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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 277 – The Housemaid

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

 

Are you guys looking for an absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist? Well, great news: we read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. Even greater news: we were joined by Rax King, author of Tacky and Sloppy, and cohost of the Low Culture Boil podcast! Listen to this episode while you clean your house–or better yet, while someone else cleans your house.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: The Housemaid movie trailer

Coming up next: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers where we read about a gaslighting girl boss who gets a gatecapped in the attic so you don't have to.

0:19.2

I'm Renata.

0:20.2

And I'm Kate.

0:22.7

And for this episode, we read The House Made by Freedom McFadden. Joining us to discuss this, quote, absolutely addictive

0:29.4

psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist is Rax King, author of Tacky and Sloppy and

0:36.0

co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boyle.

0:38.7

Hi, Rex.

0:39.6

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

0:42.0

I'm so excited to have you here.

0:46.5

Listers might recall I literally picked Tacky as my favorite book of the year, whichever

0:52.3

year it came out.

0:53.6

Oh, that's really nice.

0:56.1

On one of our good book episodes, to be clear.

0:58.8

We would never put you on our worst list.

1:02.9

And then invite me on here?

1:04.8

That would be evil, evil behavior.

1:08.1

Yeah, and then if you'll notice, your room actually only locks from the outside and don't worry about it.

1:17.9

No, I'm so excited.

1:19.1

Kate and I don't often invite authors on the podcast because we just get, A, it can be weird

1:24.4

when it's like, can you come like make fun of another book with us and be we're

1:28.1

shy but i i boldly invited rex and now look at me go i'm so excited look at me go is a really good

1:36.9

way to end that sentence let me go now look at me go.

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