The Tenant – Book Review

There’s no place like home…

Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet.

Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she?

Because something isn’t quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets…

Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it’ll be far too late. The trap is already set.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour…

This is Freida McFadden’s latest book–The Tenant follows the story of Blake Porter, who had it all at first–a VP of a company and having all the money. But then Blake was fired after an incident causing him to look for a job that pays lower. Blake and his fiancee, Krista decided to rent a part of their house to someone. And in comes Whitney Cross and Krista and Blake decided to take Whitney in as their tenant. But as soon as Whitney moves in, things started going bad for Blake–from eating all his cereal to using all his shampoo and soap, Blake decides that Whitney is not who seemed to be…

One thing about Freida McFadden books is, the pacing–the pacing in all her books, including this one is fast paced. It’s like you don’t really want to put the book down and you really want to know what is going to happen in the end. And one of the rare things I have noticed in this book is, the main protagonist in this story is a male protagonists when normally, all Freida’s protagonists are females, which was rare. Of course, initially, it looked as if Blake’s life is going from bad to worse, him not getting along with every one, including his old neighbor. The story actually started in the middle with the murder of the neighbor.

I also liked the twists and turns in the book and the complete unexpected ending and twist. It was like a WTH moment when reading the book. However, I think this wasn’t really great but it wasn’t really bad either. It was a good thriller. Overall I rate this book as four stars.