Starting this review off with a plea, ‘Don’t be mad at me!’ I do feel a slight moral obligation to be real with you about the books I read. First bit of truth I need to give you is, dang this book was HYPED UP. 
     …. and it did not live up to said hype. 
     What it comes down to, for me, is the amount of hype this book got pre-release put it so high on a pedestal that it’s not surprising it ended up crashing like this. Foley was coming off wild success of ‘The Guest List’ and this next one didn’t hit the mark.  And again, I don’t think it would have missed the mark so bad if it weren’t raised so high with pre-release press to begin with. 
     So let’s start out with the good, why don’t we? It was okay! It was quick, easy reading thriller. Nothing was crazy exciting. It’s set in Paris and come on, we are all drooling over Paris because it feels like something we can’t have anymore.

Now the bad. Let’s start with the elephant in the room, the writing. It was mediocre. It was sophomoric. It wasn’t impressive at all. Which these type of books I’m not looking for poetry here, but it felt so novice. Obvious setups for the reader… lame chapter cut offs to leave the reader on the edge and then coming back to character’s POV with nothing happening. 
     Great transition to the fact that it felt like nothing happened! I know a few other reviewers felt the same. In this book, it felt like nothing actually happened? Which is odd, because I know I read a whole book. It felt like all the action happened in the past and the reader was just there to painfully, slowly catch up to what already happened. At the end we were quickly recapped to glaze over all that action and end the book where the reader could feel all warm and cozy inside. 
​     Another thing that didn’t have changes were the characters. Each character had the same voice/feel. There weren’t any distinctive differences between the characters. I could feel Foley try to give each one their own voice by the way the characters spoke… but it fell flat for me. Every character POV had the same ‘feel’ that sometimes I felt I had to look back at the top of the chapter to check with character’s head I jumped into. 

Now, a few specific ‘misses’ that bothered me enough that I had to make a note about them. These are moments that happen in the book, but shouldn’t give away anything (so don’t worry about spoilers).  #1 Jess found the dumb waiter within a few minutes in the apartment. Ben couldn’t find it? Also, it didn’t add anything to the story, so who cares? Hmm… #2 The French police offer who didn’t speak English could understand Ben’s voice note that until Jess put on noise canceling headphones she couldn’t even hear? Hmm… #3 The residents at the ‘apartment’ gave up WAY too much information when Jess first arrives. This is the big, mysterious family with a lot of secrets to hide yet they all just blabbed to this rando that shows up? I believe Sophie even questioned why she gave up information to Jess so easily … Very unlike what the characters were supposed to be acting like, therefore, very .. Hmm … 
​     I honestly could probably go on, but I’ll leave it with this. I do not recommend. I have to walk away from this experience making sure I don’t let myself fall for the hype in the future. With great success (The Guest List) comes great responsibility to step up your game and The Paris Apartment was really a step back for me.  Two stars.