The Maid

This was definitely not my cup of tea.

The book follows the story of Molly, who appears to be neurodivergent, although there is no direct diagnosis in the text.
Molly is a 25 years old who loves her job as a maid in a luxury hotel. She struggles with social interactions, has difficulty in understanding conversations and intonations and I found her very childish.
Cleaning plays an important role in her life, largely through the influence of her grandmother, who raised her and established daily cleaning tasks that seem to work as a calming and coping strategy for Molly.
Molly finds a dead man in one of the rooms and ends being the lead suspect of the investigation.

What I didn't like:
- The book summary includes almost the entire plot leaving little room for discovery.
- Molly's personal characteristics seem overly based on existing stereotypes of people on the spectrum. I am not an expert on the subject in the least, but I have read other books with characters on the spectrum, some written by people on the spectrum, and they have a different depth.
- The only reason why there is a plot is because Molly is neuroatypical and everyone is increadibly mean and take advantage of her. This left me very unconfortable, to the point I almost quit reading the book.
I believe books are a good way to teach and promote diversity. However, I think the way to do it should be by focusing on more than their differences. It feels wrong to me and I don't think it is inclusive at all if the story does not work without that specific difference (excluding historical and non fiction obviously).

I really hope that people who struggle as much as Molly have more support on their daily lives and interactions.

The only confort I take of this is that it felt too unreal, I really do not want to believe that this would happen, especially from the police and detective side.

This is obviously an unpopular opinion as there is a lot of hype around the book and it is even being adapted to screenplay by Universal.