The Teacher – Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a chilling story of twisted secrets and long-awaited revenge.

Lesson #1: Trust no one.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

This is I think fifth book I am reading from Freida McFadden. And I think I like this book but again not as much as the Housemaid’s Secret.

The story follows a teacher named Eve and a student named Addie. Eve is a math teacher at the high school where Addie is attending. To many Eve is happily married to Nathan Bennett but inside, Eve has a shoe fetish fever where she tries to buy expensive branded shoes and seemed to be having an affair with someone named Jay who is working at the shoe store. Addie meanwhile has been rumored to be having an affair with her former teacher who was fired from the school. She was being bullied because of that. However, Addie enrolls into Mr. Bennett’s class and she soon gets closer to Mr. Bennett.

But Addie has deep secrets of her own too.

The story is told in Eve’s and Addie’s POV. Overall it was fast paced and entertaining read but the biggest twist you will find is towards the middle of the book. The book is also quiet a page turner (most of the time Freida’s books are page turners) and I was literally hooked into the book. Both the characters are unreliable and untrustworthy–who can be trusted? The ending of the story was what blew me away–it was really an unexpected twist.

I make it a point of buying all Freida’s books and I wasn’t disappointed with it. Worth four stars.