The Girl Before

Before I tell you how this book has changed my book life I want to take a minute to thank JP Delaney and Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine for my advanced copy of The Girl Before. Thank you so much for giving me this gem, it will now be a book I recommend to any person who will listen. I have read that this book was compared to Gone Girl and I did read Gone Girl but I have to say this is in a league of its own!
The first thing I thought when I picked this up was okay who is the girl before and how are Emma and Jane connected to her. This oddly enough starts with a flat, One Folgate Street seems to be the perfect place for those wanting a decent home, yet can't afford one. But how far are people willing to go to have the perfect and affordable place to live? What will you give up and how simplistic can you be? The house is designed to measure everything that the tenants have to do and how they live. This computer system, called Housekeeper had several beneficial aspects to the home owner...recognizing who was in the shower, and their water preferences, noticing the amount of REM sleep they got, checking their stress levels. This system is also in my opinion a way of a Punishment inflicted by the narcistic over obsessive landlord Edward who by the end of this whiplash rollercoaster of a book you will Love to hate yet still connect to by the time you get off the ride. Each Possible Tenant is put through a vigrious application process designed to enhance Edwards odd tendencies.
First you meet Emma a broken shattered soul who moves into the flat with the supposed love of her life Simon. Their story is short lived and Emma is swept up in the persona of Edward just the way years later Jane will be. I refuse to go into this any further then I already have but I will say if you choose to spend money on a book in 2017 this is the book to do it on! Hands down a 5 Star read. The only thing I wish I knew was who the author is behind the pseudonym so I could read more books form them! I can't wait to see this one unfold as a MOTION PICTURE!