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The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

113 reviews

lolohedrick's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.0

I really enjoyed this one!! Kept my interest and kept me guessing the whole way through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

jkull_10's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cnannery19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

folklorisms's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

i honestly don’t have much to say except i read this book in one sitting and it kept me from playing fallout, which is quite a feat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

stevienotnicks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

Lucy Foley sure does have a thing for dysfunctional families and I don’t hate that. 

While sometimes difficult to follow, the multiple POV, multiple timeline flow of this story really kept me on my toes as a reader. You almost need to construct an FBI style suspect board to keep it all straight. 

Despite having dozens of characters, each was brought to life on the page, no matter how small the role. The attention to detail offered vivid descriptions of their mannerisms, scents, and accents that helped develop each personality as well as further the plot. 

Interestingly, I had it solved early on, but I dismissed my original theory because it seemed too predictable. I believe some will be very surprised with the twist, while fans of the genre will most likely find it slightly derivative. 

The pacing did leave a lot to be desired. At times, it felt like entire chapters were irrelevant or repetitive. She probably could have cut 50 or so pages and still had enough time to develop the story thoroughly. 

Still, I did really enjoy the characters and twists and would recommend this to fans of murder mysteries. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, and Murder

dr_al_mal's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

When I can find a book that keeps me guessing until the very end, I cherish it. This novel exceeded my expectations with its complexity and depth. I’m a tough critic of mystery novels, and I will be the first to admit that in this genre, it is hard to impress me. 

I. Am. IMPRESSED. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

kaylaochs's review

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Pregnancy

sh0rtc4k3's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Fun, well thought-out, great twists and turns, wonderful delving into different characters; did suffer from swapping POV’s too much at climactic/charged moments which imo messes with your tension, but did great at utilizing POV cuts and flash backs to provide cliffhangers and control what information we know when 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

te_ss_i's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

She guesses an alphanumeric password for a guy she just met on, like, the 3rd try? 

No. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

anna_wiskerchen's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I’d say 3.5 stars.
I don’t think this was Lucy‘s best book (my favorite is still Guest List), but I think it was very well written. She definitely knows how to captivate her audience and make them wanting more, because I certainly couldn’t turn the audiobook off. She’s very good at leading up to intense moments. I feel like The Paris Apartments could’ve been a lot shorter, a lot of the chapters were just fluff and extra story that we didn’t really need, but it was fun to know I guess. The ending….I did not see coming, you could kind of tell who the killer might be, but it wasn’t super clear why, which was fun to guess along with each chapter. But then ending and the why was pretty epic. Looking forward to reading more of Lucy Foley’s books!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse

Talks about police husband abusing wife