When Jess needs a fresh start, she moves to Paris to stay with her half-brother Ben. But when she arrives, Ben is nowhere to be found. As she begins to uncover the secrets of Ben’s luxurious apartment and its eclectic residents, Jess realizes that something is deeply wrong. In this locked-room mystery, everyone is a suspect, and Jess must navigate through lies and deceptions to uncover the truth about what happened to Ben.
There were no good characters in this book. There is nobody that you could root for. The characters that were more like victims: I thought they messed around and found out they put themselves in the situation. I understand it was to expose something terrible, but I think they could’ve gone about it in a different way. Our main character was somewhat self-aware by the end of the book, and I could respect that. The neighbors in the book are obviously all made to look like suspects. However, Nick was my favorite character, and I wish there was more background on the character of Sophie.
The atmosphere was fine. It didn’t do a whole lot for me. I heard a lot that this book was supposed to have Gothic vibes, but I didn’t get that.
The writing was rather dry for a thriller. I expected it to be more gripping, and there were paragraphs where the author did try to add more detail to the prose, but overall it just was too much detail. One such sentence almost made me gag, and I’m somebody who never gags. Gross!
The plot itself is the most predictable plot I’ve ever read in a thriller. That is not good. I predicted almost every single plot twist, maybe not to its full extent, but at least the icing on the cake. I was never truly gripped or thrilled, but I was curious how the author would go about all these plot points. They were crazy at times and lacked logic, but overall, this was a fine book and a quick palate cleanser of a read.
3 out of 5 stars.
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