Jane was running from something in Arizona and running right into more trouble even though she didn't know it would be trouble.

Jane walks dogs for wealthy people, and one of the neighbors whose wife along with her friend drowned bought a dog so he could get close to Jane.

Jane jumped at the chance to walk Eddie Rochester's dog because she knew she could make him love her and be his next wife. Was she getting herself into something worse than what she left in Arizona?

For Jane, the rich, catty women were the worst, but Jane was getting her plan to work and into place. She nabbed a rich man; now all she had to do was become his wife.

Did Eddie have plans of his own, though, are they already in the works, or have they been carried out?

Then a wrench gets thrown in - the police find out his wife's friend was murdered, and they think Eddie's wife was too.

What will happen next? A lot happens.

Everyone in this book seems to have a secret, and they are ones that may be difficult to keep. They also are pretty good liars.

I would be sure to put this book in your TBR....it is that good. 5/5

This book was given to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Rachel Hawkins has written several young adult novels. THE WIFE UPSTAIRS is her first attempt at an adult novel. But I found its reading level to be YA with lots of swearwords and a little sex added to make it adult.

"Jane" has a secret. First of all, that’s not her real name. Little by little as the book goes on, more and more of her secret is divulged.

I’m not sure if we’re supposed to like Jane or if she is a joke. She works as a dog walker in a very swanky neighborhood, where she resents all her clients because they have more than she does. Apparently, she feels that a dog walker should make as much as a business owner. Whatever.

She does manage to snag a man who lives there, though. Little does she know, this is a guy with an even bigger secret, a wife upstairs.

As the book continues, it is sometimes told from Jane‘s perspective and sometimes from the perspective of the wife upstairs. Whenever we hear from Jane, she is usually proclaiming her bitter resentment of everyone who lives in the neighborhood where she has chosen to live herself.

Sometime after Chapter 30, we finally hear from the man with the wife upstairs. And this is the point where the book gets interesting.

Obviously, I am not impressed with THE WIFE UPSTAIRS. It is too full of silly resentment of people who can afford to live in a nice neighborhood. Boo-hoo.

If you heard that this book is modeled after JANE EYRE, forget about it. It’s not even close.

I won this book through bookclubcookbook.com.

It was slow. All of the action was in the last 60 pages.

Predictable, whiny characters, could have been really good. Never fully got to where it needed to go.