The Block Party by Jamie Day
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
I would recommend to most

Y'all I binged this book in one day and loved it! The Block Party is set to be released July 2023 and I can already tell it's going to be a summer hit!

"If there's anything more interesting to study than a planet, it's the people who live on it."

Synopsis:
The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other.

On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder.
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This drama filled mystery is for you if you love dual POV and a rapid fire plotline that collides past and present into one nail-biting ending.

Things I loved:
Dual POV
Past/present timeline
Complex plot
Fast paced
Strong character development
Drama, drama, drama!
I was surprised by the ending

I think the genre leans closer to mystery and a bit less suspenseful than most thrillers I read which honestly, my blood pressure could use the break

Wow,what a dysfunctional neighborhood! This book is better than the juicy gossip you hear from the neighborhood busy body. I had no idea that the story was going in the direction it did. These kind of books are few and far between. As we meet each of the neighbors each seems to be holding secrets and we are slowly given clues as to what these secrets could be. Alex is the neighborhood glue it seems. She organizes the block party every year and keeps up with all of her friends in the neighborhood. Samir and Mandy and their son Jay moved into the neighborhood and that started a chain of events no one could have imagined. Secrets get unraveled that involve betrayals and acts of revenge. Twisty thriller with an amazing ending.

The Block Party by Jamie Day was exactly the book I needed to read after an emotional tearjerker. It was fun. It was twisty. It was fabulous!!! The author has created characters that leapt off the page and had me laughing out loud. As a suburban mom who has been to plenty of block parties and can never resist getting out the popcorn to observe neighbor squabbles & gossip, this book was the perfect binge read for me. My first from Jamie Day and I'm already looking forward to the next!!!

Wow. This was my first Jamie Day read but most definitely will not be my last! I really enjoyed everything about this book. Characters kept me in a constant love/hate state of mind. Lots of deep dark secrets blends up the perfect storm of psychological thrillers.
Highly recommend. Fun and addictive
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

This one was a good suspense novel in the vein of Lapena and her books . It about neighborhood drama and murder and the secrets we keep .
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review the book

OMG! This is good! This is addictive! This is scandalous! Grab your popcorns and chill your favorite wines! Desperate Housewives meets Big Little Lies concept couldn’t be so entertaining!

Block Party is smart, twisty, well crafted mystery with bunch of amazing characters. The main story told by two POVs: Alex; fixer, mediator, heavy wine drinker, the good and responsible neighbor, open minded mother and Lettie; Alex’s rebellious, environmentalist, intelligent, observant, misfit daughter!

The events are told by their perspectives. The book opens with Memorial Day Block Party which was detailedly organized by Alex. During the party Alex had too much drink and got humiliated after slipping and finding herself sit on kid’s pool! Her husband sent her to home, ordering not to come back!

After closing her eyes, passing out at home, Alex suddenly gets alerted by sirens! Something happened at the block party! As we get informed from online gossips of neighbors, we understand somebody died at the party ! But who and why? We only got introduced with Alex and the irritating sales man Gus Fisher called Bug Man, Alex’s very angry husband Nick at the first chapter.

Then we moved backwards to read the incidents from one year ago and meet with the main characters.

Alex- Nick and their 17 years old Lettie are Foxes seem like the perfect family. Even though Alex keeps drinking too much, Lettie gets suspended from school. Let’s not forget Nick and Alex didn’t have sex for a long time!

Adairs also seem like having all. Two brilliant sons with great athletic accomplishments, very successful, handsome husband Ken, his devoted wife, real estate manager wife Emily who is also Alex’s sister. But Emily gets agitated as soon as she realizes her husband gets a little more interested in their new neighbor Mandy Kumar. She even plans to hire PI to find out what her husband keeps away from her and their son Dylan is tired to live in the shadow of his star athlete brother, dating with Riley who is also nemesis of his cousin Lettie.

Willow and her photographer husband Evan are members of Thompson family, in the middle of explosive divorce and their 17 years old Riley is keeping very dangerous secrets from them. Lettie knows Riley is the reason for her suspension and she teams up with her new neighbor Jay to get revenge by finding out what Riley is hiding out!

The new neighbors Kumars seem like perfect family but nothing as it seems. Samir, Mandy are both psychiatrists and their 20 years old college dropout Jay lives with them. Samir doesn’t let his wife socialize with the other women in the neighborhood, acting controlling, manipulative.

And the black widow Brooke Bailey ( my favorite character of the book) , sassy, sarcastic, eccentric and absolutely beautiful neighbor, living alone after her husband died at the yacht accident. So many people presumed she killed him and got away with it. Jury is still out there!

Normally I don’t like to read long books with so much characters. It normally exhausts me! But on the contrary, this book made me more energized! I was so intrigued! It felt like binge watching ten episodes of murder mystery series!
The characters are exceptional! The secrets, twists were well crafted. I didn’t want it to end! I had so much fun!

The conclusion was heart pounding and well wrapped up!

This book should be turned into the series! Ryan Murphy should read this book and instead of producing another Watcher season, he should read this book, working on the adaptation into the series!

I’m giving my five stars and looking forward to read more works of Jamie Day in near future!

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

Perfect combination of domestic psychological thriller and cute chick lit- perfect pool reading for the summer. I’ll be looking out for her next book.

My final book of 2022, this was a fun thriller to read. With shifting timeframes, the story begins with a block party and then moves back to the lead up to that party. Right away some of the characters are unlikable, but you just may change your opinion on some of them by the end. The neighborhood chat group is true to form, with some posters being down right catty and mean, others truly concerned about what is going on and some just looking for someone to listen to them about something else entirely. The story keeps you guessing until the end as to who was actually murdered and the motive behind it.

