Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

25 reviews

crystalleighwrites's review

dark mysterious 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? No

3.5

An interesting exploration in multiple first person pov narrative. The first half felt very slow and some of the “secrets” were telegraphed early on so suspense was taken out of those. 
Picked up in second half. Overall, a good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

zosiablue'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

3.5

OK first, there a scene where two characters make out after being tear gassed and I'm upset because this happened to me IRL and I was saving it for MY novel! It's really bizarre to kiss someone who's just been tear gassed! Anyway,

Fun enough! Paris, weird Succession-style family, Eyes Wife Shut-esque night club, a whippet named Benoit, lots of incidental French, murder, mystery, pastries. Agatha Christie locked room style like Foley does well. I would like a whippet, a croissant, and a cigarette now please.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Suicide

neurospicyreader's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

I'm stuck between 2 and 3 stars. It was fine, but I didn't really connect with the story. I finished it quickly because I had to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

4.5 Stars
CAWPILE = 7.93

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

julied'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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

kt2e56'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

An interesting set up! Unfortunately, some shoddy performances (Mimi and The Concierge both stand out) and some truly baffling “twists” with a laughable amount of plot holes sort of takes away from what could have been an interesting mystery. 

I think hiring actual French voice actors (or in the case of The Concierge, an Albanian voice actor) would have helped quite a bit.

I also don’t believe for a second that there was any chemistry or romance between Jess and Theo so that was pretty funny to have them just fuck randomly in a bathroom.

Speaking of Jess, she was Bella Swan levels of bland which was extra apparent when other characters would try and describe her as “fiery” or “brave” or “in love with danger.” She’s quite literally none of those things? She’s just a blank slate protagonist that spends all of her time moping.

Another chemistry issue was between

Sophie and Mimi. By the end, suddenly Sophie is supposed to be a warm, doting, devoted mother? Even though for 99% of the book she doesn’t mention having children (step or otherwise) and Mimi goes on and on about her issues with her father but also never once mentions that she has a mother that she’s super close with? Really? I think the author picked the family twist without putting any actual effort into executing it realistically because it really just doesn’t hold up. At all.

This was a big disappointment for me. I’ve seen it hyped up and it really did have me interested in those first few chapters but it just seemed to spiral out of control from the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

franklola's review

adventurous mysterious fast-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

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Deportation

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Coming off the back of another mystery/thriller (Verity by Colleen Hoover), The Paris Apartment was much more satisfying. It was less gripping, but I felt I understood the characters much better, even if I didn't particularly like most of them...especially Mimi's obnoxious whining. It was also more thrilling for its realism—I could imagine this story being true, even if it isn't. The voice actors for this multi-perspective audiobook were fantastic as well!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

thefaultismine's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Biphobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

breezer's review against another edition

mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

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