This book has so many surprising revelations. While I would have preferred for the story not to bounce from present to future it was still a good story. Wow to how it ends and what leads up to it, so shocking.
If you are looking for a good thriller, you won’t be disappointed with The Day AfterThe Party.

While I like reading this authors books this one just couldn't keep my interest! I couldn't connect with the characters of the story!
Thank you Net Galley and Bookouture for allowing me to read and review the book!

Thank you for the advanced reader copy! I enjoyed this book, but not as much as some thrillers. The narrators were fairly unreliable and the story played out a little bit silly to me. I did find myself invested in the plot and curious how it would play out, but overall the story fell a bit short for me.

Holy moly what a roller coaster of emotions!! I could not put this book down! A real page turner! I love how this was written, going back and forth between present day and the past. It kept you hooked! The book is thrilling and exciting. A perfect psychological thriller! It is not what you expect and I was second guessing what happened until the very end! Just perfect!

Wow I ended up reading this in one sitting . I love this so much it was a great mystery trying to figure out what happened and why alsoooo yes the husband was so sus the whole time it was weird. Either way I loved it I give it 1000 stars and I also loved the cover art it was very on theme.

The Day After the Party by Nicole Trope
⭐️⭐️/5

I need to premise this review by saying I do enjoy this author. I've read books by her previously and enjoyed them. This one, however. It just did not work. The build-up was very slow. I found myself getting bored. Which means I'm not putting much effort into it anymore. Followed by confusion about which character was chich and what part of the dual timeline we were reading about. And the anticlimactic ending sealed it for me.
Then inevitably I learned I just didn't vibe with any character. Not one was likable ... and not one character was enjoyed because of their devious nature. I wanted so badly to love this as the author is a favorite and the premise sounded great.
In the end, the book felt more like a domestic drama than a thriller.

Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture for supplying me with rad books!

Having a best friend for almost your whole lifetime is a dream for most people. But Katelyn and Leah have been besties since an early age, when Katelyn was ignored and neglected by her mom. As adults, Katelyn has almost everything the two girls had every dreamed of, while Leah is newly divorced and childless. A birthday party appears to change everything and their lives will all be altered. This was a good thriller, but bounced between a few different timelines, making it seem a bit fractured.

Don't judge a book by its cover... but that's exactly what I did with this. Obsessed with the cover, it's so well done! Props to the designer.
Did I love what was inside the book? That's complicated.
The prologue was one of the best openings to a book I think I've ever read. The scene was so vivid I could see the whole thing, the spilled drink, the lopsided banner, the balloons suspended in slow motion. I felt physically compelled to find out what happened. It genuinely excited me.
It started off strong, I loved slowly piecing it all together, following the bread crumbs. I was absolutely thrown off by the twist of what actually happened, very cleverly done.
I didn't enjoy the flashbacks. They were very well written and to the point but just not for me. It ruined the momentum I had built.
The characters felt like they all underwent a complete personality change 70% of the way through. A jarring experience and this marked the point where I started to disconnect with the whole thing.
I've read a lot of thrillers and this just didn't hit the mark. It could have been amazing, it was so close but fell flat.
The start and the end (although a bit rushed) were good. The middle was too muddy. It lost its pacing and lost the distinctive voice each narrator had. I will definitely be reading this author again because the beginning of this book drove me wild.

I was given an ARC copy of this book and this is my honest review.

I wasn’t sure how exactly I felt about this book. I took a few days to maul it over before reviewing.

Overall the book dives in an extremely toxic best friendship. Honestly it was like reading my worst nightmare.

The book is good and the ending was great! The pace is a bit off for me. I found bits repetitive are just filler.

There’s a lot of references to cheating and attempted cheating, but this isn’t a romance novel.

The whole memory loss aspect was really interesting. I didn’t even know that was a condition.

Overall it’s a good read. Not my cup of tea, but I respect a good story still.

This book is about besties, Katelyn and Leah they are both in their 30s and have very different lives. Katelyn has a daughter and a husband. Leah is recently divorced and fired. It’s Katelyn’s birthday party and once the guests go home, Katelyn wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the party. Her husband Toby promises nothing happened, and the Drs say this kind of memory loss can happen from stress. Katelyn can tell Toby is lying, and through trail and error tries to figure out what happened. This was a good story overall, but it really fell flat for me in a few different areas. 1. I was more than half way through this book before Katelyn starts to figure anything out and for me, that was frustrating. The main characters are Katelyn and her husband Toby, her best friend Leah, and Leah’s ex-husband who is BFFs with Toby. That’s really it. And only Toby and Leah knows about the memory loss along with Toby’s parents because they are watching Harper, their child. So tell me why it takes almost 70% through the book to get to the truth with this few characters. The lack of communication was infuriating because when she finally figured everything out, it was a simple text and lunch meet up. Simple as that.
2. I liked the alternating timelines and dual POV this was a good way to learn about their lives quickly and effectively, which make the obvious “ lack of communication trope” harder to get through.
The rest of the book was great. But the dozens of pages of simply everyone being like “shhh don’t tell her” was underwhelming and hurt the pacing of the story.

Thank you to the publisher, and Net Galley for this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

The Day After the Party is a fast-paced psychological thriller about secrets, lies, and how far someone will go to tear apart friendships and marriages.

Katelyn wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of the night of her 36th birthday party and finds out she has lost the night's memories due to global transient amnesia. She knows her husband is lying when he says nothing happened but why does Katelyn feel distrustful and why does she all of a sudden want nothing to do with her best friend?

