Kindle: The House Guest, Mark Edwards

This book had started off with so much potential. A young couple, an actress and a writer go over to New York because the actress got a role in broadway, to find their feet they house sit for a couple that they met on a ship. The couple's house is in Williamsburg in New York. One evening a young lady, Eden, knocks on their door, says she knows the couple and hoped that she could stay with them. They can't get hold of couple and then lets her in. First of the book great. Then, after a boozy evening, the actress and Eden are missing. Second part of the book just spirals downward, so boring and tedious. Ends up that Eden is part of a cult and how they have identified the actress to be part of it, everyone is involved. Highly unlikely. A load of rubbish. Not for me. 2/5. 

Kindle: Keep Your Friends Close, Lucinda Berry

A group of Moms, who had started an exclusive club for first time Moms; by invite only, decides to have a big party. Kids sent to babysitters and husbands out for the evening. Ladies dressed to the nines, ready for a fun evening. Everyone is drinking and having a lot of fun until Kiersten is found dead in the swimming pool, it is an accident or a murder? The book then unfolds with the stories of: Brooke, Jade, Whitney, then and now. A great 'who dunnit'. Written well. 

4/5

Book: The Housemaid, Freida McFadden

The first half of the book was very meh. I really didn't get the hype. It's about Millie an ex con looking for a job. She gets a housekeeping job, live in; she needs to cook and also look after the child. Nina, the woman who hires her turns out to be a horrible, unreasonable with her requests, flies off the handle. Millie is attracted to Nina's husband, which doesn't help the dynamics. Millie find out that Nina was in a mental institution because she tried to drown her daughter. 

Second part of the book we get to see everything from Nina's point of view and here things start getting interesting and there are a couple of big plot twists. 

The story line with the twists are good, but, I don't think that it is written particularly well. Not sure whether I will attempt the second book. The hype was a bit much for this one. 

Initially I thought it's 5/5, but the more I think about it, it's a 3/5 for me.