The Wife Upstairs

A Novel

Hardcover, 304 pages

Published Jan. 5, 2021 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-1-250-24549-6
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3 stars (6 reviews)

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Review of 'The Wife Upstairs' on 'Storygraph'

1 star

I wanted to give a higher rating to this audiobook but I couldn't find anything redeeming about it. I know how harsh that sounds. But a Goodreads two stars rating is "It was ok" and this was not. It was not ok. By the time I got to 75% I was ready to launch my phone (reminder: audiobook) across the room and stomp on my headphones.

So what issues did I have with the book? Well, I will do my best to avoid any spoilers but some might get spoiler-adjacent.

Let's start with the narrators. There were three of them. One for each of the female POV characters and one for the male. The male narrator I'd heard before and enjoyed just fine. Eddie has a tiny portion of the book from his POV which was narrated in a pretty much emotionless, excruciatingly slow cadence. The narrator for Bea was …

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