Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

248 reviews

gohan's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

There’s a lot of time spent building everything up for it to all fall into place in the end. The first part of the book is fairly slow but picks up later on. It didn’t fully live up to expectations but was an easy and engaging read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicide

craftygal'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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse, Blood, Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Miscarriage

hippiequeen's review

dark tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Blood

mi_bean'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Murder, Addiction, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Self harm, and Drug abuse

imlfox's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Blood, and Sexual harassment

katierosecrane's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This book had interesting perspectives through the characters. I liked that the chapters were short and the writing style flowed well through out the book, keep pushing me through the book. The mystery side of things I found a little predictable, but I think the author used that on purpose because while I did predict some things I didn't predict everything that happened in the climax. 

Has Salt Burn vibes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Deportation, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Vomit, Infidelity, Murder, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Stalking, Addiction, Infertility, Gore, Death, Alcohol, Cursing, Police brutality, Blood, Classism, and Outing

kathlynnsell's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Abandonment, Body horror, Murder, Violence, and Sexual content

kpitsker's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Trafficking

resellmaven's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The overall plot and twists were great, I enjoyed the character development as well as the multiple perspective story telling. The characters were tough to root for and I felt the book was drawn out. I think there were chapters and about an hour of reading that could have been removed and it would not have affected the story. There were many moments throughout the book where the concept of what had happened was very clear but then it would be brought up later as if we were supposed to be shocked at learning that information and that made it just drag on. I did not expect it to end the way it did and it was a nice surprise.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Death of parent, Blood, and Suicide

taylordestefano's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

I’m glad I stuck this one out for the ending, but the story as a whole was full of unnecessary information that took away from the actual plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Sexual assault