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The Bachelorette Party

I mean come on, a group of women away for an overnight? Cue the female drama chimes.

Grab your popcorn, this book is quite a show.

There is no shortage of jaw gaping twists and wide eyed moments. At times, I found myself holding my breath while flipping the page.

The ending ?

Oh hey now, I can’t spill the beans! I will tell you it’s one you won’t see coming .

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The locked-room thriller that will keep you up all night. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.

New Orleans: live music, endless drinks, brightly-coloured attractions, the perfect place for a party…

The bride-to-be
The best friend
The cousin
The mother-in-law
The sister
The groom’s friend

The bachelorette begins on a Friday night; all six women are excited for a chance to escape their everyday lives. But then friendly rivalries turn vicious, and a game of truth or dare turns deadly.

By the end of the weekend one of them will be dead…

With the number of books I've read about bachelorette parties that have gone wrong in New Orleans, I will most definitely NOT be making that a destination if I ever get married.

Rosalee and Archer are set to be married soon, and in celebration five of Rosalee's esteemed guests head to a mansion in New Orleans to celebrate the marriage. There's Tinsley, her cousin with a jealousy problem; Mara, her college best friend with a money problem; Georgia, her husband's childhood best friend who he may or may not be cheating with; Bri, her soon-to-be sister in law with a drinking problem; and Elizabeth, her future mother in law who believes Rosalee just isn't good enough for her future son.

Each of the women have issues with Rosalee and with one another, and when one of them is found hanging on the final night of the trip, detectives have to determine who had the most hate to commit such a crime.

If you love thrillers, drama, and bitchy characters, this is the book for you. I absolutely flew through this one too which is always a good sign. It's fast paced, a quick read, and full of characters you absolutely love to hate.

The story rotates through each of the six characters perspectives, as well as the detectives investigating the crime scene towards the end. I often find it is hard to develop that many characters POVs in one story, but the author managed to do this in a succinct way and I didn't feel like any of the story lines suffered because of it.

That being said, while this is well written and held my attention throughout (lots of good plot twists and suspense points that had me turning well past bedtime), it felt sort of similar to many of the bachelorette-gone-bad stories I've read this year. A good read for sure, but nothing groundbreaking, which led me to settle with a somewhat above the middle review.

ARC Review ~ The Bachelorette Party~

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I have a love for thrillers and when I read that this one was set at a bachelorette party in New Orleans I was excited to see where the story went. The formatting of this book is my favorite, part one being the build up, part two the interview of the suspects and part three the sum up. The build up gave me lots of questions, hinting at a secret each character had and I liked how the secrets were revealed and explained in the detective’s interviews. Even the victim’s identity is yet to be revealed until toward the end. It does make it hard for the reader to solve the mystery along the way as many reveals happen later in the book but I did enjoy that surprise twist of it all.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper 360 for this ARC

A great and thrilling mystery with lots of twists and turns. What was supposed to be a fun weekend celebration quickly turns into a whole lot more when no one can seem to get along. The future bride and her new in-laws, the best friend and even her own family. When the going gets tough, these girls put up a fight! Lots of drama, back stabbing and more in this addictive new thriller!

Thank you to Harper 360 and Netgalley for an arc of this story in exchange for my honest opinion. I had high hopes for this story but was left with a bad taste in my mouth with almost every aspect of the story. All of the character's points of view were exhausting to be in and felt more like middle school drama than adults with real issues. The conflict was not believable and the writing had the potential to become high quality. Still, the arc I read felt like a first draft that had been edited for grammar (but not punctuation, it felt like there were a million ellipses in this book and it killed any tension the author was trying to create). I would be willing to read another one of this author's books in the future when their writing has matured a bit.

3.5 rounded up
This book ended on a cliffhanger
Rosalie is marrying asher

Rosalie bride to be
Asher is the husband to be
Mara best friend
Elizabeth mother in law to be
Bri sister in law to be
Tinsley cousin
Georgia, the groom's BFF (Elizabeth perfers her son to marry)


Asher comes from money. Rosalie does not. Elizabeth doesn't like the way Rosalie dresses like a home body
Everyone is going to a destination bridal shower in New Orleans. Bags are packed flights are booked. Mansion/hotel has been reserved.
It's going to be a trip of a lifetime
That is until one of the ladies ends up dead
What happened? Someone I holding secrets. Someone is getting threatening messages. Get a bunch of women together, and they arrive bound to be at each other's throats

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy of this book. This was an enjoyable, fast read. There were a few plot holes that I wish had been better filled in and the reveal of who did the murder felt like a rush to tie things up in a way that felt like a departure from the previous trajectory of the plot. I did enjoy the mini twist at the end.

This Bachelorette Party would give any Bridezilla hives! Rosalee is about to marry her dream man so what better way to send her off into wedded bliss than spending a weekend in a creepy mansion in New Orleans? What could possibly go wrong you ask? Well, the women invited to the event mostly hate her. Her future mother and sister in law, her hubby’s best friend who is a gorgeous yoga teacher, and her two friends, who may be the type that make enemies unnecessary. Right from the start it’s clear that there was a murder, and each chapter is told from the point of view of one of the characters. They are all obviously hiding something and there are agendas at play. I actually enjoyed this, I had no idea whodunit or how or why. I liked how each character has a distinctive voice, so every chapter sounds different from the rest. The spooky atmosphere gives the read a Gothic vibe and I was invested in the characters. The detective was a little underdeveloped, in my opinion, but I didn’t mind it, since she’s not the focus of the book. Twisty and entertaining.
I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thank you, #NetGalley/#Harper 360, One More Chapter!

Thank you to the publisher for a review copy.

