The Day After The Party is a story of friendship told from multi POV. Can someone really forget an entire day?? Let's see. The issue I had was the writing. The POV would switch during a chapter and it completely distracted me. I will continue to gobble up anything Nicole puts out.

This was an easy to read story. The characters were real and I felt like I knew them quickly. The girls had been best friends all their lives but their lives had taken two different paths. There were lots of twists and turns and some darker elements to the story. I wasn't expecting the end!

Lets meet Katelyn, her husband Toby, and best friend Leah, whom she has known since they were six years old. Among others, they have gathered for Katelyn's 36th birthday party. However, when Katelyn looses her memory of that night, she has to choose on who to believe about what really happened that night. She is not even sure she can trust herself to reveal the truth!!

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for an advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review!

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The Day After the Party is a story full of suspense told from the perspectives of two best friends: Katelyn and Leah.

After Katelyn’s 36th birthday party, she wakes up in a hospital bed with amnesia; she can’t remember anything about the party. Throughout the story, Katelyn fights to remember what had happened that night while we see Leah crack more and more over time.

Leah’s life is falling apart after a divorce and losing her job. Katelyn has what Leah considers the perfect life. How far will Leah go to have the life she thinks she deserves?

I thought I had this book figured out and couldn’t see where else the story could go once I thought I had, but I was proven wrong.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since they were six but even best friends keep secrets.

I am usually obsessed with the books that Bookouture puts out but this one is not my favorite.

It was still good. You really watch as Katelyn and Leah’s relationship grow and untangle through out the years with the time flash backs.

There was so many twist and turns you didn’t know where this book was going and then it end with a WTF 🤯

Some parts were just kind of slow. I sat there wondering how long we’d have to listen to Leah complain about her life.

But overall a good book.

Thank you to netgalley for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is my second book by Nicole Trope, and I don’t think it will be the last!

Katelyn throws herself a party for her birthday, but at the end of it, looses her memory and gets taken to the hospital by her husband and best friend Leah. What happened at the party could ruin both of their lives, forever!

Nicole knows how to piece a good thriller/drama together that keeps the reader engaged. I liked how the story went back and forth between present time, and past, telling us about Katelyn and Leah’s relationship as they grew up. I think that the chapters about their friendship as they grew up, really set the stage for how the book ended.
Overall this was a 3.5 star read for me

This was a difficult book to get through.
Even though I loved the setup of the story, it felt a little bit too much soap opera for me halfway through.
The writing, however, was really good. Nicole Trope is a great author, she knows how to balance detail and moving the story forward well. It could've been a bit faster though, I read some, skipped a few paragraphs, read some more... it was a bit boring but I still recommend it if you like domestic drama stories between friends/families.

I was surprised I enjoyed this book so much, could barely put it down as I was on the edge of my seat. Excited to read more from Trope!

I absolutely loved this book . It had plenty of intrigue to keep you guessing and it definitely keeps you up reading late at night . I loved the two female characters despite their flaws . I do enjoy reading this author’s books and look forward to the next . 5 stars from me

Nicole Trope writes with such heart, honesty and creates very believable characters! Loved this one and was fully engaged from beginning to end. A must-read!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for this ARC!

Here we have Katelyn, who wakes up in a hospital with no memories of what led her there. Global Transient Amnesia is what her condition is called. Her husband, Toby assures her nothing out of the ordinary happened and he hasn’t a clue to what brought it on.

What happened before? Katelyn was having her 36th birthday party. Her best friend Leah was there and many others. Did Katelyn do something absolutely hideous, considering she was drunk? Did someone else do something? Say something? Did Toby or Leah reveal something?

We get snippets of clues during the party and afterward. I didn’t really feel there were any revelations that were shockers. We could see this stuff a mile away. For me, the best parts of the story were flashbacks throughout Leah and Katelyn’s childhood, starting from the age of 6 (which was sweet btw).

I’d like to thank NetGalley, Bookouture, and Nicole Trope for my ARC. All opinions are my own. Release date in a few days October 30, 2023
3 ⭐️

I really liked this one! This book had many twists and turns I wasn’t expecting. It all begins with Katelyn and Leah meeting through school as friends. Katelyn has a complicated mother and Leah and her family take her under their wing, and a true friendship is formed. Or so you think, fast forward to years later and it all begins to unravel. Katelyn throws herself a 36th Birthday party and that’s where things start to really heat up.
I found this to be a quick, hard to put down book, because I needed to know what was going to happen next.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC.

