Hey Dearies!
Yes, I FINALLY got to the second Housemaid’s book. Since I’m on maternity leave, I’ve been trying to catch up with books that I’ve started and haven’t had the chance to finish, or that have been on my to-read list that I’ve been trying to finish.
I did end up reading the first one a while back, and don’t get me wrong, it was good, but I needed a break from the back-to-back thrillers and ended up taking a break from starting the second one. So, it was one of the books I just have sitting in my Kindle Unlimited borrowed, and I did start it, but never got around to finishing it until now.
You might get a kick outta this, but I ended up finishing it between nursing my son at night since it killed some time while he ate.
Note: spoiler alert is in place for both The Housemaid and The Housemaid’s Secret. Although I’m going to try my best not to spoil The Housemaid’s Secret too much for you all!
Anyway, just like the first one, Millie is back, and she is pretty much doing what she was doing in the first place, being a housemaid for rich families, although she loses her most current job because the woman fires her after hearing her daughter call Millie “mom”.
I do understand why that woman did what she did, but it also proves that she wasn’t spending enough time with her daughter. Which sucks for Millie since she needed this job in order to keep her apartment.
Millie also started to see someone since the last book, Brock, who cares very deeply for her, but she has a hard time returning the feelings. She also hasn’t told him about her past since she was in jail for murder.
Before Brock, she actually ended up getting with Enzo, with whom she would work together to help housewives leave their abusive husbands. Millie seems more in love with Enzo than she does with Brock, but she’s only with Brock to fill the hole that Enzo left when he went back to see his dying mother in Italy.
When she loses her job, she ends up finding another one for this guy, Douglas, who is looking for a housemaid and makes it clear that he is only hiring a housemaid because his wife isn’t feeling well enough to cook and clean their apartment herself.
Of course, Douglas tells her to leave his wife alone in her room and to not bother her, which makes Millie more curious about why his wife is in there. She ends up meeting his wife, Wendy, and sees that Wendy has been through her fair share of abuse from her husband.
Like Millie does in the last book, she wants to help Wendy and get her out of this situation. Little does Millie know that Wendy hired her on purpose since word gets around that she helped another woman get out of an abusive marriage.
As you can guess, the book does split into parts; first it’s Millie, and then it’s Wendy, back to Millie. Sort of like how it was split; the first book was going back and forth between Millie and Nina. I figured it was going to be sort of like that ending where both Nina and Millie worked together.
Boy, was I wrong and what a crazy twist!
Wendy wants her husband dead because she only married him for his money and stayed as long as she did until she ended up falling in love with someone else. However, if she were to divorce him, she wouldn’t be able to since she signed a prenup.
She thought that she would be able to get divorced and run off with her lover with her ex-husband’s money. The only way she’d be able to get all that and get away with it is if something were to happen to her husband while she was still married.
Which is where she brought Millie in. She needed to get Millie thinking that her husband is so abusive to her that she ends up killing him for her, so that Wendy would get what she wanted and still be super rich with her lover, Russell.
Oh, to top the cherry on top of the cake, Russell is married to a woman named Marybeth, who also happens to work for Douglas’ company as the receptionist. Which sounds so messy, but that’s who Wendy happened to “fall in love with”, instead of being loyal to her husband.
Without ruining the ending, let’s just say that Freida does it again and twists it into something you’d never expect it to be. This made reading it much more enjoyable once you get past the first few chapters.
Overall, I liked this book about the same amount as I did with the first one, maybe slightly better than the first. I’m debating reading the short story and the third one, but we shall see what else I need to get caught up in before my return back to work.
What did you think of the twist at the end? Also, is it just me, or do you get excited for when Freida releases a new book? The Witch just came out, and my friend told me it’s really good, and it’s on Kindle Unlimited, so I might just say screw it and end up reading it next.
