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The Lady Upstairs

Halley Sutton (Goodreads Author)

3.48 · Rating details · 491 ratings · 144 reviews

A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men...then finds herself in over her head and with blood on her hands. The only way out? Pull off one final con.

Jo's job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles--handsy Hollywood producers, adulterous actors, ...more

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Published November 17th 2020 by G.P. Putnam's Sons

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Feb 20, 2020 Nilufer Ozmekik rated it really liked it

This is gripping, surprisingly entertaining, action packed reading with kickassing, tough, cool heroines tells provocative story with #metoo vibes and quite delicious feminism references.

We may proudly announce there is fresh talented author out there about the release her captivating debut novel! Well done dear Halley Sutton who brought an original, different plot and hooked me up at with those first pages. Even though at some parts I get lost my interest just a little bit, she wrapped up the This is gripping, surprisingly entertaining, action packed reading with kickassing, tough, cool heroines tells provocative story with #metoo vibes and quite delicious feminism references.

We may proudly announce there is fresh talented author out there about the release her captivating debut novel! Well done dear Halley Sutton who brought an original, different plot and hooked me up at with those first pages. Even though at some parts I get lost my interest just a little bit, she wrapped up the story so well with quite intriguing and clever conclusion.

Let’s chat about the plot and meet with our heroines, bad guys and story’s progression:
We’re introduced to Joe: our one of kickass, strong, likable heroines, pays her dues, atones for her sins with a risky job she took. She works for Lady Upstairs to punish the ruthless men including corrupted police officers, abuser Hollywood Producers and dirty cheater actors. She seems like a vigilante who brings justice to town. Her coworker Lou gives the orders she took from their mysterious boss.

Everything seems going flat and Jo is about to pay her debt to earn her freedom. But she makes a big mistake at her job and one of her targets is found murdered which takes the attention of LAPD and her lovely, vicious and dangerous lady boss. Now her life is at the stake and she needs to accept the biggest con to save herself and coworker from the wrath of her boss. But her new assignment couldn’t be more risky: she needs to take down a dangerous and resourceful politician. Payback is karma’s little sister, both of them are real bitches! Could Jo achieve her mission and save herself from the danger? Lips are sealed. You gotta read it! But I have to admit especially last pages are thrilling, edgy, dazzling, twisty makes you squirm at your seats and forces you turn the pages as fast as you could.

Overall: I’m giving four moving, enjoyable, captivating, impressive stars! It was promising and great start! I’m looking forward to read more works of Halley Sutton in near future.

Special thanks to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam/ G.P. Putnam’s Sons for sharing this entertaining ARC in exchange my honest review. ...more

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Aug 16, 2020 Bridgett rated it liked it

Shelves: arc

A promising debut from Halley Sutton, a gifted new voice of the modern noir.

The Lady Upstairs was a timely novel about blackmail, secrets, revenge, desire, and sex. The rotten underbelly of Los Angeles, and its beautiful, famous inhabitants, was exposed in the dark bars and seedy hotels that line so many of her streets. There is something so deliciously satisfying about a group of women working to take down powerful, but vile, men...especially Jo, our femme fatale protagonist. It all ties s ...more

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Dec 22, 2020 Faith rated it liked it

Shelves: netgalley, overdrive, audio, reviewed

The lady upstairs is the operator of a ring of prostitutes who blackmail their rich marks. The lady’s identity is secret, but it is pretty easy to figure out. Jim Thompson or James M. Cain could have given this plot some bite and menace. Unfortunately, this book is just tacky. It isn’t clever enough to overcome the ickiness of it’s premise. Jo, the protagonist, drinks a lot and has sex a lot, with both her male and female colleagues and marks. She is also in charge of recruiting other women to b ...more

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Dec 30, 2020 Ash rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Recommends it for: people who like angsty characters

Shelves: mystery, lgbt-main-character, read-2020, 2-stars

I had such high hopes for this book. The description sounded like everything I need in my life: women taking down rich men in Hollywood who take advantage of other women. But even though The Lady Upstairs was a fast, fun, easy read, it didn’t live up to my expectations.

First, and this is entirely my bad for not paying closer attention to the blurb (which seems to be a running theme in my reviews… oops), I didn’t realize the protagonist, Jo, wasn’t blackmailing rich men on her own. She works for I had such high hopes for this book. The description sounded like everything I need in my life: women taking down rich men in Hollywood who take advantage of other women. But even though The Lady Upstairs was a fast, fun, easy read, it didn’t live up to my expectations.

