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It oozes aristocracy and opulence though it’s biggest draw comes from the ornate stone gargoyles adorning the building like odious watchdogs.Īll Jules has to do is apartment sit until they find a new tenant for a recently emptied unit. An ad in the paper seeks someone for a top-secret job at the Bartholomew, one of the most exclusive old apartment buildings in New York. She’s hit rock bottom when the perfect opportunity falls into her lap. Lock Every Door follows Jules, a woman down on her luck with nothing but a few hundred dollars to her name.

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We\’re not going to know too much about most of them until the near-end of the book. We get one-dimensional rich people and know even less about their assistants (medical staff, doormen, etc.). The performance is well-done the writing itself isn\’t too over the top, though much of the plot is the characters, minus our protagonist, are not well-developed and rounded out. You will likely be able to figure things out about 65% of the way through, or sooner if you paid attention to the little details about what has been said or shared about the building and the people living in it, and more importantly what hasn\’t (been shared).

There are a few misleading twists and turns, but, ultimately, the book is a solid, suspenseful, at times predictable read. You just have to dig a little deeper into \”if it is too good to be true….\” It is certainly more sinister and upsetting than you imagine. If you start to question why the apartment sitters of the Bartholomew building really can\’t have visitors, spend nights away, or bother the elite residents, and why there is so much odd turnover of temporary residents, you\’ll get what the story is actually about.

This book addresses the disparity between those who have money, power, and privilege and how they see those of us who have very little (struggling to find gainful employment, between living situations, little to no money, etc.) in comparison.

I\’m just going to get into my general assessment of the book. I won\’t rewrite the book jacket bio here.