Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley

87 reviews

cheyrohm's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

3.75

Between a 3.5 and a 4 for this one! I thought I had it all figured out about 60% in, but it throws you a few more surprises.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide

tashtasher'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Trafficking, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Classism

brindolyn's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder, Death of parent, Violence, and Trafficking

butteredpopcourt's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual assault, Blood, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Trafficking, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

annacs's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Self harm and Sexual content

sfeldmann's review

SPOILERS

I think my soul just died before the new year. My lord, I try not to rant too hard on author’s works because they are someone’s blood sweat and tears, but this book was just not good. 

You meet the characters and honestly, none of them are people I’m invested in or want to root for. They don’t have any redeeming qualities about them. I got to the 60% of my audiobook and called it. Like after Ben kissed Mimi and then later he reveals he was listing after her mother?! I just could not continue that weirded me out more than any bloody gore ever could. I was just so uncomfortable. 

I just can’t with this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual assault

megstickz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Alcohol, and Sexual content

addyisnothere's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Injury/injury detail, Infertility, Infidelity, Drug use, Police brutality, Death, Cursing, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Suicide, Deportation, and Suicide attempt

jennyoli96's review

adventurous 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

4.0

I have to say I found the ending to be a little too... outside the box, I guess? Nevertheless, I didn't see it coming, so that's good.

Spoiler

I might have misunderstood, but I think in an earlier chapter from Nick's POV while he was chatting to Antoine, he was wondering about what happened to Ben and if maybe he'd left with Dominique? It doesn't make sense if Nick was one of the people who carried what was supposedly Ben's body, because he'd be pretty sure the guy was dead. Again, I might have misread that and if so, just ignore this bit.

I enjoyed the book overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Fatphobia, Classism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Police brutality and Trafficking

displacedcactus's review against another edition

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

This book was tawdry and not particularly enjoyable. It feels dated, the twists and tropes harkening back to decades past. What's more, it feels like the author was trying too hard to make all of the suspects, well, suspicious. The writing was just incredibly heavy-handed. I honestly think it would have benefitted greatly from making Jess the only POV character, rather than putting us into the heads of all of the suspects and thus giving us a lot more insight into what's going on.

It IS a pretty quick read, thanks to most of the chapters being only a few pages long. I can see how some people might enjoy it as a vacation read or something to devour on your commute or something. But it really didn't work for me and I won't be recommending it to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia

There's a dog and cat in the book.

Spoiler

They're both fine. Neither of them is ever even threatened.