Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since they were six years old. Now, Katelyn is having a party for her thirty-sixth birthday and she couldn't be happier. She has a loving husband, and adorable daughter, and her best friend. But something happens that night and Katelyn wakes up in the hospital the next morning. She has no memory of anything that happened at the party. She is sure her husband and friend are hiding something, but what?

I love that Nicole Trope's books grab your attention from the first page. The story alternates between past and present as well as both Katelyn and Leah's perspectives. While I alternately sympathized with both women, I really didn't like them very much. All they did was complain about their lives and feel sorry for themselves. The men in their lives were equally unlikeable. It was a fast paced read and I found it hard to put down, however, the ending felt a bit flat to me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Firstly, thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the advance copy in return for my honest review.

A woman with a seemingly perfect life wakes up in a hospital after her birthday party, with no memory of the night of the party or the full day she has been hospitalized since. Trying to put the pieces together and sort out her missing memories from the amnesia means uncovering secrets and uncomfortable truths about the days and even years before the event.

A twisted thriller about marriage, friendship, and parenthood.

The Day After The Party was my first Nicole Trope book and it won’t be my last. It was a fun entertaining quick read.

🖤Frenemies
🖤Adulterous affairs
🖤Amnesia
🖤Both POVs

Katelyn and Leah have been besties since they were six years old. But are they best friends or is their friendship filled with jealousy and really toxic?

When Katelyn seemingly gets amnesia for a short time right at the end of her 36th birthday party, secrets and affairs are on full display.

I enjoy this type of premise and this was a fast popcorn thriller for me. Yes it was fairly predictable and a little repetitive as we hear the same things happening from each of their POVs, but I still enjoyed it and I’d enjoy domestic suspense type thrillers this is for you!

I’ll be back for sure to read more from Nicole and appreciate my early copy! The cover here is fab too. ❤️🖤

Book Title: The Day after the Party
Author: Nicole Trope
Publisher: Bookouture
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pub Date: October 30, 2023
My Rating: 3.4 I truly want to round up as I love this author and I liked the ending but 95% of the story is 3= good!
Pages: 243

Katelyn is celebrating her thirty-sixth birthday with family and friends. Their home is decorated with fairy lights.
The invitation read ~
Winter Wonderland is the theme
Dress in silver and white if you want to be seen.
Please let us know if you can come.
27th of May for tremendous fun.

~The Day after the Party - Katelyn wakes up in the hospital.
Her husband if there and has written a note telling her what happened..
She has something called ‘Transient Global Amnesia’ and now will not able to form new memories.

This is my fifth Nicole Trope story. I love her psychological thrillers and look forward to the twists and turns. However this one is more a Domestic Drama and not so much a thriller.
I had a hard time connecting with the characters. In fact, I had to stop to get it clear in my head who was married to who!
I am glad I hung in there – as I do love Nicole Tropes stories.

She tells us in her “A Letter from Nicole” that this story is about TGA and the research she did on it but
also about toxic friendships. Leah and Katelyn had been friends for years – they loved each other yet had
a lot of jealous. To me this part of their relationship was so sad.
This story made me think about my friends – those from my past as well as current and I am ready to do an email blast to tell them that I am grateful they came into my life!

Didn’t love this story but I definitely will read another Nicole Troupe story!

Want to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for granted me this early eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for October 30, 2023

Leah and Katelyn have been best friends since they were six years old, always there for each other. Sometimes though, friendship isn’t what it seems.

After Katelyn’s thirty-sixth birthday party, she seemingly loses her memory, and secrets between friends, and their lovers are exposed.

The Day After the Party is full of twists and turns and is the first book in quite some time to keep me up at night, desperately needing to know how it ends.

Thank you #Netgalley for the advanced copy!

Another great Nicole Trope thriller! This story follows two childhood best friends Katelyn and Leah. We bounce back from their childhood days up until the night of the event. Each woman has their own secrets that are slowly spilling out as Katelyn tries to figure out why she blacked out at her party and ended up with temporary amnesia. She is trying to connect the pieces together to determine what actually happened that night. But along the way, she is unsure who can she trust, even those the closest to her. I thought I had it figured out multiple times...but my jaw dropped at the very end!

Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since 6 years old. On the night of Katelyn's 36th birthday party, she has an episode and loses her memory from the night. Nobody knows why exactly, but there are secrets that need to be uncovered!

This is a story about friendship, jealousy and betrayal. It was like reading a soap opera episode.

The book didn’t wow me but it was a quick and easy read. The twists weren’t that shocking but I did like the plot and enjoyed the book.

Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for granting me access to this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publish Date: October 30, 2023

This book was more of a slow burn instead of thriller. It was definitely a bit repetitive at times, and the ending was a bit predictable.

Super addictive from the very first page & definitely kept you ping pinging back and forth between the two MC. It was hard to tell who was the protagonist and which was the villain.

I also think this book does a great job with outlining the whole “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side” prospect that so many of us get blinded to.. especially now with the age of social media it’s hard to tell what of people’s lives are real and what’s just for show.. so the evil green monster in us can read it’s ugly head for no reason at all.

It took literally took getting 87% into the book for the “thrilling” parts to come.. up until then it’s more of a mystery/ domestic drama type of a story.