This story follows two childhood best friends Katelyn and Leah and is told in third-person pov with past and present chapters intertwining. I enjoyed seeing how a friendship like theirs could have grown toxic over the years. Leah wanted everything Katelyn had, the devoted husband and the beautiful baby girl but Katelyn dreamed of having the independence and career Leah had.

I devoured this book in one sitting, I loved how it was told, going into the past to see how the events transpired that soured Katelyn and Leah's relationship over time and the build-up to what happened at the party that caused the accident to Katelyn. There are many heartbreaking lies and secrets that are revealed as the story progresses. These characters are deeply flawed and unlikeable. There are two marriages, one still hanging on and the other ending in divorce. The story is predictable but I was addicted to how messy it was with a violent ending and shocking climax.

I liked the development of Leah's character, I almost emphasized with her. Her life was falling apart and she wanted something so bad that currently felt out of reach but wow could you feel the hatred and jealousy through the pages, it didn't make sense if she saw how much her best friend struggled, the grass was not always greener and there comes a time you have to own up to your own faults and move on.

I was happy with the ending and would highly recommend this unputdownable thriller packed with drama and suspense, coming out October 30th.
Thank you Netgalley, Bookouture and Nicole Trope for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Enjoyed this book. I found the friendship between Katelyn and Leah so interesting, and I was surprised by the climax of the book. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC.

Wow this book had me on my toes. It follows Katelyn who wakes up in a hospital to find out she has no memory of the events of the night before which was her birthday party. She can remember setting up the room and getting ready but everything else is a blur and her husband is keeping something from her. As she tries to piece together the facts of that evening she is unsure why she feels such dread at seeing her best friend again and wonder if something bad happened to her during the night. As things get even more confusing she starts to question everything she believed about her friends and her family. Loved this dark thriller.

What a great soap opera of a book! Secrets, lies, adultery, traumatic upbringing, postpartum depression - who knows what's true and what is not? This book puts a focus on Global Transient Amnesia which seems to be a somewhat popular storyline lately, but it was definitely a different approach this time. The book is centered around a birthday party and then some occurrences the years before and the days before and after. The main character doesn't remember everything the evening of the party or the day after, and the reader is going on what she knows. We gradually learn bits and pieces from the past, and it gets heart-poundingly tense about halfway through when things become violent. It was a quick read, and I had a hard time putting it down. But I still have some unanswered questions! All in all, it was an enjoyable read. Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the eARC.

A woman wakes in the hospital after her birthday party having no memory of that night. Her husband tells her nothing happened but she has a nagging feeling that he's lying and that she should stay away from her best friend. She starts suspecting the worst of everyone around her not realizing the truth might be better left alone.

I have yet to dislike a Nicole Trope book. They are fast, easy to read and addictive. This one was so full of unlikeable characters but at the same time, I couldn't help but feel a little sympathy towards some of them. I know all too well about toxic female friendships and how hard they can be to let go of. This was a bit of an extreme example of that but it still maintained a lot of reality to it. I really enjoyed this one and give it four stars.

Thank you Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC.

‘The Day After the Party’ was a fast paced thriller I just couldn’t put down! When Kate hosts a 36th birthday party for herself, she forgets the whole entire night and what happened. When her friends tell her what actually happened she’s not sure she can believe them. Her best friend Leah has always been there for her, but is something going on between her best friend and her husband? A great read!

Holly cow this was a fast paced packed thriller. I finished in 2 days and did not want to put it down. Just when I thought I knew what was going bam I was proven wrong! I was not expecting the ending but enjoyed this read.

I enjoyed it enough I will recommend it to my friend and audiences.

A story of toxic friendships and unhealthy relationships.

You know when you marry the man that your BFF used to go out with it's going to end in disaster, even though said BFF said she was 'fine' about it. (We all know what that means!)

None of the characters were very likeable, although my fave part of the story was when the girls were younger and how their friendship began.

Not quite the big twist I was anticipating at the end, but a decent read.

Thanks to netgalley for the opportunity to review this book this is my honest opinion

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. This was a quick read that I liked. I don’t think I’ll rave about it but it was fast paced with a few good twists!

This book was such a weirdly difficult read for me. It should have been a one-day-long buddy read with my friend Sabi ( she is @sabireads1984 on Insta ). We started reading it together a week ago on Friday or Saturday. When we do that, we try to read at the same pace, and we are usually done with a book in one day/afternoon and evening. But not this time.
I had to take many breaks to think, to feel, to think some more. It brought up so many childhood memories of my own and I did not enjoy reliving those. Not. At. All.
All my own issues aside, a week later I finished reading it. And I enjoyed it, after all. The book is the best case of next-level unreliable narrators. You read and you have no clue what is going on there. You know that what you see is not what you get here. But you have zero clue what it is you are getting after all, and if you are getting anything at all.
Now that I’m done reading it, I’m not sure I know what *exactly* happened there. Except for everyone being some sort of crazy. Except for everyone being some sort of a liar. Except everyone has some sort of secret. Except it all being a huge mess and a tangled web of lies and manipulation, and people not getting help. I’m not too sure if there were any jaw-dropping twists and turns, yet then again everything felt like a twist and a turn, there were many, many tiny (and not too tiny) OH moments.
What I really, really loved about the book though: how raw and real all the motherhood and PPD descriptions are. Not a sugar-coated sweetness of glorified martyrdom.
The book is well written, just like all the other books by Nicole Trope are, so there are no surprises. The book sucks you in. It keeps you glued to the pages, and it keeps you interested. It makes you come back to it and finish it reading even a week later, even if you had to put it down for whatever personal reasons (like mine) you may have.