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The Apartment
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton, John Chancer
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
They say every cloud has a silver lining....
When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse. Within a couple of weeks, Freya and Skye are moving into Adder House and meeting the other welcoming residents. They very quickly feel part of the family.
But just when Freya truly believes all her problems are history, a series of strange, unexplained occurrences begin. It leaves Freya with the unshakeable feeling that even when their apartment door is securely locked, she and her daughter are not alone. Freya thought she’d left all her troubles behind her, yet she soon realises there are problems here that are far more terrifying than before.
For behind the doors of Adder House, everything is most definitely not as it seems.
Old secrets refuse to stay buried, and someone is determined to keep a terrible past very much alive.
The Apartment- K.L. Slater
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- Simon
- 01-09-19
An Author with a Plan!
K L Slater has a clear pacing to her thrillers which tend for the most part to be actually relatively gentle dramas that steadily ramp up until the end where they do kick off just a little. It's a formula that sometimes works for me, and at others it's been a bit of a damp squib despite her high quality writing. From near the off though this one just has a little bit more of an edge to it including ominous cutbacks to seemingly benign psychological experiments that took place decades ago.
A single mum, Freya, and her daughter, Skye, seem to have hit the jackpot when the eccentric Dr Marsden invites them to rent an appartment at the plush Adder House for a very low rent. Naturally not all is as it seems and through a series of increasingly disturbing incidents makes her question the nature of her new home.
For the thriller genre it's mostly fairly mild stuff but it's well-written, thoughtfully paced and the charmingly named Tuppence Middleton is mostly a very smooth narrator. I say mostly because the voice that she uses for the young Skye is almost certainly going to annoy some people, it is just a little sickly sweet If you listen to the audio sample there is an example just near the end of it.
By the end though I felt quite content with the book and it's definitely a step up from one or two of the others that I have read from this author recently. In this genre It's a pint of mild rather than a snakebite with whiskey chaser but as is often the case with Slater it bares some teeth at the end.
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- Jules
- 03-09-19
Not For Me
The narration was ok but the story...good grief. So implausible all the way through and the ending, well I fast forwarded through most of it. You might like it but I wouldn’t recommend it.
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- Podenco Fan
- 09-04-20
OMG KILL ME NOW - That child's voice is unbearable
Great premise ... liked the way Tuppence Middleton narrated the main character - but her daughter SKYE .... arghhhhhhhh, nails on a blackboard, polystyrene in a blender - I tried and tried to settle down and get into it between the inevitable " MUMMMMMMAY" but failed.
I even tried to see it as a comedy voice but it was tooooo toooo much to listen to last thing at night as made me to irritated to contemplate sleep - shame as sounded like a good thriller and had plenty of enticing mysteries but thanks to that insufferable child narration I shall never know ...
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- Mrs E.
- 09-09-19
A bit like a 'B' movie
This felt like such an old style 'B' movie story that would have worked well as a condensed 'Tales of the unexpected'. It lacks credibility and the main character is so naive, to the point that I was almost shouting with frustration at the story line as it became less and less plausible. K.L.Slater is so good at writing about children, but this lacked her usual style and pace.
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- Nicola Grounds
- 11-03-20
Disappointing and didn’t enjoy the narrator
I’m a big fan of KL Slater but this didn’t keep me captivated. I didn’t enjoy the performance at all, particularly the voice of the little girl.
It has put me off reading any more KLS books for now.
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- Weigh In Time
- 07-09-19
Great book, the ending was very sudden
I would have loved the book to have a few more twists and turns, the ending was thrown in the book in the last 20 minutes. more build up and more attempts to make her crazy needed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-19
Loved this book
It has twists and turns throughout. The narration was very good. Enjoyed the story immensely.
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- Fee
- 16-10-19
Another neurotic woman book?
I’ve listened to a few of K. L. Slater’s books. This didn’t live up to the hype for me at least. The ending was very quick but didn’t answer all the questions (which the author did on purpose), there are two interviews at the end. I don’t like that. I enjoy the interviews but wish it was clear they are there because I find it disappointing when I think there is more of the book left only to discover the book ends abruptly. Tuppence Middleton was very good.
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- FELICITY GAINARD
- 05-09-19
Ok
Loved the book , but was abit disappointed about the ending. Kept me intrigued all the same
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- Mrs Sally Cassidy
- 02-09-19
Couldn’t put it down
Absolutely brilliant! Glued to it till the end just couldn’t put it down. Great story
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