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She has withdrawn from most aspects of life and seems anxious about interacting with outsiders, or even leaving her flat. Of course she gets worried about her neighbor but she is also scared to lose her main focusing subject help her to get through her days. Love how the author unravels the backstory slowly, inch by inch, making me as a reader dying to know what exactly happened to main character that made her in the situation she is currently in.
Unfortunately, the pacing of this novel is just so slow and Suzie just isn’t interesting enough to pull you in and sustain you in the unfolding storyline. We meet our protagonist, Suzie, a young woman who is living in a downstairs flat in a busy part of London. She is constantly annoyed by her upstairs neighbour Emily who leaves things in the hallway and plays her music too loud.This may have been deliberate, or it may have been due to this being an eARC and therefore there were some issues with the text attributable to that. Even when Suzie went way above and beyond what I would do to investigate the disappearance on her own, I felt that I could empathize with her and didn't really have to suspend my disbelief.
Shortly following this event, Emily goes missing and Suzie, despite being an unreliable witness who barely knew Emily, is the only one who seems concerned for her whereabouts.The creeping dread that became all-encompassing throughout this book was incredibly well done … will have you gripped from the first page! Suzie can't handle the noise, but suddenly there isn't any noise after a big party that Emily had for her birthday.
I have lived in a ground floor flat with a herd of selfish and uncaring elephants above me and so could immediately empathise with Suzie, barely coping with her own tragedy and imposed on every minute of every day by the loud music, shrieking friends and clumping heels of Emily upstairs. Georgina draws inspiration from her surroundings from the congested London streets to the raw English countryside. Sometimes IEmily has gone missing and nobody seems to be worried about it, except for her downstairs neighbour who has gotten to know Emily from afar, but nobody can be trusted, can Emily be saved?
The characterization of our main characters is so well done that I really felt like I knew these women and my heart broke for them time and again. She can be found playing games, writing stories, and reading anything from fantasy to crime fiction. Downstairs is Suzie, full of sadness, life in stasis, stuck in her life and her flat, the apparent polar opposite to Emily who seems to be living her life. The Girl Upstairs is a spine-tingling psychological thriller of grief and obsession, by debut novelist Georgina Lees. She knows so well her meaningless playlist insisted of blazing, ear bleeding pop song choices she truly detest and Emily keeps playing them after 11 p.In Suzie’s opinion, no one seems to care enough about Emily’s disappearance – not her parents, not her coworkers, not even the police – so Suzie is determined to get to the bottom of things. Creepy because Suzie had an aura of ‘ unreliable narrator‘ about her… For the first half of the book I was all the time wondering if she was a narrator that I could trust.
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