Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author for an advanced copy of The Day After the Party by Nicole Trope for an honest review.

This was my first NIcole Trope book and I will definitely be checking out some of her others. This psychological thrilled is told by two POV, Katelynn and Leah. There are multiple timelines in the story as we go back to with the two girls first became friends in elementary school, throughout their lives, and after the party.

Katelynn experiences an event at her 36th birthday party that leaves her without her memory for a short period of time. She then tries to remember what happened at her party that would cause this.

I did enjoy the story, but there was so many timelines and switching between the POV that I would have to double check whose chapter I was currently on. I did find it predictable but it was a fun read.

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…

A good mystery/thriller with good plot twists and lots of atmosphere.

Great enticing cover
An author I usually really enjoy, her books are intriguing and full of surprises
This story deals with TAG, Transient Global Amnesia, a phenomenon where someone forgets a small amount of time previous to the TAG striking, it can be brought on by shock and orgasm amongst other things
The book takes us to the aftermath of a party and what happened, or didnt, at the party, 1 person Kaitlyn just cannot remember and for the other 3 involved this is either good, bad or convenient dependent on what they did that night…
Got to say awful characters and even though Kaitlyn raised sympathy re her predicament she didn’t half moan on about her life!
An intriguing look at TAG , bit repetitive in dialogue and thoughts and I look forward to the authors next book 🤗

On the evening of her 36th birthday, Katelyn throws a party. Friends old and new are there, along with husband Toby, bestie Leah, and Leah’s ex husband, Aaron. At sometime during the evening, Katelyn suffers an ‘episode’, that leads to her being admitted to hospital with memory loss caused by trauma. Having lost over 24 hours of memory, Katelyn is anxious to discover what caused the episode, and feels she is being kept in the dark by Toby. There are secrets and deceptions to be unearthed! Friendships are not always what they seem.

This author is usually very good, but she has certainly missed the mark with this one. Slow, predictable, full of filler, with obnoxious characters, it was a struggle. Billed as a psychological thriller was very misleading. It’s a family/friends drama at best. Will still read Trope’s books and definitely recommend them, but this one is not a winner for me.

Thank you NetGalley.

This book had such an interesting premise! Katelyn loses her memory at her own party. She can’t remember anything, but by the reactions of her husband and best friend, she knows something bad happened.

Truthfully, the twists weren’t near as twisty as I was hoping they’d be. Pretty basic. I thought all of the characters were horrible people.

The jealousy of Katelyn and Leah was so extreme. More of enemies than best friends. There was so much hate there. It did make the story interesting, and going back to the past, made you understand it a bit more.

With that said, the story kept me engaged and I had to know what happened at the party. The ending was sort of expected. Either way, it was entertaining and left you wanting more.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read the newest book by one of my favorite authors. I am always excited to see that Nicole Trope has finished another new novel. Unfortunately this one was a miss for me. The story follows Katelyn and her childhood friend through alternating points of view. Katelyn was at her birthday party and next thing she knew she was in the hospital having lost her memory of the party and all that transpired. Her friend Leah who she knew since they were 6 years old all of a sudden no longer seemed her ally but rather wanted Katelyn's husband and life. Through lots of twists we find out what really was going on and what transpired at the party. Things just did not jive for me. Regardless still worth a read and I will always support this author.

This book has so many surprising revelations. While I would have preferred for the story not to bounce from present to future it was still a good story. Wow to how it ends and what leads up to it, so shocking.
If you are looking for a good thriller, you won’t be disappointed with The Day AfterThe Party.

While I like reading this authors books this one just couldn't keep my interest! I couldn't connect with the characters of the story!
Thank you Net Galley and Bookouture for allowing me to read and review the book!

Thank you for the advanced reader copy! I enjoyed this book, but not as much as some thrillers. The narrators were fairly unreliable and the story played out a little bit silly to me. I did find myself invested in the plot and curious how it would play out, but overall the story fell a bit short for me.

Holy moly what a roller coaster of emotions!! I could not put this book down! A real page turner! I love how this was written, going back and forth between present day and the past. It kept you hooked! The book is thrilling and exciting. A perfect psychological thriller! It is not what you expect and I was second guessing what happened until the very end! Just perfect!

Wow I ended up reading this in one sitting . I love this so much it was a great mystery trying to figure out what happened and why alsoooo yes the husband was so sus the whole time it was weird. Either way I loved it I give it 1000 stars and I also loved the cover art it was very on theme.

The Day After the Party by Nicole Trope
⭐️⭐️/5

I need to premise this review by saying I do enjoy this author. I've read books by her previously and enjoyed them. This one, however. It just did not work. The build-up was very slow. I found myself getting bored. Which means I'm not putting much effort into it anymore. Followed by confusion about which character was chich and what part of the dual timeline we were reading about. And the anticlimactic ending sealed it for me.
Then inevitably I learned I just didn't vibe with any character. Not one was likable ... and not one character was enjoyed because of their devious nature. I wanted so badly to love this as the author is a favorite and the premise sounded great.
In the end, the book felt more like a domestic drama than a thriller.

Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture for supplying me with rad books!

Having a best friend for almost your whole lifetime is a dream for most people. But Katelyn and Leah have been besties since an early age, when Katelyn was ignored and neglected by her mom. As adults, Katelyn has almost everything the two girls had every dreamed of, while Leah is newly divorced and childless. A birthday party appears to change everything and their lives will all be altered. This was a good thriller, but bounced between a few different timelines, making it seem a bit fractured.