First, and this is entirely my bad for not paying closer attention to the blurb (which seems to be a running theme in my reviews… oops), I didn’t realize the protagonist, Jo, wasn’t blackmailing rich men on her own. She works for a mysterious figure, the titular Lady Upstairs. The Lady Upstairs runs the show and chooses the targets, Jo instructs the girls who sleep with the men they blackmail, Jackal captures the photo and video evidence and collects the blackmail, and Lou oversees Jo and Jackal and is the only one of the three employees who actually knows and interacts with the Lady Upstairs.

This setup was a huge letdown. I thought Jo would be running a badass one-woman operation that she herself had masterminded. I thought she would choose the targets herself, seduce them herself, and blackmail them herself. The actual story was a lot less glamorous. Jo is the newest employee at the Lady Upstairs’ blackmail operation and from the looks of things, she’s not very good at her job. She doesn’t have any say in which men they target or how much money they demand. And she’s in debt to the Lady Upstairs for botching a previous job.

Jo’s main responsibility is recruiting and coaching wannabe-actresses to have sex with creepy rich dudes in return for a cut of the blackmail money. This, to me, seemed exploitative, especially since the only one of these women we meet, Ellen, isn’t at all enthusiastic about her part in the scam and in fact repeatedly tries to get out of it, only for Jo to convince her to keep going. And after these women successfully deliver on their part of the job, they don’t have anything more to do with the Lady Upstairs or her operation. They go back to their lives of trying and failing to make it big in Hollywood.

It didn’t help that, despite making a point early on in the book that one of her personal rules is not to trust women who don’t like other women, Jo doesn’t seem to like most other women. She’s extremely judgmental of Ellen, and of any other woman who would sleep with a man just because he’s rich or famous. The only person she shows any affection toward is Lou. Their relationship was actually really interesting in the beginning, infinitely more interesting than Jo’s hate-sex with Jackal, but once it became clear that Lou didn’t care about Jo half as much as Jo cared about her, all I wanted was for Jo to leave Lou and Jackal and the Lady Upstairs behind and go do something else with her life.

I will say, the best part about this book, for me, was its plot. It was twisty and suspenseful but never unbelievable and it succeeded in making it difficult for me to put the book down. But I didn’t like any of the characters. They were all bitter and cold-hearted and mean. The premise of this book made it sound like it would have some sort of feminist message, women taking back power from men who deserved it, but instead it was just women (and Jackal) coercing other women into having sex with gross men and then blackmailing those men for relatively low amounts of money. (Fifty thousand dollars from a major Hollywood producer? These people could do better.)

As for the ending, I saw it coming a mile away, but at least it made sense. I think this is an unpopular opinion, but I prefer a thriller with a predictable but believable ending over one with an ending that comes out of nowhere but doesn’t fit with the rest of the story. But it wasn’t enough to make the rest of the book worth recommending. ...more

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Dec 28, 2020 Frank Phillips rated it liked it

This was decent for a debut, and it was so fast-paced that I listened to the audio in less than 2 days, however the subject matter just was not for me. Female con artists in pursuit of rich, cheating husbands (the richer the better), and other 'bad men' in hopes to seduce them and blackmail them with photographic or video evidence is essentially the gist of this novel. Jo is our protagonist in this one, and she's looking to pull off one final con in hopes of finally paying off her debt to her bo ...more

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Nov 08, 2020 Kyra Leseberg (Roots & Reads) rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc

4.5 stars

The Lady Upstairs is the twisty noir I needed in 2020!

Jo was recruited by Lou to blackmail the Hollywood elite: the lecherous movie producers, actors, and politicians are brought down with scandalous photos that they’re willing to pay big money to keep hush hush. Their boss, known only as The Lady Upstairs, carefully chooses the targets and pockets a large portion of the pay-out.
Jo and Lou keep an office to appear as a respectable staffing agency; no questions are asked about the women ...more

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Dec 20, 2020 Natalie M rated it did not like it

Shelves: crime

There was little I could connect to with this book.

The characters elicited no sympathy and I even began to wish for their demise; they seemed very one-dimensional. The plot is convoluted in an unnecessary and illogical way. The twist was predictable within the first few chapters too. The setting, Hollywood, should have made the premise of the story stronger but it fell flat in too many ways.

The blurb made it sound intriguing but the reality was that I was very happy to be finished with this nov ...more

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Nov 17, 2020 Katherine rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020

The Lady Upstairs is a feminist noir thriller about power and revenge, and how easy it is to lose yourself to both.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. The opinions in this review are honest and my own.

