✨ 3.5 rounded to 4 ✨

We’re all just one secret away from feeling like an outsider.

🍾🪁☀️🩴🕶️ 💀

Alton Road holds an annual summer block party which is usually quite fun and light, however the upcoming year is sure to be one for the books with all the neighborhood drama what with stalkers, new mysterious neighbors, and secrets and lies. Someone will be dead by the end of the night - who will it be? 🫣

This novel had great character and plot development, with a multitude of secrets woven through the neighborhood which kept me guessing what the outcome was going to be. I felt that with all of the evolution and expansion of the story line there would be a large investment in the actual block party itself but that only encapsulated a small portion of the end of the book. The end was quite unexpected regarding the actual events that took place at the party and how plot lines came together.

Thank you to NetGalley for my advanced review copy!

I really enjoyed reading this book. It had a mixture of things going on which lead to an interesting and intriguing read. Enough mystery to keep you guessing and a surprise at the end. It was an easy to read book. I will read more from this author.

3.5 stars from me, but rounding up to 4

"My mom is fond of saying that if everyone threw their problems up in the air, people would race to catch their own."

There's been a murder on Alton Road. Who's the victim? Who's the killer? It could've been anyone. They all have a motive to kill one of their neighbors. Plus, they've all said they wanted to at one point or another. Told from the view points of Alex Fox and her daughter Lettie, follow a year in the life of the Altonites, and see if you can put all the pieces together yourself.

I'd say this book is most similar to Big Little Lies, style wise. Loved the Meadowbrook Community Page spread throughout the book adding speculation. Jamie Day did a wonderful job of keeping me guessing throughout this book! It's dramatic, it's enticing, It's scandalous.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the Advance Reader's Copy of this book.

The Block Party was a riveting domestic thriller. It was so interesting to see the secrets blooming between this family and their neighbors and the way that affects their interactions.

Enticing read! It goes a bit against the classic elements in a murder thriller by playing it out more a classic “who done it” and also who was the victim. I loved the setting on a quiet street where everyone has a secret. I also found the character Letty, hilarious. She’s a teenager and the author does a great job a poking fun at the lack of self-awareness and sense of false importance at the age. A lighthearted murder tale if such a thing exists!

Alex is planning the annual block party, but there’s more drama this year than normal, including a rumor about a murder.

The story is told from the perspectives of Alex and her daughter, Lettie. It starts in the present and then jumps a year back, until the timelines meet and we are given the context of the present day situation.

I liked this story, but it kind of dragged a bit. It caught my attention more at 60-70% but the middle part kind of lost me. I’m glad I pushed through because I wasn’t totally expecting the ending though.

A neighborhood annual gathering with lots of alcohol, miscommunication, etc. If anything can go wrong, it will. Too much like so many others.

The Block Party by Jamie Day
The Block Party
by Jamie Day
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Leslie Beebe's review Feb 27, 2023 · edit
really liked it

The Block Party by Jamie Fay was a tangled web &it was fun to see what happened next to the neighbors on Alton Road . It kept my attention from page 1 until the very end. Great characters with many wecrets. It was fun to watch it unfold

‘Block Party’, by Jamie Day was quite a nice surprise. The book had many twists and turns and depicted the messy lives of five families living on a cul de sac in a upperclass Massachusetts neighborhood. Definitely worth adding to your reading list.

Talk about a page turner! This domestic thriller is one hundred percent stay up late/one more chapter messed up, chaotic fun.

The book starts out at the annual Memorial Day party on a wealthy neighborhood street. Just giving us a taste of that present-day party, it then jumps back a year to show us the events leading up to that day while interspersing comments from a present-day online community discussing and gossiping about what might have happened at that party.

There are so many great characters in this book. So many twists and turns. Part drama, part thriller. I can see this being an excellent summer read for many.

I don’t know if Jamie Day has any other books, but I will be reading them if so. And definitely sign me up for all future books. Get yourself a copy. You won’t regret it.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy.

Thank you St. Martins Press for the chance to read and review this book prior to release!

WOW- talk about a neighborhood I wouldn't want to live in! There is more than what meets the eye to everyone on Alton Rd and the Facebook community page is blowing up! My favorite parts were the comment section on their Facebook page- it actually made me laugh out loud a couple times.

The book starts present day and then the majority is spent reliving the past year. It is told from a main narrator's perspective and then one of the teenage girls' perspective. I'm not sure there was a benefit to seeing things from only Lettie's perspective, and am curious why the author chose that route. I think it would have been a little better with just a narrator or a full cast of perspectives.

