Book Review: The Man Next Door by Sheila Roberts

 

Three Women find they're living next door to a fiction version of The Rear Window movie in Sheila Robert's The Man Next Door.

My Book Rating for The Man Next Door: 4 Stars and a Recommended Read.

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Zona never thought she would be back living with her mom, Louise, but here she was, newly divorced and having no choice right now after her gambling addicted ex-husband lost her daughter's college fund and all their savings to boot. She's determined to put her daughter through college, every clipped coupon savings to boot.

Louise didn't have a broken leg on her bingo card on the single

s cruise she was looking forward to but at least there's eye candy next-door in the form a ahunky new neighbor who is around her daughter's age and a mystery that surrounds him and the house he lives in. When the woman he was having a screaming argument goes missing, imaginations fly or so Zona hopes for her mother's sake at least.

My Book Review for The Man Next Door:

Sheila Roberts delivers a fun take on the movie The Rear Window in her new book, The Man Next Door and it delivers all the fun aspects you expect with this author's books: a fun storyline with just the right amount of heat and mystery, a romance...maybe, meddling family and drama that seems to lurk int he shadows. I love this author's books as it gives me so much fun and laughter with her many different characters to fall in love with, a backdrop of unique settings that give her books a fresh feel to them and a fast paced storyline that leaves you eager for more with each page flipped. The writing is top notch with this author's classic storytelling on display within the pages of The Man Next Door and lots of fun characters to root for. 

Meet Zona and Louise. A mother and daughter who have had life throw them curveballs one too many times and now Zona is back living with her mom, Louise, after divorcing her gambling addicted husband and Louise is laid low by a broken leg that happened on a much anticipated Senior Singles Cruise. When a new hot neighbor moves in next door, Louise is determined to see what she can find out ala the rear window and chaos happens when she spies on some incidents that may see suspicious to her but may have some real bening reasoning behind it. I love Louise Zona and Zona's daughter so much. These three generations of women had me cracking up and the emotional growth they all go on within The Man Next Door was a perfect blend of family drama, maturity and more. The characters are well written, multidimensional and you can't help but root for them till the very end of the book.

The Man Next Door is a fun and wildly entertaining story that takes the movie premise of The Rear Window and turns it on its head with a quirky bunch of characters, some wild imaginations and a true crime marathon that stokes those said imaginations into a fever pitch. If you haven't read one of these author's books before, I highly recommend The Man Next Door to get your imagination wet and fall in love with characters that will fairly have you laughing from page one to the very last page. I can't wait to see where this author goes next for her next book.