The Maid’s Diary

Loreth Anne White

Book Review

“She cleans. She snoops. She disappears.”

“Men don’t change, do they? They just learn. They evolve. Adapt. They figure out how to be more careful, and how not to get caught next time around.”

I learned a lot from this thriller novel. One of them was to not take everything personally, because when a ‘poor’ country was mentioned, the author was not thinking about me when she wrote it. She doesn’t even know I existed. LOL! But I was just wondering, why did she mention that particular country instead of another with a worse economic situation? Just wonderin’. Oh well!

This was unputdownable! Speculations and wild hunch from a seasoned thriller reader are inevitable in the course of reading it, but at least they did not come forthwith.

I love the maid. She was fleshed out just right. Her past was thoroughly presented but still kept a fraction of the mystery in her. I loved other characters like the photographer, the unreliable/snooper witness, the other pregnant friend, the forgivable best friend, and the detective.

The characters you will surely loathe are the wealthy wife, the Olympian, and the MIL.

The ending was satisfying. I am a fan of endings like this novel has. The roller coaster of emotions this has given me was close to Robyn Harding’s The Drowning Woman.

I will surely read more of Loreth Anne White. She definitely managed to quench my thirst for a gripping thriller.

Trigger Warnings:
- the R word
- gang R word
- emotional and physical ab*se
- deception