Did The Housemaid Plagiarize The Last Mrs. Parrish?!?

I have a question! Did The Housemaid Plagiarize The Last Mrs. Parrish? I discuss that in today's video today. Let me know what you think in the comments down below!
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[@HeatherFlyte]

These plot points were pretty common in Victorian literature. When you started talking about the plot at the beginning, I immediately thought about Lady Audley's Secret (1860ish) - wife hiding her background to infiltrate a wealthy family and ends up in an asylum. But that's 150 years ago, not within the last seven years. Great video!

[@chriswildfire]

Maybe both books got their inspiration from this book and maybe Freida didn't copy after all I hope.

[@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine]

Yes I’ve been waiting for this! I read The Housemaid a year after The Last Mrs Parrish and was like hold up wait a minute and was so surprised to not see many people discussing it. It bothered me cause there was a lot more reviews and commentary about the Housemaid than The Last Mrs. Parrish and I think The Last Mrs Parrish was much better written. As a literary scholar I realize yes there are only so many stories and similarity is common. The same story can be told a thousand different ways. But in these two the execution of the story was also super similar. It was only Millie being less calculating and more sympathetic as a character that took the end, and as a result the two series’ in a very different direction. And that more complex characterization I think does help to give The Housemaid a bit of an edge because readers can root for her more which makes the twist more dramatic. Because coincidences are possible and thrillers have established tropes as well as new tropes that are being established (like the dramatic POV shift that completely changes the kind of thriller structure you thought you were in), I don’t think there would be any point in pursuing a legal case. But I am side eyeing Frieda McFadden for real. The Housemaid reads like the fan fiction I used to write of my favorite books growing up: the same structure with just a few details switched around. These were basically my practice as I learned to go on to write my own original stories which I do believe Frieda McFadden has gone on to do…I just never published and got popular for my practice round.

[@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine]

The Next Mrs. Parrish is pretty good meanwhile I couldn’t get through the Housemaids Secret so…it reminded me of other series I’ve read where the first book was a retelling and then the next have to stand on their own…without the external structure to innovate they fall apart.

[@burnerandhoney]

Yes! It is written so much better than The Housemaid!

[@BoosGaming1]

Not the Sun Spider! Lol😂

[@melissamadera-gutierrez8383]

I read “The Housemaid” first and then “The Last Mrs. Parish” and thought wow this is literally the same plot. I enjoyed both but preferred Mrs. Parish.

[@Sam3liza1103]

I read the housemaid first and loved it. Maybe a month later i picked up the last mrs parish. When i started it, i was like wait did i already read this book? Looked it up on my goodreads and hadnt read it yet so kept reading and questioning my sanity lol.....halfway through i realized that the housmaid was the book i had read. I have read so many thrillers and have never once thought i had already read a book that i hadnt. The setup, plot, and timelines were so similar its crazy! Not saying this was on purpose but just what i noticed as a reader

[@BaileyLondon27]

Very excited to hear your thoughts ❤

[@reflectiverambling1148]

I have not read either, I'm a casual mystery/thriller read, and I am not a lawyer. However, I have studied various parts of US law and from my limited knowledge, any sort of legal case would be very hard to build. for one, 'plagiarism' itself isn't illegal. It depends on context. In school/work it would be an ethics code issue with reprimanding up to to company. However, where it does became an issue is if it's a violation of copyright, patent, or trademark. If there were something like a company or person producing these books through ghost writers, you could potentially tackle it from a contractual claim. I.E. if one author had a contract to produce a book with xyz elements /to specifications of a party, that party then gave the exact same job to another author before the former contract was somehow voided. The problem with copyright and art is that with the right lawyer all it REALLY would take was the argument that there were enough elements that it is not a carbon copy. That's pretty 'easy' with art. You can also argue that 'influence' is a legal thing. Just the fact that the abusive measures of the husbands are different could potentially (again haven't read) be argued as having enough of a ripple effect to make it on its own. The money and masking cope could be something just from research on manipulative behavior. Same with wives having different discovery methods. Setting up an abusive person isn't necessarily uncommon in thrillers. I also see that trend in literary fiction. IT's those "little tweaks" that make the difference. Controllin win wanting more children or insecurities/ undeserving is also a super common theme in any type of book that deals with women in controlling/ 'traditionalist'. PoV shifts aren't always uncommon but the RESULT for the women --the institutions... that is far more sketchy. What I will say is that when in the end it's things like this that i can see the community power has more power. I suspect that the author of the housemaid's work will be far more scrutinized from here on out. If this continues to be a similar thing. ALSO another thing that could change is if you found a connection between the authors themselves being familiar with work, particularly if the later was there in the pre-release days of the first. sorry for the blubbering.

[@burnerandhoney]

Thank you for sharing your expertise! I'm in academia and it's different like you said.

[@reflectiverambling1148]

@@burnerandhoney Aww, thank you!

[@burnerandhoney]

Also - just finished the second one and it was AMAZING! better than the first! Read the prequel first! The First Shot!

