Review#15 THE APARTMENT by KLSlater and reviewing for Netgalley.
Freya lives with her five year old daughter Skye but has been having a rough time ever since her estranged husband died and he left the house to his mistress. When Freya meets a doctor who has the perfect apartment to offer for rent and at a great price, it seems like things may be looking up, but are they? I absolutely love this author! The story just keeps building and was very hard to put down. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Five stars

This was my first, but definitely not last, KL Slater novel. This one hooked me from the start. The twists were non-stop. I very rarely say this but I honestly did not see the final twist at the end coming.

I enjoyed reading this book. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in it. It was a well written book. I hope to read more books by this author.

I got this book yesterday and already finished it! It started out so good. It had just the right amount of suspense and creepiness. I didn't like the flashback/diary chapters because they were kind of sick. Of course it all came together at the end even though some things were never explained. The end was kind of unbelievable to me.

I just struggled with this book. I found it very confusing and difficult to follow as it jumped from a single mother with a young girl, given a beautiful apartment in a beautiful setting, in a desired area of London, to a home invasion in Paris. All of this for a very affordable rent. Something was unsettling about the other tenants and I could anticipate something happening to the small child. It was also a challenge to connect the scenarios and characters.
Maybe it’s the difficult times we are experiencing and the anxiety that has manifested, but I couldn’t deal with it and stopped reading. This could be a read for a different time, and I’ll try to continue when times are better.
My thanks to #Amazon and #NetGalley for the ARC

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Amazon Publishing UK and K.L. Slater for a free copy of this book in exchange for a review.
After the death of her husband, Freya and her 5 year old daughter Skye are searching for a new place to live after being forced to sell the family home. While looking at ads for rentals in a coffee shop, Freya meets Dr. Adler getting ready to post an apartment for lease in a large older home. He convinces Freya to check it out and gives her a great deal on a great home for mother and daughter.
When Freya's friends share concerns about an offer being to good to be true, she pushes their concerns away.
Then, Skye begins to hear voices in her room, strange happenings are taking place in the apartment and Freya is left to decide if she made the right choices for herself and her daughter.
This was the first of K.L. Slater's books for me but, I will be looking for her others. This book kept my attention and kept me up after bedtime to finish it! It was fantastic!

The way this was told in first person with Freya narrating everything was exhausting. Rather than letting the story be told and the reader “getting it” as it developed, the author chose to have Freya explain in detail every thought she had. Given the description of the book, the reader knows not to trust the residents, so Freya throwing all logic out the window just makes her seem that much more naive and not smart. It certainly didn’t help build suspense through the majority of the book which would have been a better reader experience. I was also annoyed that the husband plot line that hinted about something happening to him was just left hanging with no resolution in the end. Overall, this book could have been so much better. 2.5 stars.

Thanks to netgalley for the advanced reader copy.

This was an exceptionally good book that moved quickly. Freya, now a single mother with her young daughter need a place to live. She is in dire straits due to her financial situation. She is confronted by a man while looking at a billboard with flyers about apartments to rent when she is approached by a man who offers her an apartment in a beautiful building at such a low cost. Remember, let the buyer be aware that no one gives away anything for free or makes it so affordable without a motive. She accepts but is very cautious. There is something not right at this house. There are flashbacks throughout the book to journals written in the 1920’s about behavioral conditioning on a child with a rat. All I can say is that I didn’t see the twist coming and what a twist this was. If you are a fan of psychological thrillers, then you will enjoy this book. I want to thank Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC I received for a honest review.

“The Apartment” by K.L.Slater
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Thanks to Netgalley for giving me an early release Ebook copy! It officially hits the shelves on April 28th!
This was a fast easy read. I read it in two days! I would of liked more suspense and quick punches. The characters were likeable and I was wondering the entire time what was going to happen. The ending was not predictable, but I felt like the thrill part was so short.
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Freya Miller’s estranged husband dies leaving her and her 5 year old daughter Skye behind. She needs to find somewhere to live and an once and a lifetime opportunity presents itself. When she is approached at a local coffee shop by Dr.Marsden about a vacancy at The Adder House she jumps at the opportunity. When unexplainable things start happening in her new apartment her anxiety is in full force. People are starting to question her stress level. Freya feels like someone is watching her. Objects are being moved, she feels lethargic, and there are unexplainable sounds and smells. Then she discovers something about The Adder House history that makes her skin crawl. Is The Adder house really safe? Did she make a mistake by moving her daughter here?

This is a fast read that is full of suspense. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. Thank you Amazon Publishing UK via NetGalley for the ARC copy of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

I am grateful for the opportunity to read The Apartment. I could not help but compare it, somewhat unfavorably, to Lock Every Door by Riley Sager.
I will say that while it seemed less developed than the other title, it was a fast read for me and definitely held my attention. I would give it 3.5 stars.

