A woman wakes in the hospital after her birthday party having no memory of that night. Her husband tells her nothing happened but she has a nagging feeling that he's lying and that she should stay away from her best friend. She starts suspecting the worst of everyone around her not realizing the truth might be better left alone.

I have yet to dislike a Nicole Trope book. They are fast, easy to read and addictive. This one was so full of unlikeable characters but at the same time, I couldn't help but feel a little sympathy towards some of them. I know all too well about toxic female friendships and how hard they can be to let go of. This was a bit of an extreme example of that but it still maintained a lot of reality to it. I really enjoyed this one and give it four stars.

Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC.

‘The Day After the Party’ was a fast paced thriller I just couldn’t put down! When Kate hosts a 36th birthday party for herself, she forgets the whole entire night and what happened. When her friends tell her what actually happened she’s not sure she can believe them. Her best friend Leah has always been there for her, but is something going on between her best friend and her husband? A great read!

Holly cow this was a fast paced packed thriller. I finished in 2 days and did not want to put it down. Just when I thought I knew what was going bam I was proven wrong! I was not expecting the ending but enjoyed this read.

I enjoyed it enough I will recommend it to my friend and audiences.

A story of toxic friendships and unhealthy relationships.

You know when you marry the man that your BFF used to go out with it's going to end in disaster, even though said BFF said she was 'fine' about it. (We all know what that means!)

None of the characters were very likeable, although my fave part of the story was when the girls were younger and how their friendship began.

Not quite the big twist I was anticipating at the end, but a decent read.

Thanks to netgalley for the opportunity to review this book this is my honest opinion

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. This was a quick read that I liked. I don’t think I’ll rave about it but it was fast paced with a few good twists!

This book was such a weirdly difficult read for me. It should have been a one-day-long buddy read with my friend Sabi ( she is @sabireads1984 on Insta ). We started reading it together a week ago on Friday or Saturday. When we do that, we try to read at the same pace, and we are usually done with a book in one day/afternoon and evening. But not this time.
I had to take many breaks to think, to feel, to think some more. It brought up so many childhood memories of my own and I did not enjoy reliving those. Not. At. All.
All my own issues aside, a week later I finished reading it. And I enjoyed it, after all. The book is the best case of next-level unreliable narrators. You read and you have no clue what is going on there. You know that what you see is not what you get here. But you have zero clue what it is you are getting after all, and if you are getting anything at all.
Now that I’m done reading it, I’m not sure I know what *exactly* happened there. Except for everyone being some sort of crazy. Except for everyone being some sort of a liar. Except everyone has some sort of secret. Except it all being a huge mess and a tangled web of lies and manipulation, and people not getting help. I’m not too sure if there were any jaw-dropping twists and turns, yet then again everything felt like a twist and a turn, there were many, many tiny (and not too tiny) OH moments.
What I really, really loved about the book though: how raw and real all the motherhood and PPD descriptions are. Not a sugar-coated sweetness of glorified martyrdom.
The book is well written, just like all the other books by Nicole Trope are, so there are no surprises. The book sucks you in. It keeps you glued to the pages, and it keeps you interested. It makes you come back to it and finish it reading even a week later, even if you had to put it down for whatever personal reasons (like mine) you may have.

"The Day After The Party" is a thrilling suspenseful page turner about two women who are best friends since the age of 6. Both of them want more from their lives and their lives are so intertwined that it becomes dangerous.
I have read many books by this author, Nicole Trope, and once again it is a book with very well written characters, the chapter layout is brilliant which keeps you hanging on as it switches between characters and timelines and it's a very suspenseful story!

Omg what a book this was amazing thriller which had me gripped from the off until the very end and what a ending it was. I loved how the characters were well developed going from past to present which helped build the suspense. This is a thriller about friendship, jealousy and betrayal.

Katelyn wakes up in a hospital after her 36th birthday party and having no memory of said party. Now she needs to uncover the truth of what really happened at her party. Can she trust her long time best friend Leah? Can she trust her husband? What actually happened at the party to cause her amnesia to kick in.

Definitely recommend this was a twisty book filled with lots of drama. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advance copy.

A definite thriller. What would you do if you woke up from your birthday party and couldn’t remember what happened? What could trigger someone to forget an entire night? This is the premise of this book and it keeps you invested in the characters to find out. How far would someone go to get what they want? What is the truth? Another great read by one of my favorite authors.

This book had a similar conceit to an Alice Feeney novel but told in a very different way. There's flashbacks to how the leads came in to each other's lives, how they view themselves and how they view each other and the messiness that comes from their relationship. It moves along ok although I wasn't particularly fond of any of the MCs it keeps you trying to figure out what was really going on.

2.5 stars

Nicole Trope’s latest, “The Day After the Party,” is the story of a woman who suffers memory loss on the night of her birthday, a night when many things go wrong and secrets are made, kept, and revealed. Is her memory loss real, or a convenient way to “forget” things she does not want to remember? 

The book is told from two points of view, and switches between the present and the past. It centers around two couples, one still together and one who have divorced, and the ties and lies that bind them to one another. Katelyn and Toby are married with a small child; Leah and Aaron are divorced and share nothing but animosity for one another and their overlapping friendships with Katelyn and Toby. 

