The Paris Apartment

Over the top but it was fast paced and with the short chapters was easy to read but ultimately forgettable. Excellent narration by cast.

Not bad, it did leave you wondering what was really happening.

I enjoyed this, well written and played, though not as impressive as the Guest List

Loved the twists and turns! Once I got into it, it was a most enjoyable read.

Sloooow starter, not much suspense or mystery built up, but a good ending.

Awesome book-I really enjoy an amateur sleuth angle! It kept me captivated until the end! Narrators were great.

I was a bit unsure whether I would enjoy this book when I started it - I often don’t do well with stories that go back-and-forth in time and between characters, finding them difficult to follow. Not the case with “The Paris Apartment”. I got into this easily, and quickly became invested in Jess’s mission to find her brother, trying to work out which characters were trustworthy, just as she did. This book only became more and more thrilling as it went along and more secrets were revealed. Loved it! Now onto more Lucy Foley thrillers…

Dull and very unexciting. It was missing a little something.

Very interesting, glues the reader to an amazing curiosity of what's next, absolutely love it and can recommend it. It took me back to my school days where reading novels was a tradition and I look forward to reading more.

I love the story, the pilot twists, it left me at the edge of my seat, I really enjoyed the book, and find audacious the structure of the narrative, however having too many narrators specially in the beginning when the reader is not used to the characters makes it a bit confusing.

Fast moving but a little bit daft. Not on par with The Hunting Party or The Guest List.

Good narration grom the cast.

Really enjoyed this Story! Brilliant description of characters. Never thought I would enjoy a first person narration of each character but it totally works. Storyline and plot are full of twists too. Highly recommended book.

I absolutely loved the guest list and the hunting party.. unfortunately this one barely kept my interest... i thought about giving up a few times but I persisted to the end. I'm still not 100% sure what happened I switched off a lot...

Nothing special. Pretty well crafted though I anticipated the twist far too early. Jess's voice is strong and the character of Nick has some interesting shades. I do wonder how you write a book set in Paris and use an all-white cast.

3.75 stars
Lucy Foley is one of those authors that writes a book full of characters that I love to hate and that's so much fun for me. This was no exception, these people are something else, and you aren't sure if you want to see bad things happen to them or if you want to them to somehow grow and redeem themselves. This one had more twists that I wasn't expecting which made it even better. Your life won't change by reading this book, but it is a fun escape.

20% into the book and there is hardly any character development. We've barely met Ben. Other tenants in the building, brief cursory introductions. We've spent most of the time with Ben's sister Jess, but we don't really know her yet either. There needs to be something more by this point in a story, gave up here.

Creepy and disturbing page-turner with a too-quick, too-convenient, disappointingly written ending. The tension builds and builds, and then…pbbbbbpppptttt. But entertaining enough.

This is probably the worst book I have read in the last 15 years during which I have read over 700 books. Hard to believe that this author has a great reputation for this genre. A mystery should be a mystery with somewhat believable plot twists. The writing style should be pleasant and keep your interest. This book was set in Paris and Foley kept using French phrases and then translating them immediately afterword. 368 pages of this!! Jess the main character had no back story to support her ability to search for his missing half brother. How anyone could think that this was a thriller. Also the portrayal of Paris as this dark place with danger behind every corner was totally not the Paris I know. I finished it trying to see if it could be saved but the ending was ridiculous. DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!!

I found this book too dark for my taste. The family was so dysfunctional. Sorry.

This is a pretty good thriller. I do get a bit tired of weak lead female characters and some of the twists were predictable, but all in all it held my attention well and the ending was unexpected.

This was a great story.
There is a problem with the audio in chapter 70 where it skips a chunk, not sure how much, and then the chapters are out of whack. Would be great if it was fixed.

2.5 rounded up. Another mystery novel down for 2022, but this one was kind of a disappointment. I almost didn't finish it. It took me two months to finally drudge through it because it could not ever seem to hold my attention.

The premise of the story is that Jess, fleeing from her life in London, comes to Paris to stay with her brother. While she’s traveling to him he goes missing, only leaving behind a very vague clue hidden in a voice message that quite literally takes her two days to listen to.

