Sophie Kinsella really excels at writing young female main characters who are just starting to figure out life. Her books are humorous and filled with funny situations. This new book is no different. It's very charming and incredibly heartfelt.

I loved the beginning of this book but felt that it went downhill fast until, by the end, it had unravelled completely.

It's a wonderful, fun story regarding a slightly dysfunctional family. Effie carried the story and everyone else is a minor character. Although the story is about the family it is mostly focused on Effie and her feelings regarding the dynamic of the family. Yet, I feel that Effie is not a fully developed character. There is so much more to tell, especially her relationship with Joe. I think there should be a full series on this family has each character has a unique personality. I would love to learn more about Bean and Gus. As always, Sophie Kinsella, created characters that you'll fall in love with immediately.

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Random House and NetGalley for letting me read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Phenomenal romantic comedy by Kinsella! I adore her romantic books because they give you the feelings of talking with an old friend about love. This novel has the eccentric family relationships at the core and weaves in romance around them. I appreciate this as a relatively new mama and as a 40 year old woman. The relationships and secrets unravel with comedy and sadness about people making assumptions and worrying about their role in others’ relationships. I loved some of the hijinks that Effie gets into when sneaking into the party. Truly hilarious and a wonderful escape read! Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy!!

3.5 stars Effie is the one person in her family who seems to have a realistic view of their situation, but her siblings write her off as a pessimist, and her dad has stopped talking to her over a squabble with his girlfriend. Effie is struggling, not having a job or relationship, and her parents split up, and now the childhood home is being sold. She crashes the party to retrieve something, and of course it isn't as easy and quick as she intended. While she sneaks around avoiding discovery (with the eventual help of a couple of the other characters), she learns a lot about the rest of her family and their opinions, and through these discoveries she's able to reconnect and help others.
There are funny moments in the book, but it's not as light as some of Kinsella's other books. A lot of the characters here are struggling with personal issues, anxiety, relationships, jobs, etc. The ending is good, and it is believable. At points the book felt a little long.

Kinsella has a gift for creating the most lovable characters who find themselves in the zaniest situations. Effie’s family life imploded two years ago and now the beloved family home is being sold. Effie crashes the final party for a variety of reasons. I was continually laughing at her eavesdropping positions and what she heard. My most favorite scene was the outburst by the character who always tried to make peace. I adored the reason Effie went back to her old house. A fractured family heals. The ending was perfect. Crash into The Party Crasher. I know you’ll be glad you did.

Sophie Kinsella has written another wonderful story.This book swept me away from my reading chair into the world of her characters.I loved the romance the drama even a touch of mystery.Highly recommend picking up this book your in for a treat.#netgalley#randomhouse

Learning that her childhood home is up for sale puts Effie in a tizzy. After the shocking divorce of her dad and stepmother, her father has moved on with a much younger, much snobbier woman. Effie despises this woman, of course. And the feeling seems to be mutual when Effie is left without an invitation to the last hurrah at her childhood home. So she does want any other level headed twenty-something would do, crash it!

This was overall a decent read. It could be much honestly be much shorter than it is. I really enjoy Effie's character and her past with Joe that comes back around. I would recommend this read.

A really enjoyable read! As usual, the main character is a bit of a disaster (very Sophie Kinsella) who is very human and flawed. This book is about family and miscommunication and how important it is to speak your truth because if you don’t, hurt and misunderstandings will happen. When Effie gets anti-invited to her childhoods home house-cooling (think housewarming but reverse), she ends up crashing the party and listening in on quite a few conversations. All the characters were beautifully written and their stories were intricately woven. Definitely a good book and a must for any Sophie Kinsella fan.

Sophie Kinsella is one of my favorite authors and The Party Crasher did not disappoint! It was everything I love about so many of Sophie Kinsella's books - an endearing but messy heroine, a sweet hero and funny silly antics! Effie's parents unexpectedly divorce and her dad stays in the family home. His new girlfriend is changing everything and ultimately convinces him to sell the house. So they’re having a house-cooling party (opposite of house warming) to say goodbye before they move and Effie wasn’t invited.. But she has something important of hers left in the house so she breaks in during the party to try to retrieve this important possession. Aside from the first couple of chapters, this entire book takes place over the span of 48 hours, which is a storytelling style I've really grown to love in books and movies lately. Effie finds herself in ridiculous situations trying to dodge family members so I was laughing out loud a lot while reading. But it wasn't just funny, it was really heartwarming, too, to see the way all of these antics led to Effie's family getting stitched back together. I would say the romance definitely plays a background role to the family's storyline of saying goodbye to their childhood home but the romance is perfectly woven into all of that in the best way. This was a great read! Thank you to NetGalley and RandomHouse Publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Once again Sophie Kinsella delivers an enjoyable quick read. Always fun and entertaining. Comical and quirky as always but this book adds an element of the whodunit.

Thank you Netgalley and publishers for the chance to read and review this book.

This was a four star rating. I liked how this took in a short time, it flowed nice. I actually liked the family and friends dynamic part of the plot more than the romance. The love interests plot was ok, but I liked them as characters by themselves.

