Enjoyed this one! Quick read, well written. Just enough “creep” factor to keep me going. Fast read as well. The plot was captivating. The setting, I could definitely envision as I read page by page. When an author is able to allow me to visualize so clearly, that is part of the enjoyment I receive when reading.

Super appreciative to be introduced to a new author for my shelves. Thank you for the advanced read and opportunity to share my thoughts! I would suggest it to, as it is a quick read you can’t go wrong!

Whew this book was a lot and I felt myself tense as I turned every page. With so many psychological twists and a surprise psychology connection this book takes its readers in a wile ride. Freya and her daughter have had a rough year so when the dream apartment becomes available Freya jumps at the chance to have a fresh start, but that fresh start has strings attached she never saw coming! A great read!

This book was very similar to Lock Every Door by Riley Sager. This book tells the story of Freya and her young daughter, Skye. Freya is a recent widow and is approached in a coffee shop by a man offering her a low-rent place to live in a prominent home in London. She feels that it's too good to be true but accepts the offer anyway and she and Skye move in. After they move in, weird things start happening in her apartment and she hears things. She feels as though she is going crazy and is desperate to find out why these things are happening.

If something sounds too good to be true then it probably is. A lesson so true for this tense psychological thriller. A sense of unease begins the story - for the reader as much as the central character - and continues to build right through to the end. The relief for the reader at the very end is almost palpable.

This novel by K.L Slater is being released next week and I'm glad I can finally talk about it. This was a very quick read but very enticing. Freya Miller gets the chance of a lifetime to live in a beautiful apartment building, with her daughter, and for very little rent. However, once she arrives, things start happening and it's not at all what she expected. I was a little confused while reading because I really had no clue how this would end. The way it ended, and what happened was even more confusing and took some time to really understand but it was a wild ride. It was very different from anything I've ever read which was very refreshing. The Apartment was well worth the read and I recommend picking it up next week!

It was a quick, entertaining read, but I found myself having to suspend disbelief a bit too often during this book. I also felt the ending wrapped up a little too quickly and I had a lot of unanswered questions.

* Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I slogged through this book. To me, Freya was naive and really didn't think things through, so anything that happened to her at Adder House was her own fault. The Marsdens were creepy and pushy, and although I'm sure it would have been hard to get out of there, I would have tried if I was Freya (or not even lived there in the first place). I couldn't finish it.

Thank you Netgalley for the book.
It was good, but the ending is lacking...
Worth the read though. Freya and her daughter Skye are offered an apartment they cannot afford because they are "a good fit". A lot of red flags that were ignored. Ending wasn't what you are expecting, but not in one of those awesome plot twist type of ways. Overall I still very much enjoyed it and personally think it's worth the read.

After the death of her estranged husband, Freya Miller is forced to sell her home and needs to find somewhere to rent ASAP. While out getting coffee she is approached by a friendly stranger, who happens to have a luxury apartment available to the right kind of tenant. Freya can't resist an opportunity to provide a stable environment for her five year old daughter Skye. But Adder House has its own secrets and soon Freya has a feeling she is being watched. Is Dr Marsden's offer too good to be true?

I binge read The Apartment in one sitting. I had an uneasy feeling from the get go. If someone offers you an apartment in Kensington for $500 a month you know there is something strange going on!

The book is told from two point of view, our protagonist's and also an unknown narrator reading snippets from an old diary. I was keen to see how to two narratives linked together.

This book had everything I enjoy in a thriller, an intriguing premise, fast pace and a shocking twist. However I did predict the twist and there were a lot of similarities between this book and another I have read recently.

3.5/5

The story of a single mom and her daughter who are trying to fight their way back from tragedy. Freya gets offered an amazing apartment for an equally amazing rate. It's perfect for her and her five year old Skye. But strange things start. happening once they move in.

This story is a fast paced thriller that keeps you turning pages. I felt the ending was very satisfying. This is an easy read that keeps you guessing through out,.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I was very much looking forward to this book based on the description and I love this genre.

This book was almost exactly the same as another book I have just read. Although there is one difference.

I would highly recommend this to someone new to the genre and testing the water.

I flew through the first short chapters then stalled. First, describing plants (no animal in sight) as ‘flora and fauna’ and then introducing us to a cartoon character, the sinister, tragic woman downstairs, who clearly has her haunted eye on the protagonist’s little girl... As the protagonist walks away, I think the woman even wails, ‘I could babysit her for you...’ I just couldn’t continue. This is a fast, pacey, plot rich and no doubt entertaining read. But my disbelief had awakened and was shouting at me to stop. Sorry.

Thank you for giving me the chance to read the Apartment. I read this as a buddy read with a few of my bookstagram buddies. I’ll tell you, it was hard to stop reading at the places we planned. I just wanted to keep going. The beginning of this book is so riveting. The one thing I will say, the main character’s naïveté grew somewhat annoying over time. If any of those things had happened to me, there’s NO way I would have stayed in that apartment. Asking to put a camera inside the entrance to your home? Bye bye. But I guess that wouldn’t make much of a book, would it? Overall it was a riveting read and I appreciated the opportunity to add it to my May TBR.

This book was creepy. I loved it. You knew strange things were happening and who (maybe, maybe not) was behind them. I could visualize a movie in my head while reading this book. Once you get into it you are hooked!! Want to be freaked out, read this book!

what i’m talking about:
British author K.L. Slater ventures into whatever subcategory of thrillers is devoted to buildings, hotels, houses, and in this case, The Apartment. We know right upfront by the title that something‘s up when a too good to be true offer gets dropped in Freya Miller’s lap. Facing the loss of her home, the loss of her friends, and the loss of her husband, Freya is not in a position to look a gift horse in the mouth. So she accepts the affordable rent apartment on the top floor of a converted mansion in the extremely affluent Kensington section of London. She’s ready for a fresh start.