I loved the ending though! Extremely satisfying because it was made very clear in the end who was in the right & who was in the wrong & I like it because I feel ambiguous endings with these types of stories can sometimes come across off as lazy writing and this one definitely didn’t disappoint.

The Day After the Party by Nicole Trope

Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since they were six years old. Leah’s parents have treated Katelyn like she is their own daughter because they could see what Katelyn was missing out on at home with her drunk single mother. Now the girls are thirsty six years old and Katelyn just had her birthday party but can not remember anything at all, its like she has amnesia or something her memory is a complete blank and she keeps repeating the same questions over and over again. Leah is pretending to be concerned about Katelyn’s memory loss but its all an act as Leah feels like Katelyn has taken something from her and she wants it back.

Another great book by Nicole Trope! I could not put this book down as I wanted to see of Leah really is as evil as I thought she was.

I would like to thank Net Galley and Bookouture for a copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review

✨ amnesia
✨ besties or toxic friendship?
✨ relationship drama
✨ secrets

I enjoyed the suspense of this story. I did feel like there was a lot of unnecessary repetition which made the story feel very slow. Some things in the story were repeated multiple times and did not need repeated as we already knew the information. Overall, a good book though.

𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 4⭐️
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: Thriller📚

𝙼𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜:
A quick and entertaining read filled with twists and lies.

𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:
Unreliable narrator
MC with global transient amnesia
Birthday parties gone wrong
Quick reads
Alternating POVs
Secrets and lies
Domestic drama
Toxic friendships

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍:
Short chapters

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:
A little repetitive
Slow build up

My thoughts 💭

This book covered themes of toxic friendship, transient global amnesia and the aftermath of childbearing.

The book has alternating timelines and dual POV which enables readers to know what happened in the past and how Katelyn became best friends with Leah. Both characters really should not have been friends. They were in constant comparison competition that left me asking, “but why are they friends again?”

When I eliminated the idea of it being a thriller, it became somewhat enjoyable. I like how the author brought up Transient Global Amnesia which caused Katelyn’s memory loss (although, TGA is more like an awareness raised issue and not the main focus). From reading, I believe the author’s portrayal of toxic friendship should be applauded as she explores how people in toxic friendships do not end it because of that air of superiority they feel knowing that they have what their friends do not have.

I also liked how she raised the aftermath of childbirth as a first time parent/mother. The postpartum depression that hits is never an easy one.

What I did not like are the bits of repetition I encountered while reading, I was confused because I felt I’d read some parts before. I also did not like the characters, they were annoying especially Leah.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for access to this arc in exchange for my honest review.

I have mixed feelings about this book. Not because it's not good, it was an amazing read. I'm torn between not knowing who I'm siding with (between 2 characters). I can relate to one more than the other having been raised with a golden child. I loved the writing style of this author and totally recommend this book.

This book follows Leah and Katelyn’s lifelong friendship leading up to and after Katelyn’s birthday party. While overall I enjoyed the writing, I struggled with how repetitive it was in places. The build up to the end felt slow and drawn out. Due to being drawn out, this one felt predictable to me. I do love a book with multiple perspectives and the author has mastered this once again! The beginning captured my attention and I always love the author’s writing style.

This is about katelyn who wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of how or why she is there. Toby her husband tells her she just slumped over while they were cleaning up after the party. Toby and Katelyn have a daughter named Harper who was at her grandmothers the night of the party

Katelyn has to be taken to hospital and can’t remember events from her party.
I really like this story, was quite believable, characters were likeable.

Katelyn smiles around at her husband and friends, gathered to celebrate her thirty-sixth birthday in their beautiful home decorated with fairy lights. But the next day Katelyn wakes up shaken and terrified in a hospital bed. But she doesn't remember the sweet taste of birthday cake icing, or how angry her best friend was at midnight, or the terrible things her husband said. She doesn't remember the party at all. When she asks her husband what happened the night of the party he says "Nothing." But her blood runs cold at the way his voice lilts slightly. The way it always does when he's lying.

Filled with secrets, lies, postpartum depression, and adultery, I was never quite sure what was lies and what was the truth. Katelyn can't remember her birthday party, but she can remember everything else. On the night of the party, she suffers from global transient amnesia.

When I pick up a Nicole Trope book, I can never read it quickly enough. She never disappoints. The story is told from Katelyn and Leah's perspective. It has a dual timeline that jumps back and forth from the past to the present day. This book is so unpredictable, the characters are well-developed and it has some good twists.

I would like to thank #NetGalley #Bookouture and the author #NicoleTrope for my ARC of #TheDayAfterTheParty in exchange for an honest review.

This book kept me tense and on edge all the way through, and especially at the end. It was a very entertaining read. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Overall I enjoyed this book.
Short chapters and fast paced. Although I did find it repetitive in some places.
Few surprises and twists, but I did figure most of them out. And some things just didn't make sense to me.

Did have me gripped and wanted to read on.

Jealousy, Lies, Betrayal and Deception..

This book was the fast paced, edge of your seat read and I've come to expect nothing less from Nicole Trope. Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since childhood and now as adults they are still besties but they both have secrets and when Katelyn ends up with amnesia things get really interesting. This book kept me guessing, wondering who might be telling the truth and who is lying.