The Paris Apartment: A Novel

I loved The Hunting Party. The Guest List was subpar. The Paris Apartment has taken Foley off my radar completely. Jess escapes a mysterious past in London and flees to Paris to stay with her brother, Ben, until she can get on her feet. When Jess arrives at his apartment, Ben is not there to let her in, despite his voicemail saying he would wait up for her. Shortly after entering the apartment, Jess was knocked unconscious. When she awoke there was no concern for who had knocked her out and left her bloody; just the urge to curl up in bed and hope Ben would happily turn up the next morning. Two days later, still no sign of Ben, Jess expressed concern about feeling like she was being watched...what even was going on and what were this girl's priorities? This all transpired in the first 15(ish)% of the book and left me detached and uninterested in the rest of the story. I stuck with the book only because I had to lead a book club discussion about it.

This book is comical. I mean, in the sense that it's ridiculous of course.

I listened to the audiobook, and the narration was the only thing that kept me going. The narrators were the best part. The book had a good start, and it hooked me in then... The story is flat, dull, uncreative, the build up for the suspense is not worth it. Nothing happens, besides all the characters going over internal monologues which they turn around into Ben, and then reflect it back onto themselves. Most of the action is crammed up into 40 pages... It's all cliche.

Even towards the end, theres still build-up of the events and no real unraveling of watching them happen. I had to chuckle when Mimi found Ben's journalistic investigations and the author doesn't even describe what she reads, its like "Oh no!" *drumroll* next character.

I didn't even like Jess, the whole time she's checking out how rich people are, how much can she steal (from a place she is temporarily living in) sizing up Nick and how rich he is and how much she wants to kiss him. From that to screwing some stranger she just met. She just reeked of trash and desperation, and quite honestly it was another cliche. Every character is a cliche, with a cliche story.

I wanted to DNF this one halfway through, but stuck it out because of the narrators. Quite honestly, I was a tad bit desperate towards the end to just finish already. The ending was cliche too.

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Love the ending

Lucy Foley is a talented author. She weaves in twists that you never see coming. Each one of her books that I've read has thrown me in the last few pages... Literally every time. I always think I have it figured out, she wants you to think that, and then BAM!!! she hits you with the last twist that you never saw coming. I can't say anymore than that or it will be spoiler central so just read it, it's great and you'll want to devour it in one sitting.