Freya has a chance meeting with Dr. Marsden in a coffee shop when she’s looking at ads for rentals on the local bulletin board. He’s looking for just the right tenant. Hand meet glove. It’s interesting to go into a new read already suspicious and looking for clues. The author’s job is that much harder to make us suspend our disbelief. My litmus test for any thriller is if the protagonist is behaving and making choices in a way any other rational adult would, and yes, she did—even going to see the apartment before she accepted. There was nothing wrong with her thought processes. When something felt off, she followed up on her instinct. If she let something go, it was reasonable under the circumstances. So what’s up with the apartment? Is the title even referring to her apartment?

The Apartment is relatively short coming in under 300 pages and reads more like a “slice of life“ than the methodic unfolding of a story. Freya just goes about making the adjustments of moving, unpacking, trying to find her new normal in a new neighborhood with new neighbors, and a new school for her daughter. Nothing happens the first 50% of the book, just background and build up. Slater gives us the information that justifies Freya’s thought processes and lulls us into a sense of comfort before the big reveal. She lets us entertain our own suspects, the most obvious being Dr. Marsden. He feels a little film noir. Totally has a Vincent Price vibe to him. I admit that I pictured Price in the roll of Dr. Marsden, kind of like his character Roderick Usher in the 1960 adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s House of Usher.

Seemingly concerned and generous. So what’s the catch? Well, read the book. Rest assured that the ending makes sense and was appropriately foreshadowed, but wasn’t an easy slam dunk so far before last chapters as to make it perfunctory by the time you get there. Add this one to your pile of quick, but absorbing summer pool reads for a change of pace from romances.

My Rating: B, Liked It

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review.
I am not a stranger to K.L Slater’s novels, having read five of her most recent, including “Little Whispers”, as of yet to be released. I always enjoy Slater’s psychologically gripping novels, some more than others, but they all have that intriguing entertainment value that I have come to expect from the British author of more than twelve novels.
Freya Miller’s recently estranged husband just passed away, and now her and her young daughter, Skye, are given the oppourtunity of a lifetime- to live, practically rent-free, in one of the most luxurious apartments Freya has ever seen. Freya and Skye will get the chance to start a new life, and it is definitely everything Freya has ever dreamed of. Quickly though, Freya begins to become suspicious of her landlords’ behaviours, as the couple seem to be taking an unhealthy interest in her life and the life of her daughter. Than Freya starts hearing and seeing things that no one else sees, and when a local contractor tells her of the mysterious death that occurred at her apartment (that of a young mother), and none of the neighbours will talk about it, Freya’s suspicions quickly morph into fear. Freya needs to leave and take Skye with her but if the rumours are true, than Freya will not be getting of there alive.
This novel was difficult to review. First, we take Freya who, regardless of the fact that she was raised in a variety of foster homes and should have certified trust issues, uproots her daughter and moves into a home at the drop of a dime. She clearly has not heard of the adage “if it’s too good to be true”. The Marsden’s pay her rent, and for Skye’s schooling, and although Freya suggests she is “offended” by the gestures, she doesn’t outright question it until it is too late. Freya was a flawed and human character, who overall, was rather likable but I felt a lot of her behaviours were extremely unbelievable.
For someone with a psychology degree, the story of Little Albert and the psychologist John B. Watson, was all-too-familiar, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it reoccur in this story. However, the twisted familial connections lost me. The fact that only one person was behind the whole thing confused me as well, seeing as the entire apartment complex seemed to follow along complicitly with one person’s delusions, regardless of the detrimental effects on a young child. I find it hard to believe that everyone, regardless of commitments or relationships, would simply go along for the ride.
The story was well told, and I enjoyed the psychological aspect, especially seeing John B. Watson’s work re-enacted in the modern day, but the plot line was unbelievable and that aspect made it hard to follow the story’s flow.
An enjoyable, quick read, but it definitely falls into the genre of fiction, hands down. There is little believability in the story but if you can get past that aspect, you will be in for one hell of a ride.

The Apartment by K.L. Slater
I really enjoyed this book! This book was a quick and easy read, if you had a few hours spare you could read this book in one sitting.
I enjoyed the storyline and was kept guessing until the end, and I liked the characters.

A single mother with a five-year-old, a flat for rent that seems too good to be true, creepy fellow-residents...you just know something is very, very wrong. The only things I found a bit hard to take in was the perfect child who never had a tantrum or acted out, and a single parent with a small child going about her day with no sense of where her phone is. No modern parent I know (much less one whose child's father has died about a year ago) will leave the house without their mobile while their 5-year-old is in school.

A gripping, atmospheric book, but I was somewhat disappointed in the rushed ending.

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Freya and her daughter, Skye suffer a tragedy in their family and have to start over. They conveniently are given very inexpensive housing at the Adder House. Things seem okay at first, but Freya suddenly realize things may not be what they seem.

Overall, this was a good, quick read. I feel like it took awhile to really get into the bulk of the story. I was lost at first when there were flashbacks to Beatrice as their story was randomly dropped in the middle of the book. Definitely an interesting conclusion.

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Nothing is going right for Freya Miller. Her husband leaves her and their daughter and then dies in an accident, leaving her financially strapped and forced to sell their home. Finding a decent place to live seems impossible until she is approached by Dr. Marsden. He offers to rent her a beautiful apartment for a fraction of the going rate. How could she say no. Is it really too good to be true?
This is a good psychological thriller with a steady build-up of tension and uneasiness as Freya becomes increasingly disturbed about rumors she hears about Adder House and her experiences in the house. It's a good, fast read and I enjoyed it. I was however disappointed in the ending which was not quite as believable as I would like.