Jess doesn’t ever seem to be actually worried about actually finding her brother with how often she gets distracted by other things in the apartment. None of her clues lead her to why her brother might be missing except about maybe 65% into the book. The other half of the book just goes into how mysterious (snooty) the other tenants are and how Jess doesn’t fit in. Also goes into detail about their sex lives for I guess reasons? (shrug)

I’m disappointed, because I LOVED The Guest List , and I wanted this book to be just as good. But the mystery of this novel seems to just get lost in the exposition of backstory and no forward progress is made for the majority of the book.

I was not impressed by this novel at first, but s the story progressed things became more and more twisted and surprising. Jess goes to stay with her brother in Paris, but finds he has disappeared. Everyone in his upscale apartment house seems suspect. The deeper she digs, the stranger they seem to be.

Lucy Foley writes outstanding mystery thrillers and she’s back with one that meets the expectations set by the previous books. Jess arrives in Paris to find her brother missing. He’s offered her a place to live while she gets her life together. She can get into her brother's apartment and finds there’s a creepy secret hidden by the family who lives there. The more she looks for the answer to her missing brother the more she finds herself in danger with no idea who to believe. And when she discovers the secret the wealthy family who lives in the apartment building is hiding, it becomes front page news in the Paris papers.

OTT; my disbelief could not remain suspended.

Well, I was on board with the sort of spooky theme of the book until it all unraveled at the end. Not the way I thought it would go. Melodramatic.

This book has one hell of a hook and will keep you guessing. Even when I correctly guessed some of the parts there were twists on top of that so I was constantly surprised. Not quite as strong as her first thriller, The Guest List, but still a solid read that will keep readers engaged. When Jess needs to get away from her life for a bit she calls up her brother and asks to crash at his Paris apartment. He reluctantly agrees to allow her to stay, but when she arrives at his apartment building he is not there to let her in. Where has he gone? She finagles her way into the apartment eventually, and is shocked to see the cat covered in blood and a strong smell of bleach in the apartment. Whatever happened to her brother probably isn't good. She decides to start asking the people in the surrounding apartments if they know anything, but things keep taking weirder turns. What is going on? Twisty and dark. Some elements are easy to suss out and others are completely surprising.

 A good vacation read, but I didn’t like it as much as The Guest List. A twisty thriller with some good surprises, but it was missing a character to root for. They were all so self-absorbed and broken it was hard to care about what happened to them. It was a quick read though and kept me interested.

This book! This book y’all! I know so many reader friends have The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley as one of your can’t wait books of 2022. Less than a week until you can get your copy on 2/22/22 (love that date!) and it’s so, so good! In need of a new start Jess heads to Paris to stay with her half brother Ben. She doesn’t remember a yes when she asked, but it wasn’t a no. When Jess arrives something, everything, is off. Ben is missing, living in a flat far too upscale for a journalist writing restaurant reviews, and the neighbors are all hiding something. Told from alternating points of view, as Jess tries to find Ben we begin to learn what he was doing there, who lives in the building, his relationship to each of them, and how they connect. There’s a man missing but a lot of other questions. Is anything, or anyone, what they seem? How do you define and redefine yourself, others? How tight are the bonds of family and how do we define them? What will we forsake of ourselves, of others, to illuminate (or hide) the truth?In this closed door mystery Lucy Foley does a phenomenal job pacing, building each character, revealing information in a nonlinear way so the reader never feels quite at ease. The major twists do not come when you expect leaving you coasting when you anticipate a cliff, and without footing when you thought you were just connecting minor points. It’s expertly done making this unputdownable! I loved every minute. I give this my highest recommendation for lovers of thrillers and suspense, fiction readers who love whodunnit, and buddy reads because you’re going to want to talk about this with someone!My sincere thanks to William Marrow who kindly sent me an Advanced Reader Copy and the opportunity to read and review The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. All opinions are my own.

This was a slow-moving psychological thriller. It just didn't click with me for some reason - I didn't hate the book but I also wouldn't go out of my way to read it or recommend it. I didn't really connect with the characters and found all of them to be very unlikeable. I would have liked more of a backstory for Jess and Ben. That being said the writing is good and I am sure Lucy Foley fans will enjoy it. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC.