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The wife upstairs a novel reviews6/9/2023 With a setting in Alabama, you’d expect at least one of them to have a drippy southern drawl, but there really isn’t a twang to be heard. If I have one quibble, it would be that the female voices are fairly similar and indistinct from one another. The audiobook has a multiple narrator format, which I always enjoy. No complaints there, just a management of expectations. Fortunately she meets Eddie Rochester (wink) and the sparks fly although he recently lost his rich entrepreneurial wife to mysterious circumstances.ĭespite the publisher’s description, I found the atmosphere to be more Bravo TV than gothic. Her means and looks are simple, though she aspires to live a life of more glitz, glamour, and gold. Our main character Jane (natch) is a dog walker in a gated Alabama McMansion community. The action never drags and almost moves so quickly that it flies fairly close to insta-love territory. The Wife Upstairs is the exact opposite of whatever a slow-burn novel is. Consider her classic the spark that lights the fuse of this 2021 thriller, and then just sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Why forget it? Because these are not Bronte’s characters, and this is not her story. Here’s something you should know about The Wife Upstairs and then quickly forget.
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