This is my second K L Slater book and although I enjoyed it, I felt the previous book I read was better called Little Whispers. It had a good storyline when you get into it but I thought it focused too much on the backstory earlier in the book but the ending was unexpected and really good so I feel that made up somewhat for the lacking in the beginning. I will still look to read more by this author.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I thought this was a bit odd at the beginning, very Adam's family like with the settings and characters. as the story progresses it becomes clear something is not right and it doesn't take Einstein to figure out what the residents of the apartment were doing. Slightly scary and creepy. A provocative thriller, slow to pick up but worth the read.

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the advance ecopy.
Freya is a single mom whose husband dies shortly after he left her for someone else. She can't afford her home anymore and an elderly man offers her an apartment and she takes it. Not long after she moves in weird things start to happen. Her daughter Skye starts having nightmares. Everything just starts getting strange. Wasn't a bad read just missing a little something.

So first of all this is a nice, quick and easy read. But because of this I found it really hard to engage with the characters as you don’t get a lot of back story. I also feel like Freya, the main character is so naive and far too open and trusting. I found myself wanting to shout at her all the way through this book. About half way through I already knew what was happening but the only thing I couldn’t predict was who was in on it and what the connections were so that was something that drove me to finish the book and in the end I was shocked as it wasn’t what I had in mind. I just wish the book was a bit longer, I would have loved for relationships to develop further.

I am a really big fan of K. L. Slater and have never once been disappointed by any of her books. This was no exception and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I read it in under a day which is testimony to how gripping the story line was. The book is quite a short one and, like her previous books, has short chapters which I love as they encourage me to read 'just one more' which speeds me through a book at breakneck speed. There was a sense of creepiness and unease throughout the book and characters whose personalities were difficult to gauge, i.e. were they to be trusted or were their motives rather dubious? I was on tenterhooks all the way through wondering just who was behind the bizarre occurrences in Freya and Skye's apartment and the many twists and turns were well executed and unexpected. My only slight disappointment was that we never got to find out how the husband died and I feel this would have rounded up the book even better. I shall be eagerly waiting for K.L. Slater's next edge-of-the-seat book. My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a pre-release copy in exchange for my honest review.

I enjoyed this book, however I frequently found myself questioning the main characters judgement. The end was exciting, if not a little rushed.

Wow! This pulse-racing book is a quick read with a little super natural feel to it. It certainly has my interest piqued up until its conclusion. 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 rating from me! Thank you Netgalley, Amazon Publishing UK, and KL Slater for this awesome book in exchange for an honest review!

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this spooky book

oh my word this book gripped me so much that i read it in a day....couldnt put it down...

when freya life is turned upside down a chance meeting and an offer of a new place to live with cheap rent is to much of an offer to resist....

and from that day on freya life is never the same again.....

its the stuff of nightmares...i am not even sure i will sleep tonight...after reading this one...brilliant though

another author to go on my ever increasing list of authors to look out for

The Apartment from K.L. Slater has a premise that seemed familiar. Similar to Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, a woman moves into a lux apartment and strange things start happening. Noises, things moving around and the apartment building full of strange people doing strange things.

The Apartment, however, features Freya, a single mother of 5-year old Skye. Her husband has died, but not before leaving her for a former friend. Freya meets Dr. Marsden in a coffee shop and he offers the apartment at the top of Adder House. A new neighborhood, a new school, it's a perfect fresh start for Freya and Skye. Until it isn't. Strange packages, flies, furniture being moved....it all starts adding up. Freya meets Mark, a construction worker, who passes along the story of a woman who previously lived in Adder House.....and died in an apparent suicide.

This book moves pretty fast. The conclusion was less than satisfying. It was more confusing than anything. It almost felt rushed, as it there was a page limit and it was being hit before the '1920s' portion of the story could be developed. I wanted more. More about Lily, more about the tall man, more about Dr. Marsden.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

A fantastic book with lots of twists and turns. Easy and quick to read but equally compelling. The characters are well developed and it keeps you guessing throughout. Great read and would love to read more by this author

When something sounds too good to be true - it usually is.

Freya is searching for an affordable apartment for her and her daughter, Sky. A man she meets while getting coffee offers to rent her an amazing apartment in Adder House for whatever she can afford. Freya is hesitant, but agrees to a tour. The building is beautiful, and the apartment is new. Freya and Sky move in and strange things start happening.....

Lots of twists and turns in this book, and I couldn't put it down!

Thank you to Amazon Publishing UK & NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title.

#TheApartment #NetGalley

Quite thrilling but not that grand. Predictable. The very question was, "who will go to an apartment that was offered to you freely?" Nope.

Freya and her daughter Skye are offered a unique opportunity to live in a wonderful apartment for what she can afford. Things seem to good to be true. After they move in Freya starts to notice little oddities. Is something happening or is Freya just imagining things.

What a quick easy read. With lots of twists and turns to keep,you guessing. I would have rated it five stars but the ending seemed a little rushed.

