KL Slater is back with an addictive novel that’s impossible to put down. Thea lost her husband and is not sure how she’ll be able to provide for her daughter. Then, out of the blue, she finds a wonderful, fancy apartment for a price she can afford. Money-wise, at least. You know the old adage when something seems too good to be true. Thea will find out the hard way that there may be a bigger, hidden price to this bargain. The plot is easy to follow and the novel a quick read. Thea is a sympathetic character, but it was her daughter Skye who won my heart. I did see the final twist coming, but it was still presented in a way that left me satisfied. One of the revelations was a little too outrageous for me, but it was still overall a solid read. Thank you, NetGalley/ Amazon Publishing UK!

K.L. Slater is quickly becoming one of my favorite thriller authors. Her latest, The Apartment, doesn't disappoint. The writing keeps you hooked from the first page and the twists are completely surprising. I could not put this thriller of a book down. Highly recommend!
Thank you netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

I love all of K. L. Slater books and this book is definitely suspenseful and kept me wanting to know more and more. I was surprised by the ending I had no idea how it was going to end and I love books that I can not predict what will happen. I highly recommend this book to any psychological thriller book lovers!

The Apartment- I was unsure about this book in the beginning. It took me some push through to get going. When the other narrative popped up about the journal entry’s I was very confused. I felt like it could of been worded different to let you know. After the first one I understood what was happening but I did have to go back and see what book I was reading.

I really liked Frey’s character you could really see her love and passion for wanting to do what was right for her daughter. I did enjoy the book I would recommend it to a friend. I loved the plot twist at the end with Lily. I honestly thought it was the Doctor and his wife/ sister that we’re in charge and mark some how knew. I loved the ending happy she gay a happy ever after

This book was given to me by Net Galley to read and review with my honest opinion on the book.

Took me a while to get into the story of this novel and I think its due to not being used to reading a novel in first person. That being said this book was great! It has twists in the story line in all the right places that kept me guessing.
The plot was genius; a woman and her young child moving into a new home with new neighbours and some creepy background behind the Apartment they live in. I loved Freya's character purely for the fact she doesn't give up. The ending gave me such a surprise as I had been guessing who was behind all the funny business from the start and was completely wrong.
I think K.L Slater is an absolute brilliant author who deserves so much credit for the books she writes!

When something seems too good to be true it usually is - same could be said for this book! This isn’t the KL Slater I have read before! It was poorly written, unbelievable and really quite boring! I am hoping it’s a blip and she will be back soon!

Absolutely loved this book. My heart raced. I was on the edge of my seat throughout. It was very well written. The plot was simply astounding. Not like any book I’ve read before. You try and figure out the ending but the author was one step ahead. She totally threw me with her ending. Can see this book being a huge hit.

I have read all of K L Slater’s previous novels and have thoroughly enjoyed all of them. The Apartment was no different. Another great read from a talented author.

This has an original theme which was refreshing. Freya Miller has been left without a husband trying to bring up her five-year-old daughter, Skye, in London. A chance meeting with Dr. Marsden in a café leads her to rent what appears to be a ‘too good to be true’ apartment in Kensington.

Adder House is beautiful but Freya soon becomes worried about things happening which seem strange and unusual as well as the ‘Marsden’s’, who live on the ground floor, paying for too much and interfering in her life.

The story is told mainly by Freya as she faces each challenge and she backtracks to give a picture of what happened between her and her husband. Interspersed with this is a journal form 1902 concerning experimentation with a young boy. The vivid connection is made at the end.

A great read and highly recommended. Thanks to NetGalley, Amazon Publishiing UK and KL Slater for the ARC in return for my honest review.

When something seems too good to be true, question it. This is what my mum always told me.
You know instinctively in this book nothing is as it seems. But the ending seems very hard to believe.

Really enjoyed this novel. intriguing from the off and suspenseful throughout. Hard to tell who to trust, which made all the characters exciting. I did think we'd find out more about how her ex died, but that turned out not to be a plot point so much in the end. But an enjoyable read over all.

I adore K.L slaters style of writing being in the first person and she reminds me so much of Shalini Boland in her style of writing.

The apartment is a number one read for all thriller lovers, After Freya’s husband dies her world and her security is turned upside down, she can no longer afford to live in her home and has to urgently find herself and her young daughter Skye a new home, While in a coffee shops she is approached by a charming Dr Marsden who offers her an opportunity of a lifetime to live in one of the most prestigious areas in London called Adder house, Freya jumps are the opportunity and can’t believe her luck that she has been given a chance to live in such a beautiful building, however she soon realises that Adder house and the quirky residents that live within is not all that is seems, the residents and Adder house itself seems to be hiding secrets some of which could be deadly....

A gripping and addictive read for all. I throughly enjoyed and raced through this in a short period, A big thank you to netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Thanks to Netgalley and Amazon Publishing UK for giving me the opportunity to read this book. A bit slow at the start but then the pace quickened and I could not wait to see what happened next.. A fabulous read with a unique storyline, this book is a must read for anyone who loves suspense!!!

This is the second book I read from this author. Although the plot is very intriguing I didn't find the characters very interesting, maybe because they were not so likable. Anyway it was a good book, but I can’t say it was a page turner.

Thanks to Netgalley for the free ebook to review!

I enjoyed this creepy psychological thriller! I loved the creepy apartment setting. I was wondering how the whole book was going to tie in all together, but I was not expecting the whole psychology aspect and all the weird people who were totally okay watching and experimenting on people.

This one was such a fast and easy read read!

Another great read from KL Slater and the story had me gripped from the start although the ending was a bit of an anti climax, I had all this ideas of who the narrator was and I liked that part of the book as it added to the intrique of the story. I would like to thank the publishers and netgalley for letting me have the book to review and the opinions expressed are entirely my own views and are completely unbiased.

With a stunning cover and interesting blurb, I was excited to receive an eARC of The Apartment. After her estranged husband dies, Freya is on the verge of losing everything. Struggling with the severity of the decisions she must make in order to take care of her five year old daughter, Skye, a chance encounter at a cafe puts her directly in line for an opportunity that seems too good to be true. Dr. Marsden offers her a beautiful apartment in a beautiful house in a beautiful neighborhod--well out of range of what she's able to afford--with the ability to move in less than a week. Strapped and stressed, she agrees, and things get weird.

As a literary subject, I'm a big fan of behavioral experiments as plot devices. Done well, they'll stick with you for years. And while Slater's writing was engaging and effortless, I had a difficult time buying into the narrative frame. The premise of the story relies entirely on her accepting this room, and I still can't see why anyone in her position would ever choose to do so. She doesn't vet Dr. Marsden or the house. She doesn't ask questions. She doesn't consider why someone would strike up a conversation with her and offer a too-good-to-be-true housing situation. She has at least six months' financial ability to find a decent place in the same district before she'd need to consider finding a job, and still she accepts this strange offer without a day to contemplate the irrationality of it. I never got the sense that the stakes were as dire as we were supposed to believe. It's a plot point I just could not get past.

None of the characters were particularly likeable, not something I need in order to enjoy a text, but the responses rubbed me the wrong way. For example, the mother of Skye's best friend completely rips her a new one for not informing her of their plans--in spite the common knowledge of her husband's death and the need to move, this is a HUGE surprise--and refuses to let the daughters associate any longer. I just...what? I'm living in the kindergarten world right now, and while mom circles are tricky to navigate, I cannot even fathom this level of pettiness.

*spoilers* I also had a difficult time with Freya's decisions and lack of common sense to push the plot forward. She acts completely oblivious about the identity of the sender of the mysterious, expensive presents, when pages before--and after--she reflects on the expensive and strange gifts from the Marsdens. For the purpose of introducing doubt alone, she neglects the Very Obvious Thing in front of her in favor of an outlandish connection we had no investment in or any interest in pursuing. This was a misstep for me, because the subplot felt underdeveloped and unnecessary. Additionally, she ignores her gut when several events in the apartment and house warrant suspicion. The one trustworthy voice in the entire plot is an underdeveloped side character who feels more like a device to get to a happy ending.

I didn't give up on the story, though. I was still intrigued by the idea of what the experiment was. *semi spoilers*
Revealed in a series of old journal entries and a strangely-flat culminating confrontation, the experiment is a focus on fear stimuli, stemming from Pavlov's bell. I could be off-base here, but this seemed more common sense to me: that if you introduce something that terrifies a subject, repeatedly and consistently, that subject will undoubtedly develop a Pavolovian response to said stimulus. From countless stories of abuse and PTSD, this didn't at all seem as outrageous as I think we as the audience were supposed to find it, and because of that, I was not left with the "OMG" shock I expected at the beginning.

Overall, this was a quick read with enjoyable writing, but relatively flat characters and conclusion. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a simple thriller with accessible conflict, but I'm not sure I would re-read this again myself.

Amazing story that kept me up reading when I should have been sleeping. Good storyline that kept me interested

If it seems too good to be true... then it probably is...

Freya finds herself as a young widow along with her five year old daughter Skye, facing an uncertain future. As the thought of couch-surfing in her best friend's house looms over her, Freya desperately tries to find a place where she and her daughter can live but even out of work, that isn't an easy task.

She finds herself being approached by a gentleman in a coffee shop whonis conveniently looking for a new tenant in his luxurious apartment building. Freya, thinking there is no way she can afford this is given an offer she simply, cannot refuse...

I devoured this book! I found it to be gripping and suspenseful. I loved the idea behind it and I found myself trying to guess what was going to happen throughout it. This is a great example of a really good suspenseful psychological thriller - they can become so "cut & paste" after you read a lot of them but this was different & it was gloriously nail-biting.

However, it doesn't come without faults. I found it rushed towards the end, it could have benefited being longer - it certainly was pacey enough. Some plot lines were left unexplored and unexplained. How did her husband actually die? Was there more to it? Some of the smaller twists were a little... ridiculous but ok, it's fiction, I'll just go with it. The ending though was what really bothered me, for such a great suspenseful book, why did the ending do me dirty like that?! Plus, I guessed the plot twist (which doesn't really bother me anyway nor take away the enjoyment of the whole book) but honestly, it was the ending that I felt duped by. It was so rushed - this book could easily be a five star book if it wasn't for how it was wrapped up. It was incredibly disappointing.

Saying all of that, I would still highly recommend this book! If you're looking for a quick read which is pacey and gripping then this is the book you're looking for.

I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

When something seems too good to be true…it usually is! Such is the case in The Apartment by K.L. Slater who introduces us to Freya and her young daughter Skye.⁣ Freya is totally down on her luck so when she happens to meet a kind man who offers her a luxury apartment for cheap, she cannot believe it! Things are looking up.⁣

Suddenly Freya is living in a posh place in a beautiful area of town. She is excited for a fresh start after the death of her husband and this place is going to be perfect! ⁣Except…things are starting to seem weird. And the people act kind of bizarre. What’s with the sounds coming from the other side of the apartment? And when she hears rumors of a young woman dying in this very same apartment, Freya begins to wonder if maybe this isn’t the best place for her and Skye.⁣

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Freya Miller needs a miracle. In the fallout of her husband’s betrayal, she’s about to lose her family home, and with it the security she craves for her five-year-old daughter, Skye. Adrift and alone, she’s on the verge of despair until a chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes everything. He’s seeking a new tenant for a shockingly affordable flat in a fashionable area of London.

Adder House sounds too good to be true… But Freya really can’t afford to be cynical, and Dr Marsden is adamant she and Skye will be a perfect fit with the other residents.

But Adder House has secrets. Even behind a locked front door, Freya feels as if she’s being watched: objects moving, unfamiliar smells, the blinking light of a concealed camera… and it’s not long before she begins to suspect that her dream home is hiding a nightmarish reality. Was it really chance that led her here—or something unthinkably dark?

As the truth about Adder House starts to unravel, can Freya and Skye get out—or will they be locked in forever?

I was totally hooked from the beginning pages and liked the authors writing style. This is the second book I’ve read by her and will definitely be reading more.⁣ Highly recommend, this book is due out on April 28 but she has loads of suspense to choose from in the meantime!⁣

This is my first book of author K.L.slater and certainly won't be my last.
Easily 4 stars.
Freya is a recent widower, and mother of a 5year old girl, Skye. She is struggling financially and emotionally, when, one day, while sitting in a Starbucks, she is approached by Dr. Marsden, who gave her an offer to rent his luxurious apartment for a small price. As expected, the offer is holding hidden mysteries.
I don't know for the other readers but for me, I will categorize it as a cozy thriller. The plot is well written but the ending was a little plain for me.
I will definitely check the other novels by the author.
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publishers, for my advance copy to read and give an honest review.