This was terrifying for me! I read through this so quick. I loved how the POV changed and the way it was done--it made everything more suspenseful and kept me guessing the whole time. This felt very unique, too, in a genre that can feel saturated with stories in similar veins. Loved it!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for gifting me an advanced reader copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review and opinion.

This is a really well paced thriller, is quite unique in format and plot devices, and kept me interested. I will say I didn’t love Rachel’s voice…it felt very detached and methodical - although I’m assuming that is how someone would feel in her situation.

Thank you Knopf Publishing Group for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own!

This was such a creepy read. I enjoyed the suspense and different perspectives of the serial killer. I felt like it was a bit slow midway through. However, the rest was so tense and you felt for Rachel the girl who could have easily been killed. You felt like at any moment Aidan Thomas would turn on her and kill her like the other women he had killed.

Aidan Thomas is a serial killer in the shadows and a normal, average dad by day. This story follows Aidan's story through three woman in his life; his girlfriend, daughter and Rachel the woman locked in the backyard shed. Each women has such a different perspective of Aidan that it makes for a very interesting story. Rachel must do all she can to survive. While his girlfriend Emily is falling in love with him after they get talking at her bar. Cecilia, Aidan's daughter, is coping with her mother's death and figuring out what is going on with her father.

Content: Heavy Swearing, sexual assault, spicy scenes, child abuse, serial killer, manipulation

Read if you enjoy:
Tense scenes
Twists
Thrillers
Serial Killer stories
Multiple POV

While this book was fairly predictable, I still enjoyed the plot and reading the different points of view. The ending was a bit anti-climatic and rushed for how long it took the author to build up to it, but I still appreciated how the victim went to the police instead of trying to just make a run for it. I was also impressed how the author is French but wanted to publish in the American market.

I could not put this down! That being said I hate books written in second person so I really struggled with it and if it hadn't been such a page turner I wouldn't have kept going. I did though because it felt very suspense packed and like I NEEDED to know what was going to happen.

So I went into this expecting a wild thrilling ride and I mostly got what I was looking for. I will 100% say this kept my attention, through the whole book. We learn about Aiden through the 3 women in his life, his daughter Cecilia, his crush Emily, and the woman he kidnapped Rachel.

Loved Rachel and boy is she a fighter. She is exceptionally smart as well, as she is always thinking several steps ahead. I did not understand Emily. She is obsessed. Poor Cecilia is just a child, a teen, who does not understand how the world works yet.

I was left with many many questions though. I am going to need this author to give me some good answers. I need to know more!!

I switched from audio to ebook to hardback for this one. The audio was lovely and the characters were well done. Highly recommend the audio.

4 stars and big thanks to Netgalley, the authors, and publishers for allowing me access to read and review.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was very well written and a page turner indeed. The characters and storyline was what kept me interested. I really liked the multi-POVs in the story, just only wished we were able to have Aidan’s POV towards the end.

Wow! What a debut. The Quiet Tenant was a very quick read since I couldn't put it down once I started. I really enjoyed the short chapters, different point of views, and overall read of this book.

It took me a while to get into the second person POV. I found the story to be engaging but nothing blew me away. It was rarely suspenseful or thrilling more cut and dry. I enjoyed this book and I feel it’s a good debut novel but not memorable for me personally. I would read more from this author.

A classic literary thriller, Clemence Michallon joins the ranks of Megan Abbott and Gillan Flynn as a new master of feminist crime fiction.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC!

One of the best parts about this book I thought was the format and structure in which we slowly learn more and more about Aiden's history and experience leading up to his latest victim. I was continuously enthralled and kept on my toes about what was going to happen next. Such a unique thriller and absolutely couldn't put it down.

A GRIPPING DEBUT THRILLER - 5 STARS!

I was very excited to receive this ARC of a debut thriller with a rather ominous and intriguing synopsis! This review comes rather late, about 6 months so, but I had to review it to let everyone know how amazing this gripping thriller is! I have recommended this to several friends and customers at the bookstore I work at and I still think about how this was one of the most unexpected 5 star reads I read of 2023!

We follow Aiden Thomas who on the surface, is a lovely family man with a face well known in different facets of his local community. But under the surface...lies a deeply disturbed and psychotic killer!! He hides his victims in the shed under the noses of his wife and daughter for months or years on end before he finally decides to murder them! It's quite sadistic but makes for one hell of a main character in a psychological thriller!

Early in the novel his wife unexpectedly passes away and Aiden and his daughter decide to move to new community. Just one problem...he is currently holding Rachel imprisoned! He has two choices, kill her or bring her along for the ride. So he brings her along and introduces Rachel to his daughter Cecilia as a friend who needs a place to stay for awhile. The point of view switches between Aiden, Rachel and Cecilia and Rachel is carefully trying to devise a plan on how to escape from Aiden's clutches.

But then... The plot thickens. A lovely new woman Emily, who is the owner of a local restaurant catches the eyes of our illustrious killer! It adds her point of view to the equation along with another added complication to Aiden's plot.

I cannot express how faced paced and intense this thriller was! I am not exaggerating that I was on the edge of my seat for a good chunk of this book. The intensity of the plot building up to the climax was like a powder keg! I have not stopped thinking about this book since I read it almost six months ago and I cannot recommend it enough, you owe it to yourself to read THE QUIET TENANT. As this was a debut by the author I cannot wait to see what she has coming up down the road.

This a creepy book of what can happen if someone with a duel role to his life kidnaps you. Can a person make you believe you enjoy being his victim. This is a psychological thriller you can’t put down

The Quiet Tenant was such a pleasant surprise that just crept up on me. This book is based on the story of a kidnappers captive and his daughter which I thought was super unique. That's all that you really need to know going into this story. If you enjoy mystery/thriller's or want to just clutch your pearls while reading a book waiting to know what happens next, this is the book for you.

Also one thing to note is to go and read up on the author and the writing of this book as she discusses her experience while writing during the pandemic, how she crafted this story and also details on the house in the story (yes, it's a real place!).

I will be keeping my eye on this author and her upcoming novels. :)

A big thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for allowing me to read an advance copy!

Such great writing. I was looking for a dark, psychological thriller and I found it! I loved hearing the stories from the various points of views. The story kept me pulled in and it was so hard to put down, as I was totally invested in each of their lives.

This book is a great psychological thriller that you will nnnot want to put down. Aiden is a kidnapper and serial killer. The book deals with how he gets his victims and circumstances that cause him to do this. You will not want to put this book down until you finish it.

If you like slow burn suspense, this is well worth your time. The narration was well done, which all things considered likely made it even more enjoyable since they used various people for the differing character perspectives. I also follow true crime (not to the level of “junkie”), making the captor/captee plot especially realistic. It wasn’t overdone and the author didn’t rush getting to the finale, which I feel is what made this work so well. I could have done without the elongated Emily update at the end. No offense to her character, she just wasn’t someone the reader has much vested into and it detracted from the experience of our victim and what should have been centrally her climatic end (Cecelia would have been a preferable alternative if we needed more than May’s perspective). 4.25 stars

I didn’t love or hate this book. I think it had potential but just fell short. The story wasn’t bad, I wish it was faster. I wish I’d connected with the main character more. I would still recommend. It was a bigger hit with some of my other friends.

This was quite a surprise reading for me. It was suspenseful, and I appreciated the story being told from a kidnapped woman's perspective as she was held by a man for five years. It is also told from other points of view, but when they say that serial killers can be your next-door neighbor, they are correct. There were some twists and turns that I didn't expect!