Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Het appartement by Lucy Foley

250 reviews

resellmaven's review against another edition

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 against another edition

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

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was fine, thank for it was different then her other two books. I didn’t find anything shocking and was kind of bored for the most part , but it was interesting enough for me to finish. To be honest I would probably skip this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Classism, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Blood, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

amandaparmo's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

This book was a little more of a forced read. It didn’t really get interesting for me until 3/4ths of the way through. None of the characters were very likeable and all pretty shady which left me without someone to root for. I did appreciate the way it read & having several different characters perspectives - it added to the mystery and left you questioning what was really true. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Trafficking, Suicide, and Self harm

anilourengo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

We follow Jess, who left her life in England to live with her brother Ben in Paris. When she arrives to Ben's apartment in Paris, she notices he disappeared, he isn't returning her calls and left the apartment without his wallet. So, she is convinced that something happened to her brother, and she won't stop until find what it was and where he is. She must start on his brother building, which seems to be full of weirdos. 

Unfortunately, is full of French bias, not because they are French are all promiscuous or are sexually driven... Mixing mystery with sexual content was definitely not my ally. With a big variety of personalities, I imagine a murder and identify the killer from the beginning, so most of the time I was really confused with all the sexual content, that for me was not necessary at all... Nevertheless, I didn't expect the twist at the end... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, Murder, Drug use, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death of parent, Infertility, Infidelity, Confinement, and Miscarriage

Minor: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

anissahcarlblom's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

suchallie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

Overall a good read, different from the other two I’ve read by this author. The structure was interesting. The twists and turns often outed themselves just before they happened and it picked up far too much in the last 40 pages compared to the slow burn of the rest of the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol, Murder, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, Blood, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Police brutality, Vomit, and Classism

Minor: Suicide and Domestic abuse

kiwichill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Many twists and turns which kept me in suspense.  The audiobook is narrated by different people for each character which enhances the experience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Racism, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcohol, Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Domestic abuse, Outing, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Excrement, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

chelseylb1988's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Confinement, Grief, Violence, Trafficking, Death of parent, Blood, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Murder

michimiya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Miscarriage