Riveting and engrossing!!

In "The Lost Night" we find Lindsay going through documents and videos from a hazy night in 2009 when Edie is found dead near a suicide note at the end of a long drunken night. Back then they Lindsay along with her friends had just recently graduated and lived in a Brooklyn loft while taking the city by storm.

It's been a decade and now Lindsey must figure out if Edie was murdered as she delves into the mystery of that night. An amazing debut novel by this author. Hope to read more in the future.

This ended up being a surprisingly good thriller! I read it fairly quickly and even though there were draggy parts, it was enjoyable nonetheless. Lindsay is coming up on the 10 year anniversary of her friend Edie. She is feeling a bit weird about her life in general and after meeting with an old friend, suddenly she wonder.s......what if Edie didn't kill herself?

Lindsay goes over items from her past and plunges into piecing together what happened that night. The book dragged at times when Lindsay was relieving parts of her last but it still kept me interested.

10 years ago Lindsay’s best friend Eddie, committed suicide after a long drunken night which reshaped Lindsay and her friend’s lives .At the ten year anniversary though, after a chance meeting with one of her friends, Lindsay decides to dig into the final weeks that led to Eddie’s suicide but some memories are better left alone .

The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz is more of a mystery whodunit than a thriller A little slow in the beginning with some annoying characters it picks up pace later on with some interesting twists

I would like to thank Crown Publishing & NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.

Brilliant and an intelligently written debut. I love Andrea's writing and have become such a fan. That ending is what draws you in. I enjoy slow burning mysteries.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

You'll have to wade through an over-elaborated whodunit filled with algorithmic dialogue and the dreary protagonist's laments for some fun nostalgia for a certain kind of North Brooklyn "apartment" building and its 23 year old residents, circa 2009. The twist nearly pays it off, though.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to review this book and to be an early reader via NetGalley! However, I will not be writing a review for this title at this time, as my reading preferences have since changed somewhat. In the event that I decide to review the book in the future, I will make sure to purchase a copy for myself or borrow it from a library. Once again, thank you so much for providing me with early access to this title. I truly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me with any follow-up questions or concerns.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of The Lost Night. My feelings on this one are very mixed...I did not like the characters (found them to be a bunch of self-centered, whiny brats) but I enjoyed the author’s telling of the story. The story was more of a slow burn that deals with some heavy topics. It might be great for those who don’t regular read mystery novels as it lacks some of the fast paced excitement that I’ve come to expect.

This was an interesting mystery/suspense novel with a rather unlikeable lead narrator. Or maybe it was just me who didn't really like Lindsay. At 33, I would expect her to be more grown up, but maybe it's just because she was stunted by the tragic suicide (or was it murder) of her best friend ten years ago. The story held my attention, but I found myself shaking my head at some of the dumb things Lindsay does. I won't mention them so I won't spoil anything about the story.

While the story is well-written with many beautiful passages throughout, I found myself liking the narrations of other characters more than I liked Lindsay's mainly because I had such a hard time liking her. By the end of the story, I feel like she's grown up a lot, and I didn't see the twist coming at all.

Looking for an engaging book with a great story line? this isn't it. I couldn't fine the story & finally, just gave up.

Modern thriller fans will love this one. Read it in one sitting--once I started. I couldn't stop until I got to the end.

This book takes place on the 10th anniversary of the main character’s (Lindsay) friends suicide. Lindsay is working through the book to uncover the truth behind her friends suicide. I honestly didn’t like Lindsay at all. I found her character extremely unlikable and whiny. For a 30 something year old, she was acting quite immature.
I stayed up late to finish this book since the story just captivated me from the very beginning.
I really enjoyed the ending!!

I got drawn into this book when I came across a blurb from an author I’ve enjoyed, momentarily forgetting to Never Believe a Blurb. Not that The Lost Night is terrible; it just felt like it could’ve been a lot better.

Lindsey is a 33-year-old New York fact-checker; as the novel starts she’s getting together with Sarah, a friend she lost touch with a decade before. They’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of a traumatic event – the suicide of their mutual friend (and Sarah’s roommate) Edie.

After Edie killed herself, Lindsey quickly and completely divorced herself from their friend group, so it comes as a surprise to her, talking to Sarah over dinner, to find that Sarah had for a time after Edie’s death refused to believe that Edie actually killed herself. Lindsey also finds herself in conflict with Sarah over her memories of Edie’s last night – Sarah insists that Lindsey didn’t come to a concert that night that Lindsey firmly believes she did attend (she, Sarah and their friend Alex – Edie’s recent ex – were all drunk and partying on the roof of their apartment building that night before the concert and before Edie was found dead by Sarah).

These revelations about the past trigger something in Lindsey, and she begins to obsessively dig into the past in a search for the truth. An old videotape from the night in question makes Lindsey begin to suspect that she herself may have done something to Edie (they’d had a falling out before Edie died). But other suspects abound, and the more Lindsey digs the more she comes to believe that Edie was in fact murdered.

