Woohoo! Another fab book by this author. I love them! Adder House? Sounds creepy and a bit wrong? Yep. The landlord has been watching Freya and she has no idea. She’s desperate for somewhere to live with her daughter. Too good to be true to be offered somewhere perfect at a really cheap rate?? Oohhhhhh yes!! Read on......you won’t regret it!! 5/5.

I enjoy this author's writing style but had a hard time getting into this book. Sure, I kept wondering what the catch was with Adder House, but it wasn't until the flashbacks/journal entries were introduced that I felt compelled to keep reading. When the big reveal finally occurred, I didn't feel satisfied because too many things didn't make sense.

3.5 stars
For most of this book, it was a solid 4+ stars. It was creepy and had me wildly turning pages trying to figure out what was going on and what was going to happen. I absolutely love books that make me feel unsettled, a little (or a lot) scared. I don't like horror and blood and monsters, but I crave the adrenaline high from being creeped out. When all was said and done and things were explained, I just was a bit disappointed. I don't know what I expected to have happen, and the end really is the only explanation that sort of makes sense, but I just felt let down. Maybe it's just me and it was the fact that the suspense was over and that adrenaline went away.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Overall, this was a good book. I liked the characters, although there wasn't much time to get to know them. The setting was great. I felt the ending was quite rushed and just missing something for me, I felt disappointed.

This was sadly not the book for me. I did not love the pacing of this book. I would love to try more from this author!

I ended up reading this one for a buddy read and everyone quite enjoyed it. It reminded of Lock Every Door but I loved the changes in it and it caught me off guard. I will look for K. L. Slater's books in the future to continue on with whatever they put out next.

A strange one. A good premise, but the characters let it down. Freya was so frustrating! KL Slater is a good writer, and the plot was handled well, but she has written better books.

I've read a lot of K.L. Slater books, some are brilliant, others can sometimes fall a bit flat. I thought the first half of this was great - the tension was reasonably well built, and I felt concerned for Skye. There were random flashbacks to 1920 and psychological experiments which I didn't particularly enjoy, and I thought these extracts gave too much away.

I'm not sure how believable I found Freya's character. While I totally understand that she wanted to protect Skye and give her everything, she just seemed incredibly naïve and far too trusting.

Because there were only a few characters in the book, I thought the culprit was fairly obvious, though I wasn't totally sure where the book was heading. I found the ending a little abrupt and a bit too convenient. I felt like there were a LOT of questions left unanswered which I found frustrating.

It's a quick and easy read, moments of it might grip you but I think there were too many holes in it for me.

So, this gets a definitely did not love from me.

It’s an odd choice for the author and definitely a departure from her usual style. While that can be fine, and I do think authors have every right to stretch their writing wings, this one just didn’t work for me.

It was a glacially slow read. What was meant as a slow build up of eerie events just read as slow. And the reason behind everything was cartoonish and ridiculous. It was clear early on exactly who was responsible for things and a major reveal was obvious early in the book.

It just didn’t work me.

Still enjoy the author, just not this particular read.

One of my favourite authors I was thrilled to receive this book

It’s such a thrilling book with such bizarre characters and weird things going on you just can’t stop turning the pages

As usual the author draws you in for a magnificent ride of wondering what on Earth with happen next

Highly recommended

Fantastic read, great story, great charecters kept me engaged from beginning to end, couldn't put it down only took a couple of days to read

This was an okay read for me. It seemed like I was reading the same thing over and over, so it was a bit repetitive. I think it had potential, it just didn't quite reach it.

I actually wanted to give this book a 3.5, but unfortunately, NetGalley does not let you do half stars. Is that something that can be fixed? This book falls between three and four stars for me because it starts off well, but does lose the plot somewhere along the way. I know a couple of people who have read this and we all seem to disagree on what the ending means, which sometimes is fun, but other times is frustrating. This is one of the frustrating times. I think this book needed more editing to keep the plot from becoming a mess, but it was a fairly fun ride nonetheless. Very suspenseful and sometimes creepy, which I like. I just wish the main character, Freya, had been better drawn and made decisions that were more consistent with what (little) we know about her. I am very fussy about how female characters are portrayed and this one didn't quite get it right.

