"The Day After The Party" is a thrilling suspenseful page turner about two women who are best friends since the age of 6. Both of them want more from their lives and their lives are so intertwined that it becomes dangerous.
I have read many books by this author, Nicole Trope, and once again it is a book with very well written characters, the chapter layout is brilliant which keeps you hanging on as it switches between characters and timelines and it's a very suspenseful story!

Omg what a book this was amazing thriller which had me gripped from the off until the very end and what a ending it was. I loved how the characters were well developed going from past to present which helped build the suspense. This is a thriller about friendship, jealousy and betrayal.

Katelyn wakes up in a hospital after her 36th birthday party and having no memory of said party. Now she needs to uncover the truth of what really happened at her party. Can she trust her long time best friend Leah? Can she trust her husband? What actually happened at the party to cause her amnesia to kick in.

Definitely recommend this was a twisty book filled with lots of drama. Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advance copy.

A definite thriller. What would you do if you woke up from your birthday party and couldn’t remember what happened? What could trigger someone to forget an entire night? This is the premise of this book and it keeps you invested in the characters to find out. How far would someone go to get what they want? What is the truth? Another great read by one of my favorite authors.

This book had a similar conceit to an Alice Feeney novel but told in a very different way. There's flashbacks to how the leads came in to each other's lives, how they view themselves and how they view each other and the messiness that comes from their relationship. It moves along ok although I wasn't particularly fond of any of the MCs it keeps you trying to figure out what was really going on.

2.5 stars

Nicole Trope’s latest, “The Day After the Party,” is the story of a woman who suffers memory loss on the night of her birthday, a night when many things go wrong and secrets are made, kept, and revealed. Is her memory loss real, or a convenient way to “forget” things she does not want to remember? 

The book is told from two points of view, and switches between the present and the past. It centers around two couples, one still together and one who have divorced, and the ties and lies that bind them to one another. Katelyn and Toby are married with a small child; Leah and Aaron are divorced and share nothing but animosity for one another and their overlapping friendships with Katelyn and Toby. 

I enjoyed the descriptive way Trope wrote her scenes, but found none of the characters remotely likable, which made it more difficult to care about the outcome of the story. I had a lot of questions about who had done exactly what, and to whom, as the story made its way (slowly at times) towards its conclusion, and while I had not figured out ahead of time how it would end, I did not find the conclusion all that interesting. For a book marketed as a psychological thriller, this felt more like a suburban drama/mystery to me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley for this DRC book. All I can say is wow! What a book. Best friends since 6 years old, Leah and Katelyn go through life together. Leah always had everything and then the wheel turns. When people say they are best friends, are they really truly. Thanks Nicole Trope for putting out another great book

Imagine waking up in a hospital after your birthday party and having no memory of said party. Well, that's what happens to Katelyn on the night of her 36th birthday. Now she needs to uncover the truth of what really happened at her party. Can she trust her long time best friend Leah? Can she trust her husband? What actually happened at the party to cause her amnesia to kick in. This is one multilayered story that is full of twists, and toxicity.

What I enjoyed:
- Dual POVS and time settings. We get the POV from Leah and Katelyn. As well as their past and how their friendship started and has developed over the years
- This book is a real deep dive in toxic female friendships. We really see how their friendship is super toxic and how deep it goes
- No one was really likable. But this definitely kept me intrigued on who to actually trust. Or what the truth was! I kept reading to figure out who was being honest.
- Fast paced and full of twists!

This was an interesting read full of toxic people. But it was fast paced and kept me interested the whole time. The only con I had was that I felt their were a couple loose ends. I am definitely going to check out the author’s other books. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4. Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Title: The Day After the Party
Author: Nicole Trope
Publisher: Bookouture Date: October 30, 2023
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Katelyn spends her 36th birthday surrounded by beautiful fairy lights, friends, and loved ones. The next day, she wakes up in a hospital bed, with no memory of how or why she is there. She does not remember her best friends anger or her husband's awful words toward her. Neither of them will tell her what happened at the party. What are they hiding? What have they done? What has Katelyn done?

This was another jaw-dropping thriller by Nicole Trope. This book had me hooked from the very beginning. I loved how the author developed the main characters going back to their early years, through adolescence and into adulthood, without weighing down the storyline with unnecessary fluff. It helped give us a great background of the characters and how they developed their relationships. The storyline is told in past and present and does branch of from before and after the party, but I didn't find that it was difficult to follow, so those who don't like dual or multiple timelines should not be put off by this. This was one of the more enjoyable reads I've had for the month of September. Thank you, Netgalley and Bookouture, for the opportunity to review this ARC.

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This book was a quick and easy read for me - I finished it in a day! I was anxious to figure out what was going on throughout the entire story, but the reveal fell a little flat for me as I was hoping for some more clarity that I never received by the book’s end. Still an entertaining read, and I recommend you try it out!

This one failed to land for me.
The story was disjointed and the timeline