This was a fun fast paced thriller. I didn't know where it was going to go next. It's set in NOLA, now I've never visited, but I hope to someday, but from pictures I've seen I still felt like I was there. The characters were very interesting. It's a big mix of women who although seem like it should be a happy time all seem like they want to pull each others teeth out. I myself don't really have any friends so it was kind of great reading about this group of so called friends not get along. I guess I'm the weird one that doesn't like happy endings to what i read. I think this would be a wonderful thriller to anyone. It would make a great intro if you're new to the genre. I hope to read more from this author again. Let's bring on the thrills, and leave the coconut out of it. :p

What was that ending? That wasn't even a twist. What was the point of that book? I was going to give the book a three stars, because the way it kept all it's secrets to it's chest was ridiculous.

But honestly, the ending just killed the book for me.

I really enjoyed this book, but the ending was so rushed. The first half did such a great job setting up the book and introducing the characters so I was a bit disappointed when the novel ended abruptly. Thanks to NetGalley and Harper360 for the ARC.

A quick read with a lot to unpack. I would say we're more of a novella. Semi-modern day Clue? Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the candlestick anyone?

The setting is a great location with a haunted history. I liked that there was background and architecture included to help my visualize the whole thing.

The characters all vary and sometimes this can be too much, but in this case it was good. It was necessary for the plot. I would like a little more detail but there's definitely a fine line between too much about a character that overdoes it.

The plot is interesting and hits right off the bat. The introduction is short and sweet. We get right to the point here. We're going on a bachelorette weekend, with the future MIL who is clearly not excited about this union. She's also not one to hide the fact that she wants her son to be with his best friend who is along for the trip because she is a bridesmaid. Other characters include the brides best friend and MOH, the groom's sister, and the brides cousin.

The weekend starts off with a tense dinner and ends the night quickly. The next day the bachelorette party continues all day and tapers off with the help of alcohol. Flash-forward to the police station and witness questioning. Each woman is interviewed and you can begin to tick people off the victim list. The victim is unknown for the majority of the story.

We end with something that I wouldn't consider a cliff-hanger, but maybe a mid-season finally that we have become accustomed to with tv shows. There is a lot unsaid and a lot left up to the imagination. I like these endings, but then I NEED MORE. I love would a sequel that is a full novel but I'll take a second novella.

Overall I would give this 3.7 stars. There is a lot of potential for the future of this storyline!

Six women go to New Orleans for a destination bachelorette party, and one of them winds up dead.

I think that if you go into this book because you want a kind of ridiculous, campy, B-movie type of experience, you will enjoy it more than someone looking for a solid mystery.

There is not a single likable character in this book. The women are all either mean or act like they are superior and totes not like the other girls. Sometimes, the over the top bitchiness was kind of fun, but the characters did feel like caricatures of stereotypical mean girls from high school. I kind of hated how they all despised each other. Even though the cousins loved each other, there was hidden resentment; I would have liked at least one healthy relationship between the women.

I liked that we started out with not knowing who the murder victim was. I thought that letting all the women tell the events leading up to the murder, and then having them do an interview with a detective was a neat way of narrating.

Each chapter ended with a cliffhanger, but some of the cliffhangers were immediately remedied or were things that made no change to the narrative (specifically one cliffhanger regarding Tinsley and one cliffhanger about an event in Rosalee’s past).

The prose was fine, and there weren’t any glaring issues.

I feel like there is a trend where everyone is telling mysteries from different perspectives throughout a book with generally the same forced proximity premise. I think this started out interesting especially when you have a setting like New Orleans, but it seemed surface level and a bit formulaic towards the end. It was a quick and fun read.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

A bachelorette party where no one is truly as they seem? Delightful. The characters were distinctive and you found yourself rooting for the bride... and hoping that your least favorite character would be the one who bit the dust. You find out who the murder victim is in the second half of the book and I was not disappointed.

Thanks to NetGalley for this super fun murder mystery!

I really enjoyed this one! An entirely female cast of characters travels to New Orleans for a bachelorette party and one of them ends up dead. With the amount of venom between them, the murderer could be anyone. The story is face paced, well written, and incredibly fun. Definitely recommend.

I received an ARC of this book from Harper 360 via NetGalley in exchange for my honest feedback. I have read other books by Ms. Lynch and really enjoyed them, but this one was not my favorite. However, it is a quick read and the situation (a destination bachelorette party) makes it somewhat fun.

To me, most of the characters were unlikable, and I found the reveal not very believable. However, I did enjoy how it was a secret who the dead body was, right up through the interviews with "witness number xx." I think the author was also trying to throw in a lot of red herrings (Rosalee's secret, the cousin's jealousy, the sister-in-law's strange behavior).

This just didn't really stand out to me among the many thrillers I read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read and review an early copy of this book. The Bachelorette Party by Carissa Ann Lynch will be released on November 14th, 2023.


I didn't love this one and definitely regret not reading the reviews before requesting it. There are too many POVs and the book is just so generic. Maybe it would have been a better fit for me with an audiobook - that usually helps with multiple POV books.

Wow! Talk about clue on steroids! This was an exciting novel , a classic take on who done it. It was a thrilling to get each woman’s perspective of the events and their skeletons they kept. The detective was great at sussing out the murderer. I was intrigued until the end. Well done. I appreciate the advanced copy from NetGalley and this review is of my own opinions.

The story grabbed my attention from the very beginning and kept it until the very end. I read this book in one sitting and I never looked back! I enjoyed how the author told the story by changing the point of view to a different party member in each chapter. It really added to the story and let the reader get to really know the characters. The interrogation chapters were awesome too!!! The characters were built up well and I could not put it down!

This was my first book by this author and definitely not my last!!!

Thanks to HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, and Netgalley for the advanced copy. All opinions are mine.