I downloaded this one to decide whether to purchase for our collection, which I did! It may be a generational "thing" but I personally had a hard time connecting with the writing and the characters in this book. That is not to say that I won't recommend it to my customers who love twisty psychological fiction with big reveals! Of course, I will. Thanks for the opportunity to preview this one!

Such a fun thriller, truly could not put it down. Jumping between present day, and Brooklyn in the hipster heyday of 2009, I loved the nostalgia and perfect remembering of that time, especially when Bartz compares it to today's world, and today's New York. A bit long, but totally worth the ride.

Thank you to NetGalley for a Kindle ARC of The Lost Night.

If I had known this was a book about self-centered, whiny, bratty, selfish twits, I would not have requested it.

All the typical tropes are found here:

In a small circle of friends, Edie was the gorgeous, charismatic one. Everyone else was just lucky to be her 'friend.' When she committed suicide, friends were left baffled, especially her self professed best friend, Lindsay.

Years later, Lindsay is still annoying and whiny as ever. When she was young, all she did was sleep around, drink, party and repeat. No shaming here but she doesn't seem to enjoy what she's doing so what's the point?

That's precisely the point, I guess, when Lindsay begins to investigate the details of Edie's so-called suicide, she is confused as to her involvement because: trope #2, she doesn't remember much of what happened that night.

Everyone has a different story to tell; not to mention most of them were all wasted and stoned so events of that 'lost night' are murky at best.

There's not much happening in this contrived, unoriginal plot; beautiful girl dead, unreliable narrator who is a bit of a schlub, moronic friends

There is a serious lack of urgency, no eye opening revelations that you can't guess on your own. Even the ending itself is dragged out and I found myself saying, "Enough already. Just get to the end."

Honestly, I didn't care for Lindsay and her idiot group of friends or frenemies, nor did I care about Edie or what happened to her.

The pace was glacial, the characters one dimensional with a plot I've read so many times before.

I can't recommend The Lost Night, unless you want to read about brats partying and acting cooler than they are, then this is the book for you.

This book was just okay. The twist at the end was pretty great, but it totally came out of left field. And to be honest, I didn't like any of the characters all that much. I would hate to think that my "after college friends" were all so callous and vapid.

Approaching the ten year anniversary of the suicide of her close friend Edie, narrator Lindsey reconnects with Edie's ex-boyfriends, friends, family, and roommates in order to fill in the holes from her own blacked out memories. Now that she no longer drinks, she questions her own memories of the events leading up to and surrounding the night in Bushwick in 2009 where the suicide took place. She is a lead researcher for a print magazine so she does have the right skills to pursue other acquaintances of the deceased, including ex-boyfriends, flings, family, and former roommates. While the ending had a great twist, I had a little trouble getting there.

I have mixed feelings about this one. I felt like it was quite a page turned and had me continue guessing throughout. I am the same age as the characters so I felt a little nostalgic. However i also felt like, especially the main character, was still so immature. Most of the people I know have grown and matured at this point, so seeing the character in that place didn't seem realistic. I'm also not a fan of the twist/what we found out really happened. I don't want to give anything away but really? That's why a 23 year old young woman was murdered? It really has me up until that.

I"m not sure how I feel about this book. I definitely enjoyed it for the most part, and it kept me guessing, but I'm not sure that the ending/resolution/twist was really that great. Overall though, an engaging read.

Thank you to Crown Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced arc in exchange for my honest thoughts.

This is a bit of a mixed bag for me. I think this will really appeal to lots of people. It's a readable book and, even if you think you know the culprit, you still want to read to find out the why. It's a (possible) unreliable narrator tale that keeps you guessing on how much you trust both your narrator and everyone around here

On the other hand, I had a really time with the narrator. I know: we're not supposed to really like her. However, I was pretty annoyed with her most of the time. Maybe it's because I'm getting further every year from the narrator's 33 years of age, but I'd like to think I was never as self-absorbed as she was and it was hard to empathize with her most of the time. Further, the use of the first person slowed the narrative down. There were a few chapters--only a few--written from other characters' points of views. I enjoyed these and would have liked to have seen more of this. I needed a break from the narrator's constant interior monologue.

