✨ Book Review ✨
📖 The Inmate
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I love Freida's books which are amazing I started with the housemaid and had to keep going.
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I saw this book and instantly knew I had to read it. Brooke Sullivan is a nurse practitioner and has just started a new job at a maximum security prison. It also is where her ex-boyfriend is currently locked up. Interesting very interesting!
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I switched back and forth between who was the killer but still didn't see the ending coming!
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Some parts I did feel were a little bit slow but overall really enjoyed this book which is why it's 3.5 stars.

The Inmate follows our main character Brooke navigate life back in her hometown. Brooke experienced many traumatic life experiences, the biggest one causing her high school boyfriend to land in prison. This prison happens to be the prison she just got hired at.

I enjoyed trying to figure out the twists in this book! Some of them seemed a bit cliche (loss of cell service and a storm that cuts power), but that’s the fun of it. I was really rooting for Brooke to come out of all of this unscathed. I didn’t have strong feelings for any other characters, mainly because they all seemed angry at each other in some parts and cahoots in other parts. I feel like the big twist we saw at the end felt like it came out of left field and got resolved too quickly. Then again, I did enjoy it and would read another book from this author.

Tons of gratitude to Poisoned Pen Press and Netgalley for this awesome e-ARC!!! I'm so glad for this chance and I've truly enjoyed the novel! Such an awesome ride to the unbeknownst!

It was an anxious start that had me felt nerve-wrecking and thinking what I have gotten myself into. The desire to stop is there as well as the anticipation on what is to come. As I flipped the pages, I slowly find it to sound a little like Sarah Michelle Gellar's 'I know what you did last summer' LOL!!! However, the more it progressed, the more confused I was on who did it?! Thankfully it's the e version so I couldn't just flip to the back to know how it ends :-)

I liked the clarity of the story, how it was written and identified past or present day. This novel does go back and forth in order to know what happened before and after. The author sure knows how to keep us guessing and guessing, without giving much away, only little nibling bits here and there! I am surprised at how it ended, not knowing who to believe from when it happened and then the unexpected suddenly pop-up! I was pleasantly surprised with the actual outcome!

I liked the overall premise of this novel though it isn't as dark or sinister, yet it was troubling and scary. I have only read her other novel, The Coworker, so I can't compare this with any of the author's work, but I did enjoy this one with a different depth to it. If you are looking for a mindboggling read, The Inmate is a good one to try from Freida McFadden.

Thank you NetGalley & Freida McFadden for supplying me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Freida McFadden has quickly became one of my favorite authors. I started with The Housemaid and quickly started reading all of her books. They are addicting & always end up surprising me which is a nice change from thrillers that you always end up guessing the ending to! This is another great book by this author! Highly recommend!

Man this was good… the twisted mind of Freida McFadden never disappoints.

I thought I had it figured out.. but I did not.

The first chapter hooked me with the very last sentence. Then all I could think about was finishing this book.

This was a great thriller mystery. It is about a women who works at a prison where her ex who happened to be convicted of an attack against her. I was like it’s gonna be that guy then another and the twists kept coming. I couldn’t put it down. And the epilogue I didn’t see coming.

Excellent thriller! Past mysteries meet with the present in The Inmate. I thought I knew who the killer was going to be, but was totally surprised towards the end! Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy

I LOVED this thriller, i love all of her books but this is in my top 2 of my favorite ones I’ve read by her. The premise was very unique to me, and there were plot twists and turns that i just could not guess. This was a 4.5 stars for me!

I LOVE ALL of Freida's books. I have read so many and they never disappoint.
However, this book was not my favorite, which was very upsetting.
I still enjoyed this one though! I loved the mystery and thriller aspect of this book. I read this book in under 24 hours and it kept me entertained!
Thank you to everyone for this ARC I am very very grateful!

I thoroughly enjoy ALL of Freida's books! Some more than others, but overall, all of her books are extremely gripping. I love the short chapters and the "left on the edge of my seat" feeling after reading each chapter. Plus, I love how she is a master of making you think you have figured it out, but have not. I half figured this one out, but I didn't figure out the connection to the half I had figured out (if that makes sense)
Highly recommend this book and many others by this Author. She is a true genius of her craft and I look forward to The Boyfriend and the 3rd installment of the Housemaid series - The Housemaid is Watching! Keep knocking em out so your loyal readers can keep devouring em Freida!!!

Alright...unpopular opinion maybe, but I didn't fw this book at all. 2.5 stars.

Our girly is freakin delusional and is the worst fucking judge of character. All the men in her life are creepy and weird and she should seriously just stay on her own and do her own thing. Idc who the "bad guy" was in this story because they all seemed off to me and gave me the ICK.

Another issue I had was right off the bat a MALE MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON hires a girl who has a massive connection to an inmate??!?! No. Just no. This is completely unrealistic and no matter how desperate a prison is they would never hire her irl. Particularly because this is a smaller town and so many people know her...I just can't.

