The Apartment
By K.L. Slater
Thomas & Mercer
2020
270 pages Thriller
I wrote this review while I was sick. It is very
incomplete, but it needs to be included in my “books read.”
As I have been healing from Covid 19, I have had trouble
finding a book that would hold my interest. I was experiencing too much anxiety
and too little energy. The Apartment by Karen Slater met my needs.
The Apartment is very skillfully written; it holds the
reader’s attention all the way through. Part of the reason for this is the way
the plot keeps moving, mostly because the reader gets immediately caught up in
this “too good to be true” situation. Freya and her little daughter Skye will
soon be homeless because of some unfortunate life circumstances, when they are
offered an apartment in the magnificent old Adder House near Kensington
Palace.
But nothing seems right from the very beginning, and suspense fills every page. Freya is a very appealing character as is little
Skye. We want the best for them and yet
we know that the best isn’t going to happen for them. There is a great deal of
suspense, and I had trouble figuring out how all the pieces fit together.
Unfortunately, the ending was quite rushed and the pieces did not all get tied
up. That was a major disappointment in an otherwise taut thriller.
Interestingly, this book came out first as an Audible
exclusive. The paperback and Kindle copies came out today, April 28. The Kindle
Unlimited copy is currently free.
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