Also my favorite part of the book was the house. It sounded so cool with all the attics and hiding places.


I will post review on blog at a later date.

Thank you @netgalley and @randomhouse for the e-ARC of The Party Crasher!

I’ve only even read one or two books by Sophie Kinsella, but this book sounded amazing, and it was.

Cue ALL the family drama. This family was a hot mess. Effie is struggling with her dad’s divorce and his new (young) girlfriend. Now with the impending sale of her childhood home, she’s not ok and desperate.

Her past comes knocking during a night of sneaking to retrieve something from her childhood home. The man she thought she would love forever, who walked out on her, comes back. I definitely adored this romance, but I wanted more of it and not as a side plot.

There were a lot of stories going on here. We see each of the siblings say goodbye to their past and learn what it means to move forward. To forgive, to stand up for themselves, and the importance of family.

Overall, I loved this book and laughed a lot. If you want lots of drama, try this one.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆/5

🔥🔥/5 (closed door and innuendo)
TW: divorce
Out October 12

A delightfully heartfelt story that pulls on the emotions.

This was my first by Sophie Kinsella and I was not disappointed.

Powerfully rounded, motivated characters that were so easy to connect with and feel deeply for. My heart ached for each of them in wildly different ways. Three adult children handling very real adult issues while accepting the new family dynamic of divorce. There is no easy way to this other than mourning and yes, it's a process.

There's this quote by Thorton Wilder I'd like to share; "There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."

This rings SO true throughout this book. It's a wake up call when you have a vision in your mind of how things were/are and then be jolted when you gain a perspective not your own.

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group and Netgalley for the eARC for my honest review.

Long time Sophie Kinsella fan here, so I jumped at the chance to preview this one. It did not disappoint. I love a good rom-com to escape the world for a little while, and The Party Crasher did the trick.

This was a great mix of romance, family drama, comedy and shenanigans. I definitely recommend that you grab it for a light and quick read.

My thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the opportunity to read this book ahead of its October 12 publication date.

The Party Crasher provides the fun read that one expects from Sophie Kinsella. Effie, the youngest adult sibling, isn't taking her parents' divorce very well. Besides the divorce that caught her off guard, she's dealing with her father's new girlfriend, Krista, a fight that estranges her from her father, seeing her old boyfriend and to top it off, the sale of her childhood home! When she is not invited to the house cooling party - a party to say goodbye to the house- there is no way Effie will accept the anti-invitation reluctantly sent by Krista. That is until she remembers that her treasured Russian dolls are still in the house. Still too stubborn to accept the invitation, Effie decides to sneak into the house while the guests are distracted by the party to retrieve her dolls. Things do not go according to plan. While hiding and sneaking about in sometimes in the most over the top hilarious ways , Effie overhears and sees things not meant to be revealed! There is family drama (lots of it), humor and an old boyfriend. I've enjoyed all the Sophie Kinsella books I've read, and this one did not disappoint!
Thank you @netgalley for the advanced copy of this book for my review.

This may take the spot for my favourite Sophie Kinsella book! The family drama was hilarious and imagining Effie sneaking around different parts of the house eavesdropping on everyone had me laughing out loud.

The main focus was the family drama with romance being a secondary storyline. I would've loved a little bit more from Effie and Joe because I didn't feel 100% connected to their past.

Highly recommend to everyone looking for a light laugh out loud read with a hint of romance.

Twenty-six-year-old Effie Talbot is having difficulty dealing with change in her life: the divorce of her parents, the sale of her childhood home, and her father’s new, younger girlfriend, Krista. When Krista decides to host a “house-cooling” party for the family to say goodbye to their home and Effie is not invited, Effie decides to sneak into the home to retrieve her favorite childhood toy, her Russian dolls, during the party. Alas, there is a lot of family drama that surfaces and is revealed when no one realizes you are listening and watching.

The Party Crasher is about family dynamics and how relationships are healed by communicating. This is a quirky, easy read which will bring a smile to your face. However, I did struggle reading this book when, chapter after chapter, Effie was still sneaking around, hiding in her family’s home during the party. The book does pick up, but the first half felt slow to me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed above are my own.

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n Sophie Kinsella's Party Crasher, Effie Talbot’s childhood home, Greenoaks, has been sold. The Talbots have a “house cooling” party to say goodbye. Effie is the party crasher who goes to the gathering as a fly on the wall would, overhearing all the conversations. She hides beside a rose bush, behind a trap door, in a cupboard, etc, because she knows every inch of the house. Sophie Kinsella brings her signature comedy and romance with some hilarious and ridiculous scenes. Thumbs up!

Sophie Kinsella fans will be quite happy with the author's latest offering, The Party Crasher. All of the traditional Kinsella elements are in place: a likable, but naïve protagonist, a long lost love interest, the requisite best friend, and interesting location.

Effie's parents announce their divorce and when dad picks up a new love interest, Effie is nonplussed. The news that the childhood estate is going to be sold pushes her over the edge and next thing you know we find Effie hiding in the rose bushes.

Of course there's more to it than that, but you'll have to go along and let Sophie Kinsella take you on the ride. It's a good one!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.