Edie is a very stereotypical Manic Pixie Dead Girl; everyone was drawn to her and no one really understood her. Lindsey is sort of a sad figure – she idealizes the year she belonged to the friend group that included Edie, Alex, Sarah, and Kevin (another roommate whose gun was used in Edie’s death). At 33, she’s drifting a bit, with a job she’s good at but which is somewhat dead-end, no real romantic relationship except for guy who uses her for booty calls, and only a couple of close friends. She had a troubled childhood that is hinted at for most of the book, but even when its defining event is revealed, I felt left with more questions than answers. I would’ve really liked a better understanding of her upbringing; she seemed to view her parents as villains but wasn’t entirely sure why, or if her resentment was justified.

I seem lately to be reading a lot of mysteries and thrillers where the identity of the killer feels out of left field – this is the third in recent memory I can think of. Despite that, and only so-so prose and characterization, I still found The Lost Night pretty readable, and thus gave it a B.

*Yawn* This was so boring, predictable, and mundane.

This book is reminiscent of a really bad Lifetime movie starring a bad actress from a 90's drama that you end up watching on a Sunday afternoon because you can't find the remote.

The characters were not likeable. Especially the main character.

Do yourself a favor and read something else.

I am so glad I found this in my TBR pile! This was one helluva ride all about that one lost night. The twists and turns were being thrown at me from every direction! I loved every page of this book and the ending stayed on my mind long after I finished it. I highly recommend if you are looking for a fast paced and very twisty read.
Thank you for my free ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The book opens up with a blast from the past. In 2009 Edie is sitting in her apartment, listening to a loud concert/party going on on the roof of her apartment building and though her internal monologue seems normal she ends her passage by contemplating suicide.

Then flash forward to Lindsay, a decade after the prologue where we found out that Edie died on the day of the rooftop concert, in what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Only one of Lindsay's friends from the past suggests that maybe it wasn't a suicide and Lindsay, now a fact checker, starts to wonder what really happened that night because, as we also end up finding out, she actually doesn't really remember exactly what happened the night Edie died.

What happens next is a whirlwind of research as Lindsay delves into her past. She speaks with old friends and hacks into old emails and finds video footage that starts to make her wonder if maybe she had something to do with Edie's death.

This book was very slow-moving and I almost put it down several times. I contemplated just flipping ahead and finding the answer to the mystery but I was just intrigued enough that I wanted to see how it all played out. The ending definitely helped and I liked how it all wrapped up though there were too many little things throughout that I didn't like. There were too many silly technology occurrences and the characters just didn't seem the age they were portrayed.

I was hoping for an awesome thriller. Instead, what I got was a bad version of a Lifetime movie. There wasn't much to like about this book later on. It started out promising and it just went downhill fast.

Thank you to the author and the publisher for a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Hindsight is 20/20...or so they say. When the 10-year anniversary of her best friend's suicide comes along, Lindsay feels the nagging sensation that all is not what it seems. Looking back, she can hardly remember that night at all. In her hunt for clues, she gets dragged further down into the darkness.

This book is not only an excellent psychological thriller, but there's something intensely relatable about its background. Lindsay and her cohorts feel like they could be any young adult from that period of time, feeling their way into adulthood, but remaining in a youthful state of mind. This book is as much a thriller/mystery as it is a narrative on millennials and that odd period of time for them in the waning days of the first decade of the new century.
Andrea Bartz is a very talented writer. I'll be sure to check out her new book coming out.

DNF @ 50%. I’ve tried with this one for awhile but I just can’t pusg myself through it. Even in the beginning I had a hard time getting invested in the characters and the mystery, but I kept going in the hopes that something, anything, would grab my attention. Sadly that didn’t happen. The pacing just dragged on so slowly, and I couldn’t connect with our main character at all. Everything just felt so monotonous and it bored me completely. Maybe one day I’ll try again and see how I feel, but for now it’s a no for me.

After an old friend jumpstarts Lindsay’s imagination, she investigates what really happened the night her best friend Edie died. Her drunken blackouts had prevented her from questioning the official ruling of suicide, though inconsistencies niggled at her. As Edie’s friend, Lindsay had been a fifth wheel to her roommates, but partied hard along with them in their ramshackle rooming house filled with other 20-somethings, some of them musicians whose bands played there, where drugs flowed freely. Personalities clashed, emotions swelled, and friendships ebbed and flowed, until Edie was found dead by a roommate. Ten years later, Lindsay faces her fears to find out the truth. Bartz presents an unreliable narrator and unsympathetic character so well Dear Reader roots for her when she ends up in an impossible situation. Fans of The Wife Between Us, Something in the Water, and Bring Me Back will appreciate this suspense thriller. I was fortunate to receive a digital copy from the publisher through NetGalley.