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Dec 13, 2020 Sandra ~ ♥ Cross My Heart ♥ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: netgally-arc, arc-publisher, mystery-thriller

The Lady Upstairs is a dark, provocative, modern day noir thriller about women doling out vigilante-style justice in the form of blackmail to some powerful men in Hollywood with questionable ethics. The story has a decidedly feminist voice with the boss aka the lady upstairs deciding which men need knocking off their pedestal for violating a code of conduct. Lou, the only woman who knows the identity of the "lady", serves as the liaison between her and the working girls. Our protagonist Jo has a ...more

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Jun 18, 2020 Cece (ProblemsOfaBookNerd) marked it as tbr-unreleased

Shelves: lgbtqia, anticipated-of-2020

yoooo this book is sapphic, let's go gays!!!
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Aug 16, 2020 charlotte, (½ of readsrainbow) rated it liked it

Shelves: let-s-talk-diversity, 3-stars, mystery-thriller, i-put-the-b-in-lgbt, adult-lit, f-lgbt, lgbt, review-copies

Behind me, the ocean kept its own counsel because nature is far wiser than any of us and who knows what sleeps under its waters. I bet you anything the ocean itself couldn’t even tell you.

On my blog.

Rep: bi mc, bi side character

CWs: death, murder, alcohol and drug abuse

Galley provided by publisher

The Lady Upstairs is, in all honesty, a difficult one for me to review. I liked it, definitely, but I wasn’t so engrossed by it that I couldn’t put it down. It was a good thriller, but I saw too ...more

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Nov 29, 2020 Erin marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, i-won-it-in-a-giveaway

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Apr 12, 2020 Rach rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020

Our main character is Jo who works for The Lady while paying her debt off to The Lady. They find the perfect girl to seduce a powerful man (they tend to be horrible men) and then proceed to blackmail them for money.

One job that Jo is involved ends up in murder which leads to secrets being revealed.

I would say this book learns towards the Noir genre.

This is a gritty, fast paced thriller/noir with a few surprises and a intriguing main character who blurs the line between good and bad.

A excelle ...more

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May 09, 2020 Sarah rated it really liked it

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Happy Reading, friends!

Special thanks to Putman for providing our copy in exchange for an honest & fair review.

This is a really interesting book & it took me several days to gather my thoughts about it.

I couldn't put this book down. The plot simmers. We know we will eventually meet The Lady Upstairs face to face, but I wanted to get there ASAP. I don't really know if the pay-off is there, but i ...more

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Nov 13, 2020 JANELLE || WHATSHESEEES rated it liked it

Shelves: thrillers-mysteries, dnf

Thank you Putnam Books for the gifted copy!

This one just totally missed the mark for me.
I started reading it after putting Addie LaRue down for a break and ended up finishing it in one night.

I sat on reviewing it because I wanted to make sure that Addie didn’t effect my overall opinion on how I felt about it, but I now know that it just wasn’t what I was expecting with the title “The Lady Upstairs”

I always go in blind when it comes to a book and really thought this book was going to be differ ...more

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Dec 23, 2019 Amy rated it it was amazing

Devoured this one! Sutton is a gorgeous writer & this was a twisty & delightful, gritty, luscious read. Can’t wait to read more by her!

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Jan 19, 2021 Chandra Claypool (WhereTheReaderGrows) rated it liked it

A group of women "living to take down terrible men". Sold! As expected, we get a read about sex, blackmail and revenge. Jo is our flawed protagonist who loves her job but is desperate for the money as she has pressing debts to pay off. Plus, it keeps her close to Lou, who she clearly is in love with and is hoping to run off into the sunset with her at some point. But first, she needs to get herself sorted and this is no easy task.

While I love the premise of this and felt it started strong, the m ...more

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Aug 23, 2020 Rosie Danan rated it it was amazing

I was lucky enough to secure an ARC after screaming on social media about how much I NEEDED one and pals, I am obsessed with this book. Within pages, it became one of my favorite reads—not only of hell year 2020—but EVER.

A booze-soaked, twisty, captivating noir that doesn’t center cis-het men, THE LADY UPSTAIRS both reclaims a classic narrative and fully infuses it with fresh voice and a new story trajectory.

