Audiobook Review: The Tenant by Freida McFadden
The Tenant
Author: Freida McFadden
Narrators:
Will Damron
Christine Lakin
Published: May 6, 2025
Audiobook: 8 hours 50 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: July 28- August 1, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
There’s no place like home…
Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet.
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 his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets…
Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it’ll be far too late. The trap is already set.
Jessica’s Review:
The Tenant is Freida McFadden’s newest novel and I enjoyed it. McFadden always seems to have a few things that stick out in her novels and this time I counted four: Limonene (which I had never heard of until this novel), fruit flies (ewww!), Snickerdoodles (nom nom), and Goldy the fish! (Small spoiler alert for the animal lovers: Goldy does not make it to the end of the novel. END SMALL SPOILER).
The three main characters of Blake, Krista, and Whitney were not likeable at all. And I kept thinking “Do we have an unreliable narrator in Blake?” My favorite character was Goldy. We have short chapters as always and two narrators, along with twists throughout the novel. This time the twists weren’t shocking or big for me. I got to the final twist and thought, “Yeah, I can see that”.
It’s not my favorite McFadden novel, but definitely not my least favorite. I need to read more of her backlog of novels she has written. (The Surrogate Mother is on my list of her to listen to next).
We had two narrators in The Tenant and they both did a very good job! Their voices fit the personality of the characters.
I enjoy McFadden’s novels, but hope she isn’t becoming burnt out. She has devoted fans that just seemingly demand more from her and “don’t know what they are going to do!” until her next novel comes out because they have read all of her novels. McFadden is also very active in her Facebook group which I am in. Please Freida, take a break if you really need it!