I’m still not sure how i feel about this book. I was definitely reading in anticipation to see what happened BUT there were a lot of plot holes and the ending felt rushed and fell flat.

I was really excited about this book. I loved the premise, but it fell a bit flat for me. I kept waiting for some huge twist that never came, and didn’t care for the ending. This is a great book for someone who is new to thrillers/suspense books! Thanks NetGalley for the ARC!

Leah and Katelyn have been best friends since they were 6. Katelyn had a difficult childhood when she was taken care of by Leah’s parent and they basically became sisters. They went thru life together; marriage, divorce, infertility, depression … one always being there for the other. Cleaning up after Her 36th birthday party (not sure why the number is significant but it’s mentioned a few times throughout the book), Katelyn starts acting strangely. She is rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with TGA, Transient Global Amnesia, that can be brought on by stress. As she tries to unravel the mystery of what happened, secrets lies and betrayal come to light. Can anyone be trusted?

The premise was so intriguing to me, the cover inviting. Unfortunately I was disappointed in the execution. Told in 3rd person, with alternating Leah and Katelyn’s current, young and mid story. It was easy to keep track of and usually I would have enjoyed it, somehow this just didn’t work. It was slow moving and disjointed. I really couldn’t connect with any of the characters.

Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC. This is my honest opinion.

So disappointed--honestly I quit at 55 %. Both females got on my nerves. There was such potential when they met as children but as adults it was just too much entitled jealous predicatable behavior that got on my nerves. the back and forth between the chapters was so impersonal at one point I forgot whether I was readign about Leah or Katelyn and then realized it kind of didn't even matter. I just did not even care to get to the end as I disliked both of them as well as the men in their life. The only person I felt bad for was the little girl. Even both of their moms were unlikeable when I am sure only one was suppoed to be that way. IDK

Thanks to #NetGalley and #Bookouture for the ARC #TheDayAfterTheParty by #NicoleTrope. This thrilling book about drama, secrets and friendships is amazing and I couldn’t put it down. Loved it!

I really liked the premise of the story - it had strong characters and set up the suspense pretty quickly! For some reason, then the action just...stopped. It dragged on quite a bit to the point I had to keep putting it down. Once I got to about the 3/4 point, then it picked back up and I couldn't stop reading! From that point, it was nonstop action, drama, and cliffhangers! I would have preferred to see more writing like that throughout the middle of the novel. Other than that, I thought Katelyn was a great main character and the story had a great twist at the end! This is my first read from Trope but certainly not my last!

It’s Katelyn’s 36th birthday party and everything is going to be amazing. All Katelyn’s friends and family are coming, the food and drink stations are ready, the decorations are up and the whole family is dressed perfectly.

Katelyn then wakes up in the hospital and has lost her memory, and the doctors are saying she has TGA.

Katelyn’s husband Toby, and best friend since childhood, Leah, are telling her everything is fine and “nothing” is wrong, but things are not adding up and they aren’t telling her the truth. She always knows when her husband is lying…

What really happened at the party?

This was a fun read, it had scandals galore, toxic relationships and lots of secrets.

I’ve been quite busy and stressed with work while reading this book, and I had such a hard time differentiating between Katelyn and Leah with this being written in third person, and dual POV. This has never happened to me before, but I am blaming the stress and not the writing. It did feel quite repetitive at times too and other times I wanted to know more but I was cut short.

Thank you NetGalley, Nicole Trope and Bookouture for allowing me to read this book before it’s release 📚💫

“The perfect birthday or the perfect nightmare?”

The Day After the Party by Nicole Trope is a fast paced page turner I couldn’t put down. It kept me guessing until the very end.
The way this story slowly unfolds was very well done. I am a big fan of Nicole Trope’s books for the way she always writes really twisted situations and characters that are very interesting and this book did not disappoint!
A fast paced read that had me turning the pages as the intensity built, The Day After the Party is fun, entertaining and thoroughly addictive that had me hooked from the very first page. What a crazy ride! Absolutely brilliant. Loved every moment of it. And that ending...chilling.
Nicole Trope skillfully keeps readers engaged and guessing until she unveils her signature twist towards the end of the story

I would like to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ahead of its publication date in return for my honest review.