This book was a good book. I had expected a little more exciting and thrilling, but it had a good character development and kept me reading. I will be giving a more detailed review in Chapter Chatter Pub closer to release date!

I did enjoy not bond with the characters. Their responses and interaction wasn't realistic to me. The relationships seemed shallow

Oh dear. I really tried to like this one but I just couldn't.
The premise of the story seemed really interesting but unfortunately, it felt flat.

What followed was a bunch of unbelievable and somewhat annoying characters and a milquetoast story. Not for me.

Unfortunately, I did not finish this book. I got to about 40%, but ultimately, this wasn't for me.

The writing was at times a bit amateurish and mediocre - the scenes with the friends reacting to Angie's death were bizarre. None of them seemed especially shocked or upset (perhaps this was intentional), and their reactions rang false. It was as if she was an acquaintance - not someone they purported to know for their entire lives. I did enjoy one of the character's journeys to fame and fortune - and actually that bit had me convinced the story was worth finishing. But then... , there is a hideous passage where the main character describes herself as "fat" about fifteen times, implying that she buries herself in cupcakes, chips and cookies, and that no man would ever want to be with her or even notice her - oh the horrors of her size!!!! Later, we find out she was 5'4'' and 140 pounds - the completely average, healthy weight for a woman her age. I mean, COME ON. This was written by a female author and this is the kind of garbage she's putting out in the world - without even a hint that the heroine's thinking is flawed?

That was enough to send me over the edge. I wasn't enjoying the book enough to finish it, so in the 'do not finish' pile it went.

Special thanks to Netgalley and Severn House for my ARC of Catherine O’Connell’s novel The Last Night Out. This book started out with a group of long time friends coming together for a bachelorette party. For some it was a wild night but for one woman it was her last night. Angie is discovered the next day murdered by one of the girls out on her morning jog .As the police try and piece together what happened that night it soon becomes apparent that no one is above suspicion. The book is told from many point of views, which was confusing at times, trying to remember who was who. However, Ms. O'Connell gets us back on track with an ending that I didn’t even see coming. The confusion of all the characters actually worked in the end.

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Bachelorette parties can be wild, but Maggie knows she had way too much to drink when she woke up with a total stranger. Things go from bad to worse when she discovers her friend, Angie, from the party the night before has been murdered. Homicide detective Ron O’Reilly questions all the women who were at the party and becomes convinced that at least some, if not all of them are lying about the events of the night before. It turns out that someone is determined to make the friends suffer for a past injustice, and Angie’s murder is only the first. A tightly woven British police procedural