Bottom line: this is a readable page turner. I didn't hate this novel but was ready for it end about 100 pages before it did.

I really identified with this book. It's a completely millennial thriller, leaning more into the "millennial" than the "thriller," and that was okay with me. I'm about the same age as Lindsay, and I felt everything she was talking about so hard: the sea of uncertainty that was graduating into the workplace during a recession, the fleeting friendships that change your life forever, the ennui and restlessness and inability to commit to anything for fear that it'll vanish (or that it was never "real" in the first place). Need a real peek into how millennials feel and operate, beyond the stupid editorials from baby boomers about how we're destroying mayonnaise or basic cable? Read this book.

Bartz's story and writing reminded me a lot of the TBS series Search Party, minus the absurdity. The last few chapters lose some steam plot-wise, I think, and go on a bit too long, but it's the characters that really matter here, and they're flawlessly drawn.

This was a real page turner first time reading books by her I highly recommend it had a real good plot and alot of on your edge of your seat plot

Close to the 10 year anniversary of the suicide of twenty-three year old Edie, her former roommate and former best friend, have lunch together, after not seeing each other for almost 10 years. Sarah, the roommate, and Lindsay, the best friend, had been together with Edie's ex boyfriend, Alex, smoking, drinking, and partying, that night. As Sarah and Lindsay reminisced about Edie and the night of her suicide, their memories are different and Sarah admits that she was convinced that Edie was murdered and went to great lengths to dig deeper into what happened that night.

This starts Lindsay, one of the most unreliable narrators you could hope to meet, due to her blackout drunken episodes, on a mission to find out what really happened that night. Lindsay even wonders if she killed Edie since she was planning an ugly best friend break up with her and that night was one of her nights of drinking into a blackout stupor. As she begins to gather information into the death of Edie, Lindsay enlists the help of her current best friends Tessa and Damien,

Edie had a magnetic personality and a beautiful head of red hair, fair skin, freckles, and was always the center of attention. Edie also dropped people like rocks and made a lot of enemies in her short 23 year old life. The group of friends lived in a huge rambling, cobbled together apartment building with little privacy, rarely used locks, and people coming and going at all hours of the night, as the denizens partied like the "hipsters" they were. Edie had just been told that her parents were losing her childhood home and would not be able to help her with her grad school tuition. She had also just had an upsetting medical problem requiring being rushed to the emergency room and she'd broken up with her boyfriend, Alex. Even so, two of her roommates, Sarah and Keven (the only one who knew the real reason for the medical emergency) could not believe Edie was suicidal.

Still, life goes on and everyone has put the cause Edie's death in the past, including her unstable psychiatrist mother. But once Sarah and Lindsay have their lunch together 10 years later, Lindsay begins to dig into the past. She had idolized Edie at one time and she had idolized that time in her life. Since that time, despite success at her job and her two best friends, she knows she is stuck accepting the fleeting physical love of men, knowing she will never be good enough to even rate being a girlfriend. Her life and her mindset, in some ways, hasn't progressed much past her wild and loose ways of her early twenties. And she had so many black out drunken gaps in her memory that the past was scratching at her mind, waiting to be remembered even if through pictures, videos, and her friends' often conflicting memories.

The story can seem to go on and on and on as the past is dissected, stories are compared, pictures and videos are picked apart, and Lindsay promises worried friends that she will drop her "investigation". But Lindsay's digging starts disturbing some people, known and unknown and the more Lindsey learns, the more likely she could be implicating herself in the death of Edie. I was interested in the story the entire time I was reading it although very few of the people seemed really likable to me except Tessa and Damien. Then Lindsey digs too deep, allows others to know just how deep she's dug, and all hell breaks loose, not once but twice. I was happy with how the book ended and despite the moment I considered correctly the person who may have harmed Edie, I quickly dismissed that person, so that made the ending even more interesting for me.

Thank you to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC.

The Lost Night is a riveting thriller with an intriguing plot and fully formed characters. Bartz has another hit on her hands!

