The Inmate – Book Review

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison:

1) Treat all prisoners with respect.

2) Never reveal any personal information.

3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.

But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart—the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders.

Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. And he will never forget.

Have you read the Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden? If you haven’t, you should check it out as it took me only 48 hours for me to finish that book! So this book, the Inmate is also written by the same author but I feel this book wasn’t as good as the Housemaid’s Secret.

The good things about this book is, the story divides between the present and the past, a murder that happened eleven years ago when Brooke testified against her boyfriend Shane that puts him into Riker Prison. The “go” was there in the book, meaning it was quiet a page turner. The epilogue part was kind of unexpected.

The bad thing about this book is, this was highly predictable and unrealistic in my opinion. Brooke was one of those stupidest and naive characters I have ever read (who would want to work in a prison where your ex-boyfriend whom you testified against is locked up in that prison???). I feel like you are watching a horror/slasher movie. Someone in the Goodreads review commented on how this book is very similar to the movie Scream and yes, I agree with that comment. If you have watched the movie Scream and then read this book, you will find some similarities between the book and the movie (won’t give further details)

Overall, this book worth 3.5 stars!