Blake Porter Is Riding High, Until He's Not. Fired Abruptly From His Job As A Vp Of Marketing And Unable To Make His Mortgage Payments On His New Brownstone, He's Desperate To Make Ends Meet For His Fiancee, Krista. 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 The Kitchen, No Matter How Hard He Scrubs. And Whitney Claims She Knows What He's Done.... Soon It's Obvious That Danger Lives Right At Home. And By The Time Blake Realizes It, It'll Be Far Too Late. He'll Be Dead Before He Realizes The Trap Is Set-- Provided By Publisher.
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Tenant
von Freida McFadden
Blake Porter Is Riding High, Until He's Not. Fired Abruptly From His Job As A Vp Of Marketing And Unable To Make His Mortgage Payments On His New Brownstone, He's Desperate To Make Ends Meet For His Fiancee, Krista. 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 The Kitchen, No Matter How Hard He Scrubs. And Whitney Claims She Knows What He's Done.... Soon It's Obvious That Danger Lives Right At Home. And By The Time Blake Realizes It, It'll Be Far Too Late. He'll Be Dead Before He Realizes The Trap Is Set-- Provided By Publisher.
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Schwacher, lang gezogener Start, Plottwist wieder mal genial. Da man weiss, dass die Plots von McFadden genial sind, übersteht man auch mal einen schwachen Einstieg, finde ich
Am Ende jedes Freida Mc Fadden Buches was ich bis jetzt gelesen habe bin ich verwirrt. Positiv verwirrt. Über den fesselnden Schreibstil, der mich das Buch wieder innerhalb eines Tages hat zuende lesen lassen, müssen wir nicht mehr reden haha. Aaaaaber… Ich fand die Beziehung und die Konversationen zwischen Krista und Blake von Anfang an sehr anstrengend und etwas gekünstelt. Da die beiden ja schließlich den main focus der Geschichte bilden hat sich dieses Gefühl durch das komplette Buch gezogen und hat mich persönlich etwas gestört. Ich wollte aber unbedingt wissen wie alles endet, weil man nach ein paar Büchern von der Autorin weiß, dass am Ende die größten Plots und Aha-Momente kommen. Ich habe es zu kleinen Stücken erahnt aber nie im Leben vollständig. Das Buch lässt mich irgendwie im Zwiespalt. Einerseits wieder eike absolut geniale und durchdachte Geschichte, aber auf der anderen Seite, für mich persönlich, nicht ganz so authentische Hauptcharaktere.
Finde Freidas Schreibstil im englischsprachigen Original noch viel faszinierender. Inhaltlich wieder ein paar gute Twists, aber ich finde der Anfang hat sich etwas gezogen, bis überhaupt die gewohnte Thriller-Stimmung aufkam.
The Tenant was a fun, fast-paced thriller that kept me turning the pages. The writing is very accessible, the short chapters create a great reading flow, and it makes for the perfect book if you're trying to get out of a reading slump. Don't expect a literary masterpiece—but that's not what this book is trying to be. Its main goal is to entertain, and it definitely succeeds. This was my first Freida McFadden thriller, so I can't compare it to her other books, but I thought it was a solid introduction to her work. I did end up deducting half a star because of the very final chapter. The story had already reached a satisfying conclusion, and the additional twist felt unnecessary rather than shocking. Overall, it's an entertaining thriller that's perfect if you're looking for a quick, engaging read.
So predictable, what a shame, it had potential.