📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Maid
AUTHOR: Nita Prose @nitaprose
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: January 4, 2022
The Review 📚 The Maid
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- The book had been getting a lot of early buzz. Thank you to @netgalley and Ballantine Books for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The main character, Molly is an innocent who doesn’t pick up on social cues. People take advantage of her because they think she is a simpleton – including the police detective who accuses her of murder. You can’t help but feel for Molly and hope she can figure everything out.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- So many times I found myself so frustrated with the situation. This is not a negative to the book, just more of the feeling while reading. There is a wonderful progression to the story that keeps you on to the end.
🚦 My face at the end: 🙀
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Semi-unreliable narrator
- 2. Murder in a hotel
- 3. Complex cast of characters
- 4. Really bad eggs
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Molly is just a maid who likes a perfect hotel room. When she finds a frequent guest dead in his hotel room, it’s anything but perfect.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Maid
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.
But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late?
A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.