The prose is visceral, poignant, and sharp as a knife. I loved the quiet moments as mu ...more

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Jun 21, 2020 Jeremy Stewart rated it it was amazing

☕🕶️"𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬"🕶️☕
𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘜𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛
𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: 293(𝑎𝑟𝑐)
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 11/17/2020
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 📕📕📕📕📕
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This is the author's debut novel. This book has a stunning cover.
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𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: This was one hell of a thriller. We follow Jo who's job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles. This book took me on a wild ride. I've never read a book like this before. This book gave me Mafia/mob vibes. I've never read a thriller that included murder, ...more

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Jan 10, 2021 Nev rated it liked it

Shelves: 2021, lgbtqiap

I’m bummed. I thought I was going to LOVE this book… but it ended up just being kinda okay. Like, a modern day noir story about women who blackmail and take down awful men? Sign me up!! However, the story never ended up being as compelling as I hoped it would be based on that synopsis.

The main character Jo was just really bland and the overall plot felt a little bit slow and convoluted. I felt like I didn’t know enough about Jo or the other characters to be invested in their stories. Something ...more

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Nov 24, 2020 Geonn Cannon rated it liked it

I ended up really disliking this book. Too predictable, and the main character couldn't decide if she was brutal and cold or desperate and pushed into a corner. I spent the first half thinking I just didn't enjoy the narrator (she was definitely, without a doubt, the wrong choice for this book... just way too upbeat and chipper for the tone) but by the end it was just too predictable. Rounded up from 2.5 because I think my opinion was tainted by the miscast narration. ...more

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Mar 28, 2020 Jannelies added it

Shelves: edelweiss-2020, dnf

I'm sorry but this is not for me. I just cannot get into the story or the characters. ...more

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Jan 07, 2021 Stefanie rated it it was ok

The lighting is dim, a soft glow reflecting off the deep mahogany of the wooden bar. You twirl the drink in your hand, the ice clinking against the glass. As you take a slow sip, the whiskey burning the back of your throat, you keep your eye on the couple across the room. She seems to be working her charm, he’s hanging on her every word. You set the glass down and a twenty for the bartender and make your way outside to wait.

The Lady Upstairs really fell flat for me. Essentially it’s about a grou ...more

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Nov 04, 2020 Brittany (bookthingswithbrittany) rated it liked it

Shelves: arcs

Thank you so much for the gifted book @putnambooks 😍

First off, this cover is stunning. I am obsessed.

Second, The premise of this book was intriguing and I was hooked from the start. I have never read a book featuring a female character whose job was to find and take down terrible men..... but I love the idea 😅

I will say that there were times when this book did get a little repetitive. I had a love hate relationship with many of the characters, and although I didn’t really connect to any of the ...more

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Jan 06, 2021 Nik's Nook rated it liked it

Jo makes a living by setting up and taking down men who abuse their power. She works for the enigmatic Lady Upstairs. She quite enjoys what she does and the life she lives, but, when one of the marks ends up dead and Jo begins to realize the police are looking closely at her, she realizes that she needs to begin to look closely at someone else: the Lady Upstairs.

This debut started out really strong. The storyline is timely and interesting. I did feel that, at times, it was a bit repetitive, but ...more

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Dec 07, 2020 Ashley Winstead rated it it was amazing

WOW. What a sharp, sexy, delicious book. Halley Sutton's writing cuts like a knife--there were moments throughout where I had to pause and re-read a sentence because it was just that good, that smart, and twisted that deep into my heart. Sutton's storytelling is masterful, and the plot sails forward, propelled by dark, smart, marshmellow-center Jo (yes, I am quoting VMars--fellow fans, jump on this book), and the people she loves and hates, who she pushes away and pulls in in equal measure.

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Oct 07, 2020 Dan rated it it was ok

Shelves: crime

Disclosure: I received a netgalley of this book on my Kindle in exchange for an honest review. I was excited to get to preview this book. This is the first time a publisher has asked this of me and allowed me to do this except for when I was working as an editor for a publishing company, which was completely different. Since I have to give the book just two stars, it may be the last time a publisher asks this of me. I truly wanted to give the book a higher rating, but GoodReads' three star ratin Disclosure: I received a netgalley of this book on my Kindle in exchange for an honest review. I was excited to get to preview this book. This is the first time a publisher has asked this of me and allowed me to do this except for when I was working as an editor for a publishing company, which was completely different. Since I have to give the book just two stars, it may be the last time a publisher asks this of me. I truly wanted to give the book a higher rating, but GoodReads' three star rating means one "liked it." That does not describe my reaction to this book.

First, the good news about the book. It is well-structured and well-written. The plot makes sense, the problem is presented at the beginning, and the pacing is done reasonably well, except the 10-44% part of the book where nothing really happens. But then at that 44% point, something does, and the plot moves along great after that. There is suspense as we wonder if the protagonist will succeed. The situation is mildly interesting, and the characters are convincingly and realistically presented.

