Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

221 reviews

_ami_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

The amount of times I visibly gasped in excitement and disgust is great, with the twists that I half expected and didn't see coming at all. It's just brilliant. And the audiobook with the various of voice actors switching for each POV??? My god, chief's kiss.

Bury me with this book like how they buried that body.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Addiction, Death of parent, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Suicide, Slavery, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Deportation, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Fatphobia, and Infertility

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

It did tire me a bit more than the other two books (The Hunting Party and The Guest List).  It think it wasn't very well balanced, almoat nothing happened for the two thirds of the book and then an avalanches of events in the last third. The main characters needed a bit more work, they were a bit weak. But I liked the ending (well kind of), and I had a good time 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Slavery, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Murder, Blood, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

mj_86'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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Blood, Death, Murder, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

bessadams's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Murder, Infidelity, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Sexism, Police brutality, Sexual content, Drug use, Drug abuse, Deportation, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Suicide

h_sloan's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

bookishglitter's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

chip8401's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Murder, Sexual content, and Trafficking

michealasharp'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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Murder, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Blood

cc_shelflove's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

Man. My overall description of this book: A whole lot of talking without much investigating. Literally nothing happened for the vast majority of it. 🫠 All the way at 60%, the characters were STILL prattling on about how everything “went bad” when Ben arrived, but still nothing had been revealed! What was Ben doing? What went bad? Is this whole book just full of all of the characters complaining and disliking each other? Ahhhhh!

Now that we’ve gotten that rant out of the way, the ending was actually very good! I really liked the twist, granted it took over 300 pages to get there. Excruciatingly boring, but almost worth it, I guess? I bet there’s a lot of people who despise this book. 😅 I’ll sit right in the middle at three stars. Although I’m glad I never have to read it again. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

eliandherbooks's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

At times, it did feel a little slow (though honestly, I can’t really imagine the story progressing any differently). But overall, I really, really liked the book! It was very gripping, especially in the last half. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Murder