If an offer appears to be too good to be true, you might not want to accept it.
Betrayed by her husband, Freya Miller is about to lose her home. She has no clue what she and her five-year-old daughter will do, where they will live, or how they will survive. Then a chance meeting with the charismatic Dr. Marsden changes everything.
He is looking for a new tenant for a flat in an upscale part of London, and he assures her that she and her daughter would be perfect. Not believing her luck yet desperate, Freya accepts.
Little things that don’t make any sense keep happening, but they add up to something Freya doesn’t want to believe: the reactions of people when she tells them she is living in Adder House, rumors of another woman and her daughter living there before, the want of the landlord to install a security camera in her apartment. But why would Dr. Marsden lie to her?
When Freya finally realizes it is time for her and her daughter to leave Adder House, she cannot find her daughter. She has disappeared. Has Freya waited too late?
I knew something bad was going on while I was reading The Apartment, but I couldn’t pin down exactly what it was. I read fast, but I couldn’t read fast enough to keep me happy. When I got to the end, I let out my breath. I had been holding it in anticipation of what was going to happen to Freya and her daughter. The ending was not disappointing.
I was sent a copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. If you would like your own copy to read and enjoy, I’ve put an Amazon link below for you.
Amazon Link – The Apartment
Favorite Sentences:
My stuff seemed perfectly fine in the old house but it looks a little jaded in here, kind of like when you repaint one room and then see how tired the rest of the house looks.
There’s a bit of a strange feel about the people here that I can’t quite put my finger on yet.
The one advantage of being passed like an unwanted package amongst foster families is that it takes a lot to rattle me.
Our imagination has the power to control us and ultimately destroy us.
Why is it that everyone can forget about physical ailments quite easily, but when it comes to mental illness, it sticks to you like glue for the rest of your life?
New Words Learned:
chaffinch – a Eurasion and North American finch, typically with a bluish top to the head and dark wings and tail
chivvy – to tell (someone) repeatedly to do something
fractious – irritable and quarrelsome
koumpounaphobia – the phobia of buttons on clothing
lupin – a plant of the pea family with deeply divided leaves and tall colorful tapering spikes of flowers
plinth – a heavy base supporting a statue or vase
skulk – to shirk duty
About the Author:
K. L. Slater is the number one bestselling author of fifteen psychological crime thrillers. She has sold over two million copies of her books worldwide. She has also written four Carnegie-nominated Young Adult novels as Kim Slater for Macmillan Children’s Books. Kim has an MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband in Nottingham, England.
