller reader would be easily able to spot most of those, they were still penned in a way that I enjoyed them. Someone has ended up dead in the prologue of the novel. Is it one of these three? Or was one of them the murderer? What happened in the Winchester household after the new maid was appointed? cecelia is standing behind me, her pale blue eyes boring into me, wearing a white frilly dress that makes her look like a little doll. and by doll, i’m of course talking about that creepy talking doll in the twilight zone that murders people.

And what about the "translating apps" that Millie mentions in the very beginning of the book, hoping that they'll help her communicate with Enzo, except then she never uses them, never mentions them again and spends the rest of the novel complaining that she has no way of communicating with Enzo? That no-one else talks of her in these terms may seem a little strange, that they dismiss her 'quirks' as just part of her being odd, a running joke as it were, but then this is reflective of life, is it not. Those who still dismiss an autistic child as being 'a bit naughty' and 'in need of discipline' when, in truth, there are parts of their character over which they have no control. There are characters in the book who are far more sympathetic to Molly's unique perspective on life, and is is so unlikely that they wouldn't talk of Molly in specific clinical terms if her own Grandmother had chosen not to seek a diagnosis, and Molly herself doesn't view life in this way? I don't know. Like I say, I'm no expert but I guess that is that label I personally ascribed to Molly, perhaps as a way for my own understanding of her personality traits and why many things which any other person have viewed as a touch suspicious, Molly just accepted as being perfectly normal. And in a hotel such as the Regency Grand, where one of the key clients is murdered and a few other nefarious goings on happen after hours, perfectly normal is pretty much anything but. In a Nutshell: A bit farfetched but it still provided me with almost everything I look for in a thriller. Though he might be relegated to more of a secondary role with no chapters dedicated to him, Andrew Winchester still remains an integral piece of the puzzle, and his presence in the story is often used to maximum effect. As a matter of fact, I’d say he too is a main character, adding another layer of complexity to the dynamics between the inhabitants of the house. Who doesn’t love an unreliable narrator, especially one who’s a little bit on the spectrum, speaks like they’ve stepped out of a 1930 Agatha Christie novel and happens to be a maid in a very posh hotel?It is at this point that, sadly, the book begins to disappoint. There is a sequence of events which I found difficult to follow, and which required Molly to act a part which I would not have thought she was capable of playing, but which resulted in Rodney being arrested and charged with the murder, and the charges against Molly being withdrawn.

Stark, a woman detective has been called and wants Molly to accompany her to the police station to take a statement of what she had seen. There again Molly over-explained everything she had noticed during her duties that day, but suppressed some things that she feels might incriminate Giselle, who had always been friendly towards her and had even told her that she suffered from her husband’s tyranny. Each of the character introduced seems like they have a big mystery hidden with them. Everything makes the reading quite fun and interesting. It makes you feel like a big reveal is going to happen anytime and you cannot afford to miss any of it. She gets disturbing mail threats depicting her dead. And more disturbing mails which depict threats to the rest of the Bertie family. And things about the family has so many secrets to uncover. The house just haunts it seems. The Bertie family members are quite interesting but quite bizarre. welcome to my spoiler free review🤭this was my first freida book and it has me feeling like i need to take a trip to the nearest psych ward. i finished this book in SIX hours. more like four because i spent two of those hours spam texting shei throughout the entire book🙈she pulled an all-nighter for me🥹🫂please go into my review with very low expectations because since it’s spoiler free…i won’t be able to say a lot🥺If you know your domestic thrillers, you'll know that the above character analysis will change over the course of the novel. The characters were unbelievable at times. In spite of this, I enjoyed their idiosyncrasies. A thriller can’t be twisty without characters who generate mixed feelings in you. It’s boring to have thrillers with clearly delineated good or bad characters. The characters in this book will test your loyalties towards them. Corliss, Richard (29 April 2014). "A Woman Scorned: The Top 12 Female Revenge Movies". Time . Retrieved 21 May 2016.