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The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

73 reviews

graceeanderson17's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

_ami_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The amount of times I visibly gasped in excitement and disgust is great, with the twists that I half expected and didn't see coming at all. It's just brilliant. And the audiobook with the various of voice actors switching for each POV??? My god, chief's kiss.

Bury me with this book like how they buried that body.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Addiction, Death of parent, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Suicide, Slavery, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Deportation, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Fatphobia, and Infertility

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

It did tire me a bit more than the other two books (The Hunting Party and The Guest List).  It think it wasn't very well balanced, almoat nothing happened for the two thirds of the book and then an avalanches of events in the last third. The main characters needed a bit more work, they were a bit weak. But I liked the ending (well kind of), and I had a good time 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Slavery, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Murder, Blood, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

paperkindle's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

elisalasater's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Stalking, and Infidelity

Minor: Infertility, Gun violence, Deportation, Suicide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

kkopacetic's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Misogyny

gillianengelbrecht's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicide, Drug abuse, Deportation, Cursing, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Physical abuse, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Gore, Trafficking, Self harm, and Pregnancy

bookcheshirecat's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

2.5

“It’s not about where you came from. What kind of shit might have happened to you in the past. It’s about who you are. What you do with the opportunities life presents to you.”

➽ This was my first Lucy Foley book and I'm unimpressed! The Paris Apartment is about Jess, who's down on her luck and hoping to stay a few days with her half-brother in Paris. When she ends up arriving at his apartment, Jess finds out that Ben's nowhere to be seen and might be missing. Something isn't right with the apartment complex and she plans to find out what happened to her brother. This book was painfully boring. Even the multi-cast audiobook couldn't save it. I didn't find the multiple POVs compelling and some perspectives were so offputting. The mystery was bland and I didn't find any of the characters memorable. I remember one of them being a teen girl and it was strangely vulgar at times. The author also did a thing where she left her scenes on a huge cliffhanger but then the next chapter is so underwhelming. She wants to convince you that something horrible is happening to the character, but it always turns out fine and more like a misunderstanding. After the first couple of times, it got on my nerves so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Body shaming, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Pregnancy, Rape, Homophobia, and Police brutality

kyrstin_p1989's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I almost DNF’d this which I never do because it was so slow — it felt like nothing at all happened for the first 150 pages or so. The end picked up and was actually really good, which saved this book from being a 1 or 2 star. I didn’t see a lot of what happened coming but not because of the mystery, just because it felt like nothing at all was revealed at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Torture, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Confinement, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Sexual violence

malloryhill10's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail