The Apartment

De: K. L. Slater

Narrado por: Tuppence Middleton, John Chancer

They say every cloud has a silver lining....

When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse. Within a couple of weeks, Freya and Skye are moving into Adder House and meeting the other welcoming residents. They very quickly feel part of the family.

But just when Freya truly believes all her problems are history, a series of strange, unexplained occurrences begin. It leaves Freya with the unshakeable feeling that even when their apartment door is securely locked, she and her daughter are not alone. Freya thought she’d left all her troubles behind her, yet she soon realises there are problems here that are far more terrifying than before.

For behind the doors of Adder House, everything is most definitely not as it seems.

Old secrets refuse to stay buried, and someone is determined to keep a terrible past very much alive.

©2018 K. L. Slater (P)2019 Audible, Ltd

Great “Gaslight” with a Twist!

This was my first K.L. Slater book. It had wonderful suspense. It truly reminded me of the classic movie Gaslight, but with a twist. I certainly didn’t guess whodunnit. I’ll definitely be reading/listening to another! I feel a psychological thriller/suspense binge coming on. I truly loved Tuppence Middleton’s narration, with the exception of little Skye’s voice. She did so well with the rest, I hesitate to criticize. Yet, Skye sounded more like an evil old lady than a young girl. I even got a second and a third opinion in my household. My husband said he didn’t know about evil, but definitely old. My son said “old witch.” That’s probably the best description. She did such an amazing job otherwise, I eventually didn’t even notice quite as much. It’s beyond me how any of the narrators keep the voices straight when switching back and forth. I often wondered if they read each voice separately and they were then all put together. Yet, there’s a wonderful video of her recording the book, and she read right through it, switching voices before my eyes. I’d certainly recommend this one!

Not my cup of tea

Long, dragged. I could not get into it and British mysteries are my thing. I was super stoked to buy this but did not enjoy it much. Disappointed

Solid 2.5-3 read

Interesting psychological thriller that uses a mother and her child as the focal parts for the story. I thought the author did a very good job in describing the characters and the narration quality allowed you to be drawn right into the story. My only negative were the flashbacks to the past. It wasn't until the last third of the book, did I start to understand the impact and usage of the flashbacks. If the author could have developed why the flashbacks were needed earlier, for me that would have helped where I felt the story went off point.

Awesome read

I love how it kept me guessing about all the characters and how it was related to the child Albert

A bit disappointed

I really wanted to like this book. I have a hard time with Freya's character. While it would be great to have a wonderous apartment fall out of the sky and land at your feet, shouldn't she wonder about things that seemed to good to be true? I dislike female characters who spend the entire story constantly second guessing their own instincts. From the beginning, Freya was seeing red flags about the apartment and tenants in the building. I mean...how weird does everything have to be before you decide it's not the place to be??? Plus when Dr. Marston wants to put a camera in her apartment, why doesn't she just leave. Freya even finds out other apartments don't have cameras, so wouldn't common sense take over? Her daughter Skye was miserable at the new school and yet Freya was so intent on living in the creepy apartment. The ending was just to out there for me to find credible. It made sense but not with the character it related to. There were some interesting parts but overall it just wasn't very believable to me.

Fell short

I really enjoy this author as I have listened to several of their books. This story was good, but the big twist/reveal/ending really fell short.

Too trying on my suspension of disbelief

While I recognize plot lines are not in endless supply and applaud author KL Slater's incorporation of a historic event to lend some credibility to this story, it fell flat for me. Without giving the story away, I can only admit that the suspension of disbelief required for most fictional stories is stretched here too thin to survive. Not a favorite for me, though the performance is nonetheless very good.

Slow.

Wasn’t thrilled with how slow this story line was. Also hated the ending… everything tied together in a perfect bow

Not what you think.

OK so THE apartment. We know the story right? A young lady, someone is watching blah blah honestly there must be a thousand books about someone watching you in a new apt. kind of yes kind of no. A great historical twist.

Couldn't stop listening!!

The book is well written and it was hard to predict too much ahead of time. The was the story comes together is brilliant! Would definitely recommend.