So, what's the problem? That takes a little explanation. The book's premise is that there are a lot of jerks in Hollywood, big shot producers and the like, who are unfaithful to their wives, and, who knows, probably mistreat their pets too. The protagonist is here to set things right, get some justice from these despicable bigshots. How does she want to do this? She wants to screw them, literally, in a kinky way hopefully, and then blackmail them, threatening to expose their infidelities and deviant predilections to the public and the bigshots' family members. Our protagonist is surrounded by like-minded "friends" who help her by keeping the hidden camera rolling and assist with other logistics of the blackmailing.

Perhaps you can already see my problem with the premise from the way I have stated it. But in case you can not, I'll spell it out. In every novel the protagonist is good in some way and has to be trying to achieve something worthwhile. This "good" I refer to doesn't mean the protagonist is perfect. A protagonist can be seriously flawed, vexed by inner demons, struggling against bad features of her personality, less than competent, what have you. But at some level, in some inner core, there has to be something we can root for in the protagonist, something we can hope she achieves. There's nothing like that for me in this novel.

An author has wide latitude in portraying a protagonist's flaws because we the reader are getting the story from the protagonist's perspective and naturally want to be on the protagonist's side. There are limits, however, and here Sutton exceeds them. This protagonist has no morally redeeming features whatsoever. It doesn't matter that the people she is trying to harm are also morally repugnant. Sutton, by the way, doesn't even do a very convincing job of depicting the antagonists as being all that bad. She sort of assumes they are and that we will agree with her. Cheating on one's spouse is never cool, but given the temptation and manipulation these cheaters are subjected to by the protagonist, I can partially excuse them. If nothing else, the punishment the protagonist metes out to the blackmail victims certainly exceeds the parameters of their crime. The author, I suspect, disagrees, and probably thinks the blackmail perfectly just, leading me to wonder if Ms. Sutton may be trying to achieve some form of catharsis from feeling wronged by a cheater in her past. In any event, the wish fulfillment fantasy of the author's this novel may portray is not working to her advantage.

Since the protagonist is basically rotten to the core and trying to achieve one unworthy goal after another, including getting away with murder, the entire novel, however well-written, structured, and carefully plotted it may be, breaks down. That's why you see some reviewers saying they could not finish the book and that it was just too sordid. In books with this kind of failing, and thankfully they're rare, reviewers complain about how there are no likable characters. Here, the protagonist is not likable and no one around her is either. Also, the goals the protagonist is trying to achieve, except for one (survival) which is never seriously threatened, are completely unworthy.

Even though I give this book a low rating, a number of people will enjoy it. They will overlook the moral bankruptcy portrayed by the protagonist and extend her the well wishes a protagonist of any novel gets just from being placed within that role by a novel's structure. If you can do that, and many younger people brought up on reality TV no doubt can, then the novelty of the plot and the good writing will carry you through to the end of the book and provide a satisfying reading experience for you. I did not enjoy the book, although its strengths makes me give it a two star rating of okay. I was unable to feel any sympathy, empathy, or kind wishes for the disgusting specimen of humanity this bottom-feeding protagonist represented. ...more

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Nov 21, 2020 The Goodreads Darling rated it did not like it

Shelves: disapointments-of-2020, 2020-reads, popular-thrillers-read-2020

Um..........................
I Did Not Like This Book
I Thought It Was Boring And Just Slow To Get Into
I Will Never Read This Again Or Another Book This Author
Because This Book Was Just Not My Favorite

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Nov 17, 2020 Sascha rated it liked it

Shelves: edelweiss-2020

After going through a dry spell, I picked up Halley Sutton’s The Lady Upstairs and dove right in, relieved my dry spell was over with good writing. Unfortunately, while The Lady Upstairs shows a lot of promise, it doesn’t always deliver.

One of the main reasons for me as to why The Lady Upstairs doesn’t deliver is its main character, Jo. Now Jo is hard-drinking and cynical with a soft side, and she’s a blackmailer. While you would think that anyone who sets out to blackmail wealthy, important tho ...more

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Dec 05, 2020 Lubnaa (Romance Library) rated it did not like it

Shelves: thriller-and-or-mystery, did-not-finish, arc, 2020

DNF @ Chapter 5

I received a finished copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I tried. I really did. This is the second book I've DNF'd in a row and now I feel like crap lol. I deserve an award for trying two debut authors in a row. I'm gonna go straight to Jeaniene Frost after this because I want to read and finish one good book, damn it!

The Lady Upstairs has an incredible concept. Jo, the main character, works for a mysterious boss who goes by the name "The Lady ...more

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