Don't judge a book by its cover... but that's exactly what I did with this. Obsessed with the cover, it's so well done! Props to the designer.
Did I love what was inside the book? That's complicated.
The prologue was one of the best openings to a book I think I've ever read. The scene was so vivid I could see the whole thing, the spilled drink, the lopsided banner, the balloons suspended in slow motion. I felt physically compelled to find out what happened. It genuinely excited me.
It started off strong, I loved slowly piecing it all together, following the bread crumbs. I was absolutely thrown off by the twist of what actually happened, very cleverly done.
I didn't enjoy the flashbacks. They were very well written and to the point but just not for me. It ruined the momentum I had built.
The characters felt like they all underwent a complete personality change 70% of the way through. A jarring experience and this marked the point where I started to disconnect with the whole thing.
I've read a lot of thrillers and this just didn't hit the mark. It could have been amazing, it was so close but fell flat.
The start and the end (although a bit rushed) were good. The middle was too muddy. It lost its pacing and lost the distinctive voice each narrator had. I will definitely be reading this author again because the beginning of this book drove me wild.

I was given an ARC copy of this book and this is my honest review.

I wasn’t sure how exactly I felt about this book. I took a few days to maul it over before reviewing.

Overall the book dives in an extremely toxic best friendship. Honestly it was like reading my worst nightmare.

The book is good and the ending was great! The pace is a bit off for me. I found bits repetitive are just filler.

There’s a lot of references to cheating and attempted cheating, but this isn’t a romance novel.

The whole memory loss aspect was really interesting. I didn’t even know that was a condition.

Overall it’s a good read. Not my cup of tea, but I respect a good story still.

This book is about besties, Katelyn and Leah they are both in their 30s and have very different lives. Katelyn has a daughter and a husband. Leah is recently divorced and fired. It’s Katelyn’s birthday party and once the guests go home, Katelyn wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the party. Her husband Toby promises nothing happened, and the Drs say this kind of memory loss can happen from stress. Katelyn can tell Toby is lying, and through trail and error tries to figure out what happened. This was a good story overall, but it really fell flat for me in a few different areas. 1. I was more than half way through this book before Katelyn starts to figure anything out and for me, that was frustrating. The main characters are Katelyn and her husband Toby, her best friend Leah, and Leah’s ex-husband who is BFFs with Toby. That’s really it. And only Toby and Leah knows about the memory loss along with Toby’s parents because they are watching Harper, their child. So tell me why it takes almost 70% through the book to get to the truth with this few characters. The lack of communication was infuriating because when she finally figured everything out, it was a simple text and lunch meet up. Simple as that.
2. I liked the alternating timelines and dual POV this was a good way to learn about their lives quickly and effectively, which make the obvious “ lack of communication trope” harder to get through.
The rest of the book was great. But the dozens of pages of simply everyone being like “shhh don’t tell her” was underwhelming and hurt the pacing of the story.

Thank you to the publisher, and Net Galley for this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

The Day After the Party is a fast-paced psychological thriller about secrets, lies, and how far someone will go to tear apart friendships and marriages.

Katelyn wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of the night of her 36th birthday party and finds out she has lost the night's memories due to global transient amnesia. She knows her husband is lying when he says nothing happened but why does Katelyn feel distrustful and why does she all of a sudden want nothing to do with her best friend?

This story follows two childhood best friends Katelyn and Leah and is told in third-person pov with past and present chapters intertwining. I enjoyed seeing how a friendship like theirs could have grown toxic over the years. Leah wanted everything Katelyn had, the devoted husband and the beautiful baby girl but Katelyn dreamed of having the independence and career Leah had.

I devoured this book in one sitting, I loved how it was told, going into the past to see how the events transpired that soured Katelyn and Leah's relationship over time and the build-up to what happened at the party that caused the accident to Katelyn. There are many heartbreaking lies and secrets that are revealed as the story progresses. These characters are deeply flawed and unlikeable. There are two marriages, one still hanging on and the other ending in divorce. The story is predictable but I was addicted to how messy it was with a violent ending and shocking climax.

I liked the development of Leah's character, I almost emphasized with her. Her life was falling apart and she wanted something so bad that currently felt out of reach but wow could you feel the hatred and jealousy through the pages, it didn't make sense if she saw how much her best friend struggled, the grass was not always greener and there comes a time you have to own up to your own faults and move on.

I was happy with the ending and would highly recommend this unputdownable thriller packed with drama and suspense, coming out October 30th.
Thank you Netgalley, Bookouture and Nicole Trope for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Enjoyed this book. I found the friendship between Katelyn and Leah so interesting, and I was surprised by the climax of the book. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC.

Wow this book had me on my toes. It follows Katelyn who wakes up in a hospital to find out she has no memory of the events of the night before which was her birthday party. She can remember setting up the room and getting ready but everything else is a blur and her husband is keeping something from her. As she tries to piece together the facts of that evening she is unsure why she feels such dread at seeing her best friend again and wonder if something bad happened to her during the night. As things get even more confusing she starts to question everything she believed about her friends and her family. Loved this dark thriller.

What a great soap opera of a book! Secrets, lies, adultery, traumatic upbringing, postpartum depression - who knows what's true and what is not? This book puts a focus on Global Transient Amnesia which seems to be a somewhat popular storyline lately, but it was definitely a different approach this time. The book is centered around a birthday party and then some occurrences the years before and the days before and after. The main character doesn't remember everything the evening of the party or the day after, and the reader is going on what she knows. We gradually learn bits and pieces from the past, and it gets heart-poundingly tense about halfway through when things become violent. It was a quick read, and I had a hard time putting it down. But I still have some unanswered questions! All in all, it was an enjoyable read. Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the eARC.