The Wife Upstairs
Ratings21
Average rating3.9
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Ratings21
Average rating3.9
Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect -- or so it seems. Then she's in a terrible accident... and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unalbe to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn't as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There's a story Victoria desperately wants to tell... if only she can get out the words. Then Sylvia discovers Victoria's diary hidden away in a drawer. And what's inside is shocking.
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I read it only to see how close to Verity it was. It was very close, but I actually liked it better. But that's not saying much. Both had stupid unbelievable people. And whomever think Montauk is a cheap place to buy a house has done no research whatsoever!
3 in a stretch, actually. During the course of the book, I was in a roller coaster: hm, interesting. Hm, weird. hm, trying too hard. hm, seriously? I mean, sometimes thriller authors do seem to go a little further than they could in an apparent attempt to surprise readers. In the end, I was almost confused. I mean, is everyone here a villain? and not the everyday kind: the soap opera, throw you over the stairs kind. Come on! Still, it was not badly written, despite some inconsistencies that nagged at me (even stupid things like the fact that even though she had not that many friends the boyfriend seemed to find her - and write from seven different phones... - or the fact that despite always wearing black make up she had none in her purse), I liked the ending - presented some closure, even if a bit soapy.
