This was just not for me unfortunately. I found it lacked a bit of everything. The pace of it was painstakingly slow. It was painful to deal with Suzie’s thoughts and slow pointless motions throughout the book. I understand it was to show how she suffers from ptsd and anxiety and how she’s still grieving but gah! So. Slow.

Suzie lives alone in London in a house where she owns the bottom floor and the upstairs flat is leased out by a girl named Emily. The floors are thin and she can hear every movement Emily makes, who is in her apartment, when she’s on the phone etc. One day she realizes she hasn’t heard Emily in a while and gets worried she may be missing and the investigation begins.

I just found all of it to be so far fetched. The link between people and the digging and the end! The mood swings Suzie had in a single conversation with someone gave me whiplash. It was sprinkled with a little emotion but not enough to really entice me with any of these characters. Then the end finally came along and it was rushed and disappointing. I hate sounding like such a negative Nancy but I just can’t find anything I enjoyed about this one and I really would not recommend it.

I love HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, so thank you and NetGalley for this amazing advance book copy!

Would you trust your neighbor? Would you trust yours with your life?
Well a neighbor knows everything about Emily! Watched Emily.
And now Emily has gone missing! Can this neighbor find her and save her? The neighbor heard everything!

The book grips you from the start and takes you on a fast paced adventure with lots of twists and turns. It's a delicious dark, psychological thriller.

Thank you again for giving me a chance to read and review!

The Girl Upstairs is a very gripping read, but with a weak ending.

Suzie was a fascinating character, and the way she really throws herself into finding out what happened with Emily is interesting and tense.

However, the ending felt very rushed and not satisfactory to me.

Suzie lives in London almost in isolation. Heartbroken and lonely she dwells in a deep grief, her small apartment is at the same time a refuge and a damnation. Upstairs flat is a rental, and she has seen people come and go, some worse than others, but none quite as bad as Emily. Annoying noises that she makes are obviously designed to cover her loneliness.

One day the noises stop and Emily is obviously missing. Suzie becomes obsessed with Emily's dissapearance. Due to her concerns interferes to police investigation and in the process finds herself again.

Protagonist Suzie is relatable in her loneliness, anxiety and isolation which are often common in big cities. Narrative flows and the plot is complex and believable.

Fast-paced and unputdownable psychological thriller.