The Block Party is a suspense/thriller that is reminiscent of Big Little Lies; the reader knows ‘something’ happened but the details are revealed through flashbacks. The author creates an intricate story that weaves together the lives of all the residents at Alton Road. With rich characters and an intriguing plot, this is a slow burn that’ll keep you guessing till the end.

Told in a year long flashback, the neighbors of Alton Road will forever be remembering their annual Memorial Day Block Party.
Seduction,, infidelity, secret drinking, drugs, scandal and many secrets are just some of the reasons to suspect each of the neighbors in murder.
As the story unfolds it gets more and more intricate and no one is safe from secrets.

The Block Party by Jamie Day pulls you in right from the beginning. Written from
A few different characters point of view it is the story of a group of neighbors who hold deep secrets from one another until it all comes to a head. I really enjoyed this book and how developed all the characters were. I loved how the ending wrapped everything up as well, great read!

Oh how I loved this book! From the opening pages of The Block Party I was hooked not just because of the set up but the writing style and voice of the characters. The story begins at the annual neighborhood block party and we soon learn there has been a murder but we don’t know the details. We flash back to the party one year earlier and as time passes we find out more about the neighbors and their drama and issues. Part of the story is from the first person by the teenage character Lettie. I adored her voice and how she strung together words and phrases in a fun and witty way. Most of the rest of the story comes from the third person perspective of Lettie’s mother Alex.

Overall it was a fast fun read with some surprising reveals and outcomes, It had clues, tension and drama but never dragged things out in a frustrating way. I think this will be a big seller when it comes out in July.

This is a good book! There is an ensemble cast for the year-long story, featuring neighboring families who live on a cul-de-sac in Massachusetts. Their dramas and secrets unfold, as their lives are connected. This is a good combined domestic drama and coming of age story. Recommended!

I really could not get into it at all. I kept getting a feeling of deja vu when I was reading but there was no way I could have read this before. It just read like any one of a dozen or so books about a neighborhood party. It also seemed to be written at a fifth grade level which was odd given the subject matter.

The Alton Road Memorial Day Block Party is the envy of the neighborhood, especially as the residents of neighboring streets are not invited. However, this year's party is one they will be glad they missed, as it ends in homicide. Members of the neighborhood social media page speculate as to what has happened, who was involved and why, as well as sharing gossip and trashing the residents of Alton Road. After a little intro to the party and the neighborhood, featuring some embarrassing moments for Alexandra (Alex) Fox, who is an alcoholic and one of the main characters, the story shifts to the block party a year earlier. The story then progresses over the next year, as the reader learns more about the residents and their problems and secrets, leading up to the tragic events at this year's block party. The characters are all flawed and several of them, once you learn their secrets, are morally reprehensible. Some of the "secrets" are predictable or not very surprising, but there are also some very good surprises. Characters withholding information, making incorrect assumptions or trying to avoid embarrassment will make situations worse.

The neighborhood's annual Summer block party results in sirens and murder this year. Gossip begins to swirl, and the background of the various neighbors is unraveled as the story goes forward. This is a good story with interesting characters, many secrets, and lots of questions as the reader attempts to solve the murder.

The Block Party, Jamie Day
I was fortunate to receive an early copy of this book, from this brand new author, thanks to NetGalley. It’s hard to believe this is Jamie’s first novel because it is an excellent read and so well written.
The Block Party is set in an upper class, New England, town where every Memorial Day there is a huge party in their cul-da-sac.
The book starts with a murder happening at the annual party! It then backtracks and tells the story leading up to the event. There are 5 families in the neighborhood, each having their own story…or should I say secrets. There are a lot of characters, so it gets confusing, at times, keeping everyone’s story straight, but this was a really great read that any thriller reader would enjoy. This book releases on July 18th!
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The people who live on Alton Road have it all. Money, looks, smart children, and this road is envied by everyone else living in Meadowbrook. At the annual Memorial Day block party, It’s hard to imagine anyone who wouldn’t want to trade places with any of these residents. Be careful what you wish for though because by the time you read the last page of The Block Party, you might see cracks in quite a few of these perfect foundations.
Told from two POV‘s, Alex and her daughter Lettie, we soon discover that looks can be quite deceiving in this neighborhood. Each of the main characters has a distinctive personality,and I had no trouble keeping track of them. We know from the start that the police wind up at the party, but why and more importantly is anyone hurt or maybe even dead?
I enjoyed Alex‘s chapters a bit more than Lettie’s (who is in high school), probably just me but I had a bit of trouble relating to her age, though her issues were quite similar to my own high school days. As for the adults, there were so many flawed characters and so many twists and I enjoyed every cray cray, juicy secret
Two words for this book that publishes in July: Beach Read!!!!

I loved Lettie. I’m not sure she would exist in real life but she was a fun complicated character. The rest of the characters felt a bit forced to me. The book held my interest enough for me to finish it but and this one wasn’t a great read for me. Perhaps it is due to the fact that it isn’t my favorite genre so others may enjoy it more.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an early release in exchange for a fair and honest review.

The Block Party by J. Day, published by St. Martin's Press, is a murder mystery stand-alone. A story told in multiple povs, packed with unexpected twists and turns that kept me guessing til the last chapter.
Welcome to Alex, Nick and Lettie's story, along with these of their neighbors, relatives and friends - intriguing, unputdownable.