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The tenant by Freida McFadden.
I am trying to read most of her books currently and I have to admit I wish I sprinkled books by other authors in there because while I do enjoy them, I wish I could add other books to my list, I can but I set that rule or goal for myself so I will respect it.
The tenant was a whirlwind of emotional roller-coaster; I got upset then bored. I wish the villain wasn't who it was, but I understand why she made that person the villain because as a Freida fashion she always picks the least expected character to be the villain and I did not see that one coming at all.
The story started out with Blake Porter a 32-year-old marketing professional who recently got promoted to the VP position after the old VP tried to commit suicide at work by jumping off the building! but the window was to small and his body couldn't fit through so he didn't plumet to his death. Blake was so proud and happy to become the VP, he lived with his Fiancé Krista Marshall who's a manager at a local dry cleaning. Blake then got fired soon after he became a VP because his boss found out that he was leaking secret information to their opponent. Blake claimed he didn't do such thing, and he would never betray his own company, but his boss didn't want to hear it so he was immediately fired!
Back home money was tight, and Blake bought an expensive brownstone house in Manhattan it became hard for him to keep up with the mortgage so Krista his fiancé suggested they get a roommate. After looking for the right tenant, they came across Whitney Cross who seemed nice and friendly but after she moved in, a week later bad things started happening. Blake's cereal box was empty one morning when he wanted to eat breakfast, his shampoo and soap bottle was empty when he wanted to take a shower. He started having this rash on his entire chest and back, he didn't know the cause of it the only thing that would cause the rash is only if he used Imogene detergent and he hasn't! he used a fragence free detergent. What if Whitney was using those types of detergent in the machine and that caused his rash? he then went to Whitney's work at the restaurant she was a waitress at to talk to her about boundaries. Whitney Got mad and things started deteriorating from there.
Blake became paranoid because he thought Whitney was after him and I thought so too but Krista keeps insisting that Whitney is a nice girl and Blake was overreacting. Blake had a fish with Krista has their first pet and one morning the fish was found dead! Blake really believed Whitney killed the fish but again Krista keeps insisting that Blake was losing his mind. I was mad at Krista for not believing her fiancé like girl who's side are you on? he claim that she killed the fish but you're saying that Blake did it!! you've known him for 2 years. Then there was a lot of fruit flies in the house, Blake found a bag with rotten fruits with maggots stored in the cabinet. He was sooo mad that he took the bag and threw it on Whitney's bed with all the maggots.
Then one day Krista came home, and Blake was waiting for her to take her out, but Krista claimed she called him to tell him she was going to be late, but she couldn't reach him. Krista called his phone to help him find it and the phone was in Whitney's room on her bed insinuating that Blake was cheating on Krista with Whitney, but Blake said no he wasn't. But Krista wouldn't hear it she packed her bags and left. That's it Blake had it, he started investigating Whitney and he called her old high school from when they did a background check. When Blake called the school pretending he was a manger hiring Whitney for a job, but the secretary told him, " Whitney is dangerous, I would stay far away from her if I were you."
Blake went to Whitney's old town to her parents' house, but the picture he saw on Whitney's mom living room wasn't the Whitney at his house it was Krista his fiancé ! so Krista is Whitney!
Turns out yes Krista was the one tormenting Blake after she found out he cheated on her; Krista then killed the woman Blake cheated on her with and made his life a living hell. She even poisoned Blake and wrote a suicide note in Blake's jacket from earlier when he went to beg for her back. He only ate one cookie, but he tried to throw up but some of the poison got into his blood stream he tried driving back home only to find Krista already there almost killing Whitney oh by the way Whitney stole Krista's name her real name is Amanda. But Amanda didn't die from the knife Krista/Whitney shoved in her belly she got up and plunge a knife in Krista's chest. Krista then died... then everyone found out Blake wasn't crazy and Krista/ Whitney was a psychopath.... uhm okay?
the story end with Blake going back home and selling the brownstone house, I thought he was going to end up with Amanda but nope he did sleep with her after everything happened but he still wasn't over whitney/ Krista so he left.