Review: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
2/5 ⭐️
Summary: Jess travels all the way to Paris from London to stay at Ben's apartment (her foster brother) after getting into trouble at her previous workplace. When she gets there, Ben doesn't meet her as planned. She tries to contact him, but she finds out that Ben left his vespa keys and wallet in his apartment which was weird. At one point she starts getting nervous because she knows her brother has gone missing. She begins her own investigation and starts asking the other tenants.
Fast forward, it turns out that the people who live in the apartment are all related. Ben, who is a journalist, found out something creepy going on with the family and he started to investigate. He was eventually caught which is why he disappeared.
The story was told in the characters' perspective and each of them talked about their interactions with Ben before he disappeared. But I'm going to give it to you straight, it was so boring. The first half of the book was so slow. Towards the end of it though, everything kept unraveling and it was just the speed of lightning from thereon. The way the story ended was just unrealistic and ridiculous to me. The book didn't feel like a thriller at all to me and I think that once you finish reading it, you'll realize that there's a huge plot hole.
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