I enjoyed the descriptive way Trope wrote her scenes, but found none of the characters remotely likable, which made it more difficult to care about the outcome of the story. I had a lot of questions about who had done exactly what, and to whom, as the story made its way (slowly at times) towards its conclusion, and while I had not figured out ahead of time how it would end, I did not find the conclusion all that interesting. For a book marketed as a psychological thriller, this felt more like a suburban drama/mystery to me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for this DRC book. All I can say is wow! What a book. Best friends since 6 years old, Leah and Katelyn go through life together. Leah always had everything and then the wheel turns. When people say they are best friends, are they really truly. Thanks Nicole Trope for putting out another great book

Imagine waking up in a hospital after your birthday party and having no memory of said party. Well, that's what happens to Katelyn on the night of her 36th birthday. Now she needs to uncover the truth of what really happened at her party. Can she trust her long time best friend Leah? Can she trust her husband? What actually happened at the party to cause her amnesia to kick in. This is one multilayered story that is full of twists, and toxicity.

What I enjoyed:
- Dual POVS and time settings. We get the POV from Leah and Katelyn. As well as their past and how their friendship started and has developed over the years
- This book is a real deep dive in toxic female friendships. We really see how their friendship is super toxic and how deep it goes
- No one was really likable. But this definitely kept me intrigued on who to actually trust. Or what the truth was! I kept reading to figure out who was being honest.
- Fast paced and full of twists!

This was an interesting read full of toxic people. But it was fast paced and kept me interested the whole time. The only con I had was that I felt their were a couple loose ends. I am definitely going to check out the author’s other books. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4. Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Title: The Day After the Party
Author: Nicole Trope
Publisher: Bookouture Date: October 30, 2023
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Katelyn spends her 36th birthday surrounded by beautiful fairy lights, friends, and loved ones. The next day, she wakes up in a hospital bed, with no memory of how or why she is there. She does not remember her best friends anger or her husband's awful words toward her. Neither of them will tell her what happened at the party. What are they hiding? What have they done? What has Katelyn done?

This was another jaw-dropping thriller by Nicole Trope. This book had me hooked from the very beginning. I loved how the author developed the main characters going back to their early years, through adolescence and into adulthood, without weighing down the storyline with unnecessary fluff. It helped give us a great background of the characters and how they developed their relationships. The storyline is told in past and present and does branch of from before and after the party, but I didn't find that it was difficult to follow, so those who don't like dual or multiple timelines should not be put off by this. This was one of the more enjoyable reads I've had for the month of September. Thank you, Netgalley and Bookouture, for the opportunity to review this ARC.

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This book was a quick and easy read for me - I finished it in a day! I was anxious to figure out what was going on throughout the entire story, but the reveal fell a little flat for me as I was hoping for some more clarity that I never received by the book’s end. Still an entertaining read, and I recommend you try it out!

This one failed to land for me.
The story was disjointed and the timeline jumped all over the place. The element of suspense was missing. The plot was overtly predictable. It's a relationship drama more than anything.
The ending made no sense. I was confused as to whether she had lost her memory or not. Leah's behavior at the end seemed to come out of nowhere although I'm aware the author was attempting to foreshadow it.
The characters were all self absorbed and unlikable. Both men were abusive and it irked me that Toby was being portrayed as this perfect husband character. I also didn't like that the ambitious career-oriented woman was the villain and the fertile stay at home mom was the model to aspire to.
Not my favorite book. Thank you NetGalley, the author. And the publisher for an ARC.

Anything that Nicole Trope writes is an auto-read for me, so I was delighted to receive this ARC from Bookouture through Netgalley.

Katelyn and Leah have been friends for nearly 3 decades. The roots of their friendship go deep, Leah's family having functioned as a surrogate family for Katelyn after her own family failed to do so. And even though the relationship is not without its issues, they remain best friends in their thirties. But for how much longer?

Because Katelyn aware that something strange is going on. Yesterday she celebrated her 36th birthday, but finding herself in the hospital due to Global Transient Amnesia (GTA), she has no recollection of the events of the previous night - specifically, what happened at the party.

Her husband seems evasive, and even Leah is hiding something. It seems to her clear that something unpleasant happened during the celebrations. The problem is, Katelyn cannot figure out who is responsible for that. And what she doesn't know is that if her memory does come back, it will certainly spell disaster for someone...

This was an entertaining read, as one would expect from this writer. Not as suspenseful as some of her other books, the one was more of a domestic drama. But I will gladly read anything she writes, and it held enough excitement to keep me reading, absorbed. For the most part, the story flowed very well, so I think Nicole Trope fans as well as those who enjoy marital secrets and friendship tropes will want to check this one out.

This book is the reason Nicole Trope is one of my favourite authors, and why her books never stay on my shelf long!
She takes a domestic thriller and fills it with shocking twists and turns, that leave you wishing it was just starting rather than finishing! Told from the POV of best friends Katelyn and Leah, and spanning 3 decades of friendship, I was kept on the edge of my seat throughout!! As always, things are not quite as they seem, and as always, I am left wanting to read another!
Excellent!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ARC! I love her books so this was a treat for me!!

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. The question is who is the friend being betrayed?

An intriguing twisty read full of secrets and betrayal told from both Katelyn and Leah’s POV. I was absorbed by the story and couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I love how the past and present were interwoven to help explain the character’s motives in the present day, they were all so unreliable that I wasn’t sure who to believe and that ending blew me away.