Review #549
Binge-listening to Freida’s books are always easy and addictive. This wasn’t one of my favorites by her because of the revenge aspect and it ended more “happily ever after” compared to what I expected. I’ll rate this one a 4.0/5 stars.
This audio has two points of view from both Dawn & Natalie, two women who share cubicles next to each other at the office. Yet, there are also different timelines for “before” and “current.”
I’m assuming Dawn has autism so I appreciate the representation, but it was probably hard for Freida to balance how she portrayed her and I’m wondering if she used a sensitivity reader or not.
Here’s the blurb:
Dawn Schiff is strange.
At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.
So when Dawn doesn’t show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell―beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running―is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything…
It turns out Dawn wasn’t just an awkward outsider―she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who’s the real victim?
But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.
The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present―with deadly consequences.