[@DoubleA-ou7pj]

Thanks for this comment! I just finished the last Mrs. Parrish and have the second one on hold. I had no idea that there was another one. Publishers really need to figure out a way to let people know that there is a prequel or sequel to a book. I really wish they would just put it on the front cover.

[@burnerandhoney]

So happy I found you :) But from someone who only reads thriller and horror THIS IS NOT NORMAL! There are similar tropes but this is NOT that in my opinion. The following is not proven and is alleged but my opinion: She took a more developed story The Last Mrs. Parrish and diluted it. Frieda does not write well developed characters and leaves plot holes all over the place. I've seen people say several of her books are "similar" to others. Not just this one. She has gotten a little upset with me in a Facebook group for mentioning this lol she's not very nice about it. If anyone thinks Frieda just "happened" to write this book so similarly then I can't relate lol P.S. Apparently, there is a ceramic turtle in her book The Coworker (sound familiar?)

[@Grettss]

I agree, she copied the first book thats why it was good, the housmaids secret and the housemaid is watching are both crap

[@theherblueprint]

i read the housemaid at the start of me getting back into reading and enjoyed it- i just finished the last mrs. parrish since there’s been so many statements about both books being similar and yes, the plot is very similar. i also read the perfect ruin and basically, it’s like a merge of the last mrs. parrish and the housemaid. i’m finding it hard to read thrillers that aren’t similar to other thrillers. and any books after the housemaid by freida is a letdown.

[@WritersBlokk]

Your channel really inspires me to keep pushin

[@moustik31]

I read a lot of manwhas, so I'm pretty used to the idea of one trope/theme being explored/interpreted by different authors. I enjoyed reading both books for different reasons, so I'm glad, they are both being linked to one another bec. I hope it prompts readers to read the 2! 😂

[@nervousbell3419]

I never read either book but you describing it sound pretty damn similar omg 😭

[@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023]

Same!

[@zachreads]

My best mystery thriller of the year is The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

[@lusalma5404]

Haven't read those books and like you not really into the thriller genre but the POV shift makes it really suspicious so yeah I could see why people would think it was plagiarized.

[@moustik31]

The pov shift halfway through is a common convention in domestic thrillers. It's older than Liv Constantine and Freida* McFadden.

[@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine]

@@moustik31Yeah but it’s the way that it happens…and there’s just so many other plot points: the play tickets, the birth control, the daughter’s behavior, and it goes on from there…

[@cherylNA]

Thank you for giving so many side-by-side comparisons because I read the Last Mrs Parrish so long ago that I had forgotten how many similarities there actually were. My mind is 🤯🤯 all over again.

[@Tia_MB]

That is wild! I wonder if there more McFadden's books that are similar to other stories 👀

[@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine]

I’ve heard there is also one that’s a copy of Colleen Hoovers Verity. But I don’t plan on reading a Colleen Hoover book in order to see. And I’ve also heard that Verity is based on Jayne Eyre so the same source material could be the reason for those similarities.

[@burnerandhoney]

I’ve heard there are a ton! I saw on Goodreads and Reddit

[@morena1022]

@@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine That's "The Wife Upstairs." I read both of that and Verity back to back and I will say that ummmm....I plead the 5th. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am reading "Never Lie" now which is being compared to "The Therapist" by B.A. Parris too.

[@morena1022]

@@burnerandhoney Yeah, Reddit is where I heard the tea. Folks made a full list book by book. I was like woah.

[@Dr.Jalondra-MamiMelusine]

@@morena1022So I actually read Never Lie. And I just read the synopsis and first few pages of The Therapist…wow.

[@AurYouReading]

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[@lisa-r4w]

Liv Constantine is actually 2 people, sisters. I read The Last Mrs. Parrish first. Not long after I read The House Maid. While reading The House Maid I kept asking myself why this book seemed so familiar. It dawned me that it was The Last Mrs. Parrish. That alone was enough for me to stop reading Freida McFadden books. It just seems like she took someone else's work and made slight changes and put her name on it. I could be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts on this. 😊

[@marisagettas]

That is one WILD reading experience 😮😮😮😂😂😂

[@Heothbremel]

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[@ascontralto]

I'm not big into procedurals (i do like a few that ive read but i don't seek them out) so i can't speak to particulars, but the genres i DO know very well can often have a lot of recurring tropes and structures, so i wish i did know lol. But I'm also curious, as a creative, what the first author would cite as inspiration for their book. Its not uncommon for authors (and artists in general) to have a work that look very similar, but then you realize its bc they were both being inspired from the same source material, esp if they were released within a year of each other. I have literally zero proof of that happening here either, but it is one of those elements that makes me hesitate on going straight for a "they definitely copied" accusation. But these situations are always messy lol

[@chriswildfire]

I don’t think Freida plagiarized anything creaters sometimes they copy each other but as long as your make it your own it’s ok I prefer freidas book hated the main character in the last Parrish couldn’t believe she would do what she did to another woman I think both are similar to the wife between us which came first I gave the last mrs parrish 1 star and Freida and the wife between us almost 4 stars

[@burnerandhoney]

I’ve never seen two thrillers THIS similar and I’ve read alot. It’s not typical lol

[@katyrye]

I think she idea lifted definitely