Audiobook Review: The Crash by Freida McFadden
The Crash
Author: Freida McFadden
Narrator: Leslie Howard
Published: January 28, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 13 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 10-15, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars
Book Description:
The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child.
Jessica’s Review:
Freida did it again!
I really enjoyed The Crash. It was fast moving and intense and starts out with a death. It had some similarities to Misery with a snow storm and a main character keeping the other character locked away against their will. Granted we have a pregnant woman instead of an author, but still, why would you even go out and drive in bad weather!?!?! Some people just don’t have common sense… But then if Tegan did have common sense then we wouldn’t’ have this story to read!
Tegan is eight months pregnant and her life is not going the way she planned. After some ‘baby daddy’ drama she decides to go stay with her brother for a while until she figures out what to do next with her life. She never makes it as she crashes into a tree. And ends up with a broken ankle. Depending on how you look at it, Tegan is ‘saved’ by a couple and stays in their home. Until she realizes that she doesn’t want to stay there and she is unable to leave. Tegan’s rescue becomes her worst nightmare.
Polly is the wife and Hank is the husband and something is not quite right with the way things are going with them. We know from the start of the novel that there is a death, but we don’t know who the killer is and who is dead. This is a Freida book, so you may change your mind so many times as to what is going to happen. Just when you think you know what’s going on McFadden brings on yet another twist!
The Crash is very fast paced, and from the accident forward it is just four very intense days for Tegan. I am proud to say I picked out who the killer from the beginning is, just not who the victim is. And there were twists I never saw coming: I was shocked at one particular one. For most of the book I was thinking I would give it 4.5 stars, but the final part of the novel was just… perfect for me!
The narrator is Leslie Howard and she did a great job with the narration! She has been around for a while and has narrated several of McFadden’s previous novels.
I am excited to see what McFadden brings us next! Whether I read an older book of hers or an upcoming novel. I am definitely a Freida Readah! Keep on writing Mrs. McFadden!