While I enjoyed this psychological thriller I found it a bit unbelievable. I liked the main character, Freya, but questioned that she would have made some of the decisions she made (1) not getting any background on the mysterious doctor who offered her such a great deal on an apartment; (2) trusting her daughter with a kindly old woman she had only met on a couple of occasions; and (3) going out on a date with a construction worker she had only met once on the street. Also, I felt there were parts of the plot that were not fully developed. That being said, I enjoyed the fast paced writing style and was definitely drawn in quickly. I liked the setting of Kensington and, in particular the creepy Adder House. The ending brought a twist I hadn't anticipated, but I felt it was a bit rushed. I would give this author another chance and read another of her books. Thank you to Net Galley for the advanced copy of this book.

A young woman is hand selected to move into a fancy building with a bunch of older residents for next to no cost just as she’s reaching dire straits financially. If you’ve read Lock Every Door or The Girl Before and think this sounds familiar, well you weren’t the only one.

I was a clinical psychology major in college so I was already familiar with the Little Albert experiment and knew exactly where the story was going. I could’ve dealt with that had the MC not been so cripplingly naive and the villain’s plot been so stupid and outlandish. It just wasn’t believable in any sense.

Only plus was Skye was an adorable child and it was a very short book, but I didn’t like anything else about it.

I wanted to love this book but I couldn’t really get in to it. I think the story line was a little far fetched and I found the ending confusing. It felt a bit rushed and kind of unbelievable.

I could sum up K.L. Slater’s new thriller, the Apartment, in one word: CREEPY! Is there really anything more unnerving than the feeling of being watched and that you might be losing your mind? That’s exactly what happens to young widow Freya Miller. Freya and her young daughter are desperately trying to reduce expenses by downsizing their living space when Freya has an all-too-convenient coffee shop encounter with Dr. Marsden. Unable to resist the idea of a beautiful apartment in a great neighborhood with first-class schools, Freya and Skye move into Adder House, and that’s where the creepiness factor goes through the roof.

The Apartment is a quick read with a fast-paced storyline that drew me in and made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. It’s one of those books that make you want to scream at Freya not to move into Adder House, because the foreshadowing of something terrible happening is just too great to ignore. I tore through this book, anxious to make sure that Freya and Skye would be safe in the end, desperately wanting to tell Freya that if something seems to good to be true that it probably is! Don’t miss this one!

Freya Miller has just sold her home and has a short time in which to find another home for herself and her daughter, Skye. At a local Starbucks, she happens to meet Dr. Marsden, who coincidentally has an apartment for rent. She agrees to see the apartment, and decides to take it, as it is a fabulous dwelling for a ridiculously cheap amount of rent. As she moves in, Dr. Marsden and the sophisticated Audrey Marsden are overly solicitous, paying for the movers, and giving Freya and her daughter expensive gifts. As time passes, strange things are happening in the apartment at Adder House. Freya begins to doubt her choice in moving there, but can she run away from such a sweet deal? This book was totally captivating, and was hard to put down. It's a great book for those people who like suspense stories.

The Apartment is a psychological thriller that keeps you guessing throughout .So well written I found this book very hard to put down . Freya and her daughter Skye are given the opportunity to move into a luxurious apartment in Kensington at a rent she can afford she thinks her luck has changed at last but soon strange things start to happen that begin to frighten her .The story is creepy and atmospheric I loved it and didn't guess the ending .Many thanks to the Publisher the Author and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review .

Freya and her daughter Skye desperately need somewhere new to restart after the death of her husband. A chance encounter in a cafe with Dr.Marsden leads Freya to renting in a posh apartment block. Dr. Marsden is very keen for Freya to stay, so much so that he offers her the apartment at whatever she can afford. But when Freya and Skye start hearing noises and strange things start happening in the apartment, Freya begins to wonder if it was a bad idea to come live at Adder House 🤔

2⭐- Oh dear, I'm afraid this book really didn't do it for me😬 The language was so overly formal in places that it stilted the flow of the story. And unfortunately the story itself was pretty weak. It felt like it was a half baked idea that was thrown together for the sake of it. I wouldn't recommend this read. 🙁

A wonderful, creepy read. I love the slow build-up of suspense, the beautiful but spooky house and its weird residents. It was easy to see how Freya got drawn into living there and her fear and suspicion were brilliantly portrayed. The sections from the 1920s psychological experiments are chilling. If you read a lot of psychological suspense you'll probably guess where the story's going and who's responsible but I still really enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone who loves domestic noir

I loved this book thank you so much to netgalley for letting me read it.
I was hooked from the very Start as it moves at a quick pace which was really good and very enjoyable and keeps you wanting to know more.

Freya lives with her daughter skye and has had a tough life she was put into care as a young child and never really had any family. But she gets married and has skye but 18 months later that all changes and her husband moves out and then he dies.
So at the start of the book freya and skye are looking to sell there house and start a fresh somewhere new except she does not have a huge amount of money and starts to worry were they will be able to afford but after a chance meeting or is it?, with a Dr Marsden who offers her the chance of an amazing apartment in a fantastic part of town with a very small rent seems too good to be true.

After they move in things start being moved around the apartment and they hear very strange noises should they be worried especially when they hear stories of a young woman who lived here with her daughter but died.

Truly gripping read.
Would highly recommend.