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And lastly, when the plot reveals finally start happening in the last quarter of the book, they weren’t interesting enough to be worth the tedious lead-up. Jess, fleeing her life in England, makes her way to Paris to crash with her charming brother, Ben. Upon her arrival in Paris, Jess receives a mysterious voice message from Ben. When she arrives at his creepy building, Ben is nowhere to be found. It appears that Ben has vanished without a trace. Jess begins investigating what could have happened to Ben, and she starts with the residents of his building. What she finds is a building with hidden secrets and residents who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets from coming out. Narrator: Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi & Charlie Anson When Jess Hadley arrives in Paris to visit her half-brother Ben (and escape an uncomfortable personal situation of her own in London), she’s surprised that he’s is nowhere to be found and that none of the neighbors in his swanky new building are terribly concerned about what’s happened to him. Naturally, she’s determined to figure out what went down—Ben is many sometimes sketchy things but she doesn’t believe he would have bailed on her so completely—a quest that may end up putting her in more danger than she could have ever predicted. Foley takes us beneath the glitzy facade of Paris, the designer fashion shows, the Eiffel Tower, the West Bank cafes, and shares some of its dirty secrets.

Wow I have been missing out!!!! I have never read Ms. Foley’s novels so this was a wonderful surprise for me.I also enjoyed the final twist even though some part of the conclusion made my eyes roll, it was somewhat fair ending for the characters truly deserved! DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Harper Collins UK and Harper Collins Audio via Netgalley for providing both digital and audio ARCs of The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. In the Paris Apartment, the balance is completely wrong. It tries to keep all its secrets so close to it’s chest so that you have entirely no clue what’s going on or why anyone is doing anything for the majority of the book. The story that’s provided is barely enough to keep it moving forward. There are a number of ways in which The Paris Apartment could have been improved, and I -- had I been Ms. Bowen's editor -- would have urged her to keep writing, keep improving her tale, and given her these options to choose from.

Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” — Vogue There she meets a fellow sitter named Ingrid, and the two strike up a strong friendship. However, after telling Jules that all is not as it seems in the building, Ingrid disappears. This thrilling mystery sees Jules unearthing the dark secrets of Bartholemew’s past in a deadly race against time to unmask a killer stalking its hallways.there's more weight to this one than The Hunting Party/ The Guest List—it's more ambitious in structure and content than the fluffy drawing room-style mysteries that preceded it, and it has a more meaningful story than fancy people getting murdered. not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's good to know she's got more in her than reheating a been-there-done-that plot. The Paris Apartment, however, offers up a completely different group of players-to go along with this foreboding atmosphere and I thought it was the BEST of her three to date! First of all, how great to be in Paris as it adds an atmosphere all of its own especially as the city is a boiling pot of political unrest which perfectly matches the events in Rue des Amants. Secondly, the house is a star of its own show as the author cleverly uses all its nooks, crannies and corners to create a very strange and tense atmosphere which you feel right from the very start. There are spooky shadows, you wonder what evil lurks in the dark corners and it ramps up the tension with a growing sense of claustrophobia as if the walls are closing in. You have a really good whodunnit here as several characters behave oddly or suspiciously, some are downright sinister or there’s palpable hostility between characters and there’s an increased feeling of foreboding which hangs over the house. The warnings, threats and dangers magnify in intensity and it becomes apparent that there big secrets that people are intent on keeping buried. The plot builds well as revelation piles on revelation. There’s a good twist at the end although maybe it’s all ultimately resolved a bit too easily? Jess needs a place to stay, so she hits up her half brother. When she arrives at his residence, she finds a fancy building with questionable tenants, but no sign of Ben. As she digs deeper and asks around, she starts to realize that all is not as it seems at this apartment building. Dun dun dun!

Estelle is Lia's grandmother. Her story will be told in the 1940s. During those chapters, we learned what Estelle was really doing during the Nazi occupation of France, her visits to the Ritz, and her relationship with Sophie, a woman who looks like an ice princess and whose sole purpose left in life is to help bring the nazis down. I love books set in Paris but feel burnt out on WW2 books, so I went into The Paris Apartment with low expectations. I am happy to say I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I enjoy books about missing/stolen art and that's what elevated this book for me, not to mention Kelly Bowen's beautiful and moving writing. The book has two different timelines and three main heroines. In WW2 occupied France the lives of two brave women, Estelle Allard and Sophie Seymour, collide when they are thrown together on a dangerous mission against the Nazis. EXCERPT: He should call her, give her some directions. When her phone rings out he leaves a voicenote: 'Hey Jess, so it's number twelve, Rue des Amants. Got that? Third floor.' Also, the “twist” that Camille and Dominique are lovers? Totally out of left field and also, who cares? Paris, 1942: The Germans may occupy the City of Lights, but glamorous Estelle Allard flourishes in a world separate from the hardships of war. Yet when the Nazis come for her friends, Estelle doesn’t hesitate to help those she holds dear, no matter the cost. As she works against the forces intent on destroying her loved ones, she can’t know that her actions will have ramifications for generations to come.The Paris Apartment is an absorbing book that I thoroughly enjoyed. The field of WWII books that take place in Paris has become a bit crowded but I found this story to be a particularly good one. The characters are well developed and both timelines are equally interesting. While it presents the seriousness and horrors of the war, it’s a lighter read than some of the other books of its kind, which was a welcome change for me. Jess breaks into the apartment to wait and finds a cat covered in blood, and more questions than answers. Can she trust any of the others living in this building to help her find her brother? As I mentioned in my above content, I thought The Paris Apartment as ok overall. I enjoyed her previous novels ( The Hunting Party and The Guest List) so I was a bit let down by this one, to be honest. I felt it was missing the strong character development of her past novels. The question is, how far will some go to protect their secrets? Will they kill to protect those secrets? Or will they kill to escape them? However, after Katherine goes missing one day, Casey is drawn into a potentially deadly game of untangling how the realities behind this model couple are anything but idyllic.

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