Excellent psychological thriller that kept me guessing the whole time. The saying of its too good to be true fits this book perfectly. Greys finds herself in a situation where she needs to find a place for her and her daughter to live after the sudden death of her estranged husband. So when a man approaches her in a coffee shop and explains she can lives in a beautiful home for almost next to nothing it is a dream come true... until everything starts going wrong, making Freya feel like she’s losing her mind. The end is one I would not have guessed and tied the story up completely.
Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy.

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This is a really gripping page turner! I raced through the story in a couple of sittings, I couldn't wait to get to the end and find out what was really going on. Thanks so much for sharing the review copy, I really enjoyed it.

Do you ever read a book and although you like the main character, you spend most of the time frustrated out of your mind with them? This is my overall feeling after finishing The Apartment, an upcoming psychological thriller by K.L. Slater. As the blurb states, Freya is at her wit's end emotionally and financially after her husband's death, desperately searching for an apartment for her and her five-year-old daughter Skye. One day in a coffee shop she randomly meets Dr. Marsden who is posting a flyer for an available apartment to rent. When he tells Freya about the place and its location, she assures him that it is well above her budget. However, after showing her the beautiful apartment in Adder House, he agrees to a ridiculously low rent that she can afford. You know how they say, if something is too good to be true, then it probably is? This was certainly the case with Freya and her new place at Adder House.


Here is what I enjoyed about this novel. The plot and subplots were unique and interesting. I won't go into the core topic behind everything for fear of spoilers, but you will realize what's going on not far into the novel. I loved K.L. Slater's characterization and how she expertly brought each and every character to life. Whether it was one of the residents or a classmate of Skye's, I was able to vividly picture each character, imagine their voices, and picture their movements - especially when it came to Audrey. Also, kudos to the author for some really creepy moments, especially involving a gift to a classroom and other events that Freya was sure she hadn't done, but then started to doubt herself and wonder. 


Unfortunately, I have some real issues with this one. First of all, Freya drove me insane for about 80% of the book. I liked her character overall, but I felt that she turned a blind eye way too frequently. School incidents with Skye, creepy behaviors of the Marsdens and the other residents, cameras in her apartment, and so on. She was lucky enough to have two really good friends that had offered her a place to stay for a while and there were about 1000 times where she should have shoved what she could into some suitcases and high-tailed it out of there - but she didn't. Secondly, I don't feel as if the entire story was wrapped up how it should have been. There were so many questions left unanswered and inconsistencies that never made sense. How did Freya's husband die? What was making Freya randomly fall asleep at the oddest times? Why was her best friend not concerned about the creepy landlord getting her number and calling her about Freya? Why weren't the teachers monitoring the children better on the playground?


So, overall, this was an o.k. read for me. I hung in there without skimming just in case I missed something super exciting and/or important. I liked the premise of The Apartment, but something was missing for me. I'm thinking that this is about a 3-star read for me. It's not bad, but not great. 


*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

If something seems too good to be true then it probably is. Freya has had a terrible year, following the loss of her husband, she finds her and 5 year old daughter soon to be homeless. Until she finds herself taking up the opportunity of a lifetime, starting over, living in the nice part of London in a luxurious apartment for an affordable rent with no strings seemingly attached.

I did enjoy this little book, it was easy to read, getting through it in just a few hours however that being said something about the pacing was slightly off for me. Somewhere the suspense just fell a bit flat. The journal entries were jarring and the whole tie in to those was a huge stretch. I felt he red herrings didn’t add anything to the plot either and the ending was rushed and anti-climatic, everything was too neat and tidy. So much potential for something slightly different in the genre but failed to deliver.

You know that old saying if something is too good to be true…That is the entire premise of “The Apartment”. This wasn’t a bad book per se but it just didn’t have a really big thrill factor for me. The premise of the novel really wasn’t anything new and I was able to guess what was going to happen. The ending was a little too touchy-feely for me as well. The best I can say is this isn’t the worst book I’ve read but it certainly isn’t the greatest either.

Thank you to @netgalley and the publishers for granting me this #ARC of The Apartment in exchange for my honest review.

This book definitely has some serious creep factor to it. The story reminded me a lot of Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door. Most of the story takes place in a grand apartment building and has lots of odd happenings throughout. A single mom and daughter are approached by an elderly man in a coffee shop with an offer to move into The Adder house, a prestige apartment building that is way out their price range. After generous persuasions, they agree and from that moment on there is more than meets the eye. The author takes the reader to the past through a journal from an unknown person who is reading from it. This adds an entirely different spook element because it is from the perspective of a person lurking from afar. With lots of twists and turns the story goes from 0-60 pretty quickly. Before I knew it, it was over and I was left with feelings of sadness because I finished it too quickly... I definitely wanted more!!
Bravo to K.L. Slate. r for this fantastically eery tale!!

I LOVED this book. In fact, I think this may be my favorite book of 2020. This was a page-turner from start to finish. Although the premise of the book is quite common for thrillers, this was well done. The main character, Freya, is likable and smart. The secondary characters are creepy, and the way that the author vividly describes the apartment makes you feel like you're there. Thanks for the ARC.