4stars - Really enjoyed this one. Definitely a page turner and different than some of the recent books I’ve read in this genre

Twisty turning thriller my favorite kind.Drew me right in kept me guessing all the way so well written I flew through the pages& never guessed couldn’t guess what was coming .Highly recommend. #netgalley #thelostnight #netgalley

Calhoun Lofts in 2009 was packed with college students, drugs and drama. Edie is hands down the queen of building with her easy, laid-back style and beauty and the rest of the residents revolve around her like the sun. One such student is Lindsay, lacking in self-confidence, not as popular, and with a dark mental health history that she shares with no-one. Frequently a party location with an "open door" policy throughout, one night in August turns bleak when Edie is found dead in her apartment by one of her friends, a brief suicide note typed on her laptop. Everyone is deeply impacted and stunned, as Edie's personality could fill a room and she frequently talked about the desire to live life fully and to experience all that she could. Lindsay is as impacted as the others of course, with hazy memories of that night due to excessive drinking. But years later, she runs into a couple of old housemates and it prompts thoughts of Edie and the memory that she used to film their antics. Dated technology now, she enlists the aid of her best friend Tessa, and a co-worker to help her to access her old film. As she continues her journey back in time she becomes increasingly convinced that the police got it wrong.....that it was not a suicide. So she sets out to find all the people she had in common with Edie to find the truth. A great story line and Lindsay's vulnerability throughout is real and edgy, her missing memories tantalizingly close. Will filling the gaps be a blessing, or a curse?

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for providing me an ARC in exchange for a honest review.

This book really got my attention. Im always looking for something new to read and this book description immediately had me wanting to read it. The first half of the book was a little slow, the last half I couldn’t put down. I wasn’t able to figure out the twist. I kept guessing wrong throughout the book.

I liked how the book was set in NYC and all the descriptions. I thought the author was spot on in the flash backs to the 2000s, I really felt like I was reliving my youth. I think this would make for a great movie and hope that happens in the near future. Enjoyable, easy thriller.

An uneventful thriller about a lost night, the vagaries of memory, and the insecurities that, magnified by alcohol, might have led to murder . Or did they ?
This clunky novel was way too easy to put down.

4-5 stars. This book is one of those that really gets you at the end and makes your brain turn to mush for a few days. Not many thrillers get me this way, so excited when I get those that do.
I will be highly recommending, reviewing, and using in a challenge in Chapter Chatter Pub closer to release.

What really happened the night Edie died? Years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn how unprepared she is for the truth.

In 2009, Edie had New York’s social world in her thrall. When Edie’s body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it.
A decade later, Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. When a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered—and, worse, if she herself was involved.

What really happened that night Edie died? Was it suicide or did someone stage her suicide? Lindsay is the main character, so you hear mostly from her point of view. I loved this book, it really keeps you guessing until the very end! I also loved the cover art too.

#NetGalley #TheLostNight
The Lost Night
by Andrea Bartz
Pub Date: 26 Feb 2019

The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz..... where do I start?

Well... let's all take a moment to give beauty to that cover! Absolutely love the cover and all the coloring.

It takes a lot to impress me nowadays with my thriller and mystery books. Unfortunately, this one feel extremely flat for me. Let me start out with our main character Lindsay... wow was she painful. I thought for a second I was reading a YA novel... because Lindsay was acting so immaturely but she is a woman in her 30's.

This was the typical "who did it" storyline and I unfortunately was hoping that the obvious wasn't true... but I found out who the killer was very early in. I still didn't understand why the killer did it so I hung out until the end.

But, for one the writing was a bit much for me. I felt like the novel could have been shortened a bit and I found myself skimming/skipping paragraphs because it was some of the same storyline repeating itself. There was a particular scene where the guilty is giving it's reasoning of why etc and this went on for pages!

Unfortunately, this could have been a very well in depth story but it lacked so much that a thriller should. Typical guilty party that was so obvious and not that many twists/turns.

I also felt the characters were underdeveloped and too much on random dialogue that wasn't necessary to the story. I was hoping for characterization to become stronger but it didn't :(.

Overall, 3 stars for The Lost Night.

Huge thank you to Crown Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced arc in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Publication date: 2/26/19
Published to GR: 10/22/18