I'm also very upsetti spaghetti because of the ending. That twist was so unnecessary and kind of made me bummed out.

I'm going to keep trying this author because her other books do seem great so this hasn't ruined me for good. I just really hope they're better than this one (sorry!!).

Another amazing book by Freida McFadden. Just when you think you have it figured out, Freida will surprise you. The Inmate focuses on nurse practitioner, Brooke Sullivan, who just took a job at a maximum security prison. While this isn't a job anyone would be excited for, Brooke will be working in the same prison that her ex-boyfriend who tried to murder her is serving a life sentence, and she's the one who put him there. Upon Brooke seeing him for the first time, he immediately tries to instill doubt in her that he didn't actually try to murder her all those years ago. Is he manipulating her? Did Brooke misremember wrong? The Inmate takes you on a creepy, mysterious journey trying to figure out the truth of what happened all those years ago.

Freida MacFadden knows how to write a cracking yarn. This book hooked me from the very start and didn’t let go. Back in her home town, single mother Brooke Sullivan, desperate for a job, ends up working as a nurse practitioner in a maximum-security penitentiary. It’s not only the criminals who have committed extremely serious offenses that give her cause for worry though. Also incarcerated is Shane Nelson, a notorious inmate with whom Brooke shares a highly-charged past. This sets the scene for a roller-coaster ride as Brooke navigates her new role, reassesses what put Shane in prison in the first place, finds love – and then begins to second-guess everything she ever thought she knew about her past. In typical MacFadden fashion, the twists keep coming and it’s impossible to know who or what to believe. A quick, thrilling read

This is a fast paced, twisty read. I read it in 2 days because I needed to know what happened. It did read like a YA book for me though. The chapters alternated between present and past and were very short. This ons is right up on par with her other book and I can't wait to see what she writes next!

I love Freida’s books so full of surprises. Always wondering whodoneit!
The Inmate was a great psychological thriller. Right from the start I was hooked and wanting to find out more about Brooke Sullivan.
It was too obvious for an bit and then boom! So manny twists, just what I love in a thriller.
All I will say is… that epilogue!
Wow!!!
Way to go Freida you always keep me guessing! This book is a must read for thriller fans.
4.5 star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Wow! I read this in less than 24 hours. I love a good Freida McFadden book, and this one had some good twists- I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book so quickly. Definitely worth the read!

This book is kind of like the fast food of thrillers — It’s a bingeable fast read that might lack the depth or complexity of other thrillers but is nonetheless enjoyable. Freida McFadden is the queen of the twist, and she certainly kept me guessing until the end. I enjoyed The Inmate more than her recent book, The Teacher.
3.5🌟

THE INMATE: a gritty, twisty thriller of obsession
I had heard of Freida McFadden because of her now world-famous HOUSEMAID series, so I really wanted to get an idea of her style. I love prison novels, because grit is my thing when it comes to fiction. I had an idea of how twisty the author's style is, based on what people were telling me about the aforementioned series. So I came in expecting a gritty, super-twisty read. And this book really is both!
Brooke Sullivan put her star quarterback boyfriend behind bars in a men's maximum security prison. She testified against him. And he knows. And...guess where Brooke now works as a prison nurse? Yep! Same ol' slammer her boyfriend, Shane Nelson, star quarterback and serial killer is in. This one is a ride, from start to finish, and the twists just keep coming. You know the feeling of speeding on a road with a lot of curves and bumps? This is definitely one of those rides! And while some suspension of disbelief is required, for a quick, entertaining thriller, it sure does its job! Solid four out of five!

Before this novel, the only book I'd read by McFadden was The Housemaid, which is obviously a huge book for her. So I was really excited when I realized she's written a lot of other books! Unfortunately, this one wasn't quite it for me.

I'll get the bad stuff out of the way first: Brooke, the main character? So annoying and so STUPID. She starts working at the same prison that her ex is at, and she seriously thinks she's never going to run into him? For real? Girl. She also makes choices around who her son sees that I just could not understand. I'm not a mom, but towards the end of the book I felt like I could make better mom decisions than she did.

I also feel like a certain part of the twist at the end was pulled out of thin air - I feel like Freida really wanted an "oh shit!" moment, but nothing from the novel lead us to that moment. It felt like a last minute throw in for maximum impact, and for me it fell a little flat.

That said, I did love the alternative timelines, which lead me to understand how Brooke's past influenced the present. The story in general was good, and I would love to know how realistic McFadden's portrayal of prison is. While I was a little annoyed with part of the twist at the end, it was still good.

Definitely an average read, but I would say it's worth giving a chance.

This book kept me guessing until the very last page! I love a book where I am constantly trying to figure out “who done it” and am still able to be surprised by multiple twists. Most of Frieda’s books have been this way for me so far and that’s what makes me love her stories so much!