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A review by emkral22
The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin
3.0
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This one was kind of tough. I was excited by the premise- an influencer buys a #murderhouse to renovate for content and sell for profit, but is it haunted? Did the house have something to do with why the previous owner killed his wife and then himself? But I didn't think it was executed very well. There were lots of threads that never seemed to really pan out, the main character is terribly unlikeable- from the first 10% I considered DNF-ing because I had no interest in hearing any more about what a bad person she was. And then when everything was said and done in the end, I was pretty disappointed with the explanation, I felt like with the epilogue the author tried to create more of a spooky ending, and it just didn't work for me. 2.5 stars rounded up (and it's only rounded up because it takes place in Australia so there was a little novelty of the foreign setting for me)
This one was kind of tough. I was excited by the premise- an influencer buys a #murderhouse to renovate for content and sell for profit, but is it haunted? Did the house have something to do with why the previous owner killed his wife and then himself? But I didn't think it was executed very well. There were lots of threads that never seemed to really pan out, the main character is terribly unlikeable- from the first 10% I considered DNF-ing because I had no interest in hearing any more about what a bad person she was. And then when everything was said and done in the end, I was pretty disappointed with the explanation, I felt like with the epilogue the author tried to create more of a spooky ending, and it just didn't work for me. 2.5 stars rounded up (and it's only rounded up because it takes place in Australia so there was a little novelty of the foreign setting for me)