I liked this book and thought it was a quick read, but I would have liked more suspense. Thank you to NetGalley for the digital copy in exchange for this review.

K L Slater is a powerhouse in suspenseful physiological thrillers and The Apartment will leave you holding your breath.
Freya is a recently widowed young woman with a five year old little girl called Skye. Without her husband she is forced to sell her house and look for less expensive accommodation. She is perusing the ads in a local cafe when she meets Dr Marsden who just by chance has a perfect small apartment to let in his house.
If something sounds too good to be true then nine times out of ten it usually is.
What follows is a creepy, scary, nerve tingling thriller with a perfect twist that you won’t see coming.
Great read.

I didn't love this book but didn't dislike it either . I liked the writing style and being short chapters made it very easy to read in a couple of sessions. It's a good fast paced thriller but for me it was just a bit cliché and similar to a lot of others in this genre. If you want a quick thriller to get lost in then go for it but I just needed some more depth.

I actually read back in June, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, I never got around to writing the review. Thankfully, I took a few notes! Here are my pros and cons for The Apartment:

Pros
1. I enjoyed the beginning of the novel. I thought the story was set up well and I was immediately intrigued and drawn in to what was happening.
2. The cast of characters were effectively creepy and mysterious.
3. The Adder House felt like it was a character itself. The unsettling atmosphere was well-developed.
4. I felt bad for the daughter when she had to move away from her friends. For me, that was the most emotional connection I had with the book.

Cons
1. Freya is an intolerably gullible character. She basically ruined this book for me.
2. I lost count of the instances where Freya was presented with actual evidence that something illegal, immoral, or downright sinister was going on she ignored it or reasoned it away.
3. Freya talks about her trust issues, yet she trusts a stranger who offers her an inexpensive apartment in a luxury building out of the blue. Seriously? If it seems too good to be true, then it usually is.
4. The ending was dissatisfying.

Summary
This story has potential to be great. It really does. But there were simply too many unresolved issues, Freya was excessively and unbelievably gullible, and the ending was dissatisfying, so it didn't reach "great" in my opinion. Overall, I thought it was just okay.

Thank you NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for a free eARC of this book which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

I love the writing style of K. L. Slater . Just when you think you know what is what and worked out who is who ....BAM! Everyone you thought could be trusted and what you thought you knew is snatched away. You then have to totally re-evaluate your entire theory where the story is leading.
I particularly enjoyed that the main character was a strong woman, who didn’t crumble under the pressures exuded by the other characters around her.
I really don’t want to give away an excellent plot twist.... but it really is an OMG moment that you simply didn’t see coming, but it was slid in so effortlessly that it was a glass shattering moment where certain things all click into place.
I love how the author leaves things open to your own interpretation too, story lines that you can fill in yourself... what actually happened to the unfaithful husband... did Skye break the paper mache bird?

I’m a big fan of thrillers so looked forward to reading this.

Freya is in a cafe feeling down on her luck. Not only has her husband left her for an (older!) woman but he has died and she needs to sell their home and find somewhere else for her and her daughter to live. A distinguished looking man approaches her and says he’s looking for a tenant for his apartment in Adder House.

It seems too good to be true, and it is.

Freya feels like something is off about the residents and she doesn’t feel comfortable in the apartment.

The idea for the plot is interesting but I feel it was quite predictable. I thought the characters could have been better developed, they were a bit two dimensional for me.
I felt like the parts of the plot set in the 1920s just came out of nowhere and it was a bit confusing.

The ending was a bit too cliche and convenient for me and it felt a bit rushed. I would have liked some more tension and suspense.

This is an easy read with nice short chapters.

I liked the bright cover, very eye catching.

2.5 stars rounded up to 3.