The Paris Apartment

This was an extremely slow read. Not much happens plot-wise until the end. I found the writing style to be very strange as well. The chapters were from many different perspectives but in those chapters we get both past and present points of view. Unfortunately, there is not a clear point where the flashbacks are obvious, and I found myself confused about where I was in time. I liked the missing person aspect, but when I got to the end and finally was piecing together what was happening, I really didn't like it. The direction this book took at the end was wild, and not in a good way. I'm proud of myself for finishing this and not giving up, but the end didn't have a great payoff or a jaw-dropping twist. I was thinking in the first half that I liked it better than The Guest List because of all the mystery, but it was definitely worse. But to be honest, I found The Guest List very overhyped so I'm thinking Lucy Foley just isn't for me. What I did love in this book were the short chapters, some even with cliffhangers. This made this slow book much more manageable. Longer chapters and I would have certainly DNF'd.