The Tenant - 368 pages
Freida McFadden
Summary (From Goodreads)
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…
Review
This was my first time reading a book by this author. From what I understand, choosing to focus on a male perspective in this book is outside the norm for her, and I think it served well to establish Blake as an unreliable narrator. However, I'm not a big fan of the epilogue; I don't think it added much - if anything - to the story. Given how it was executed, it felt more like an interesting idea than a twist that would actually provide the reader with an explanation or closure.
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