"The Apartment" by S. L. Grey was pretty good, it was a quick psychological supernatural horror. Normally I prefer my horror gory, but this one was pretty well done. I wasn't sure what to expect at first, but after about 50 pages I couldn't put it down. Mark and Steph recently went through a traumatizing home invasion, and their friends and family encourage them to get away for a bit on a holiday. Finances are tight, but Steph finds a great Parisian apartment on one of those house swapping sites (I would never have considered using one of those sites before reading this book, I definitely wouldn't now) and she and Mark make the trip. Right off the bat, the apartment is definitely not how the couple living there described it: it's dingy and musty and not lived in, the entire building is deserted and run down, it's just creepy. There's a weird woman squatting in the garret who warns them to leave, as it's not a place for the living. Haunted by his past as well as feelings of guilt over how he failed to protect his wife and daughter from the robbers, Mark starts to fall apart. They cut their trip short and return home, but unfortunately things don't return to normal, the horror has followed them home.
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