I was hooked pretty quicky but then lost some steam about 30% in and struggled to really care about the characters. It did pick up towards the end and there were tons of twists and turns. I predicted quite a few of them because of some heavy hint dropping early on, but the reveals were still fun.

The whole time I was reading, I was imagining it playing out as a TV show and I'd definitely watch it if it becomes one!

Overall, I'd suggest if you're into a slow burn neighborhood drama! This book will be available on July 18th!

3.5 Stars

This one is an interesting storyline it has Real Housewives of drama mixed with teens like gossip girl vibes mixed with a bit of a mystery. Several families mentioned so it’s one to pay attention to took me a few chapters to get super into it but once I kept track of the characters it was a smooth engaging read. Multiple POV but storyline was interesting enough to keep me engaged a bunch of gossip, lies, cheating, drinking & murder! I like drama shoes and books so I was entertaining 🫣
So glad my neighborhood parties aren’t like this one

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Read if you like:
🎈 neighbourhood murder mystery
🎈 dual POV
🎈 dual timelines

I really enjoyed the format of this story, which was part narrated storytelling and part messages between neighbours. It gives us a little tiny insight into the other POVs, and it’s also makes it more fun for me to read 💕
I love a dual point of view! It allows me to see 2 sides of the same story, and begin to put the pieces together slow. Even better this book is also a dual timeline! Again, I love a dual timeline because I have to figure out how all these pieces fit together before the reveal in the end.
I hated all of the characters in this book 🤪 but it was perfect because I never know which never could have committed the crime. They were all terrible and any one could have done it.
This book was really cool because the mom’s perspective was a thriller, and the teenaged daughter’s perspective was like a YA mystery. It was like 2 separate books in one, and I love both those genres!
I did not see the end coming! Which is the one thing I absolutely need in a mystery/thriller. An overall very enjoyable read!

The Block Party follows a neighborhood and the changes that happen in just one year. Murder, intrigue, lies – no one is who or what they seem. Follow the story told by two points of view daughter and mother and things start to unravel, and clues add up. Great characters that bring you right into the story. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

It took me awhile to get into this neighborhood mystery as there are so many characters and alternating narratives.
I stuck with it as it kept my interest. Ales is the main character and she has a drinking problem. Everyone knows it, and if they didn't, the reader sure does because it's mentioned on almost every page. It became very annoying.

All in all by the end of the book. I still couldn't tell you whom was married to whom or who their kids were. Except Jay & Lettie.

Thank You NetGalley & St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of The Block Party. In exchange for my honest review.
This is my favorite trope, a fast paced Cul-de-sac thriller because have all the tea and drama.
A Block Party that happens every Memorial Day. Cup-de-sac is where the most secret are kept. Everything was fun and fine until POP POP💥💥 and someone ended up dead! And the community page of meadowbrook is steaming with some hot gossip! This book had me in a chokehold i finished it in one sitting cause I’m nosy and wanted to find out who the murderer was! And i was actually surprised!!
There were many characters but i was drawn in all the way! This story reminds me of The Mother Next Door.

Alton Road. Beautiful houses. Picture perfect families. Money. Power.

And lots and lots of secrets.

Each year on Memorial Day Alex and Nick hold their annual Block Party. It’s filled with fun, music, drinks, food, and family. Except this year there’s one more thing it includes…murder.

As flashbacks happen throughout the story, readers learn about each family on Alton Road, and the secrets they keep.

This book had many twists and turns and the ending was not what I expected. I really enjoyed reading this, and seeing how each family’s secrets impacted not only their family, but others on Alton Road.

I was a little unsure of how much I was going to like it at first, but it really picked up as the story went along. I was convinced early on that I could tell exactly where the story was going and who would be the victim mentioned in the first chapter of the book, but the author did a very good job of making you believe the story is heading one direction, then flipping it on you.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of this book. I love a good domestic thriller but this one just didn’t do it for me. There were a few fun twists (one of which I predicted ahead of time), but ultimately it felt like the book drug on longer than it needed to 🤷🏻‍♀️ It probably did not help that I didn’t really connect with any of the characters either.

This one was good! A who done it one summer night and takes you back to a year before it happened and all the rivalries and secrets and drama. I like the back and forth. It was very easy to follow and loved the ending. This was my first time reading this author and would read again!