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The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

51 reviews

rachelpacz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Classism, and Deportation

sweetteaandfiction's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The Paris Apartment by @lucyfoleyauthor was an interesting and at times confusing but overall intriguing read. 

PROS: 
💻The twist left me with lots of theories, but I still didn’t see the exacts of that ending. 
📝I stayed on the edge of my seat trying to play detective 
💻That apartment building was described perfectly. I want to live there. 
📝The Concierge 
💻The fact I didn’t like anyone and wasn’t rooting for anyone, BUT I still just HAD to know. 

CONS: 
📝The jump from POV to POV every chapter and the movement from memory to present was just a lot. It added more to the confusion than helping lead me to the truth. 
💻There are some extremely heavy topics. Smex trafficking and forced smex work is something that will never get easier for me to read. 
📝Not enough cat content 

🐱🐱🐱🐱 out of five bloody kitten paws for the way that ending had my jaw on the floor 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

macint0046's review

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? It's complicated

4.5

Loved this book, great pacing and well written characters. It’s rare for the ending of a mystery to catch me off guard, but this one went above and beyond to mystify me to the very end. 

I’m a fan of Foley’s work, and I’d say this is one of her best. Definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys a thrilling mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Child death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

wickedgrumpy's review

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

1.25

...Yet another thriller that I did not enjoy.  It was filled with characters that had one main facet which was being awful.  Would not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lexithelion's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is such a good mystery. I love Lucy Foley's style of writing multi-perspective books as it makes you question what you really know about the characters. She is great at leading you off the scent of what actually happened to Ben, and the mystery is written perfectly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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: Violence, Vomit, and Trafficking

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

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

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

lizzie_maxfield's review

mysterious 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

Graphic: Drug use, Infertility, Sexual violence, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault

brookey8888's review

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