Review: Beware of the Men Upstairs
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2012
"The Men Upstairs" is my introduction to Tim Waggoner, and it's a firm-handshake pat-on-the-back look-you-directly-in-the-eye kind of greeting.The premise is simple enough: A middle-aged man comes upon a beautiful shoeless twentysomething woman crying in the lobby of a movie theater. He reluctantly confronts her, ends up taking her to his apartment, and they begin to develop a relationship over the next few weeks. However, the girl has a mysterious past, a powerful sexuality, and is roughly the same age as the man's daughter. But when the employees of the Sons of Babel rent the apartment right above his, reeking of alcohol, and making loud noises late into the night, well...things get really weird from there.Part horror, part mystery, and all love story, Waggoner displays a knack for showing you exactly what is happening, but manages to create suspense and intrigue concurrently. This is truly one of those stories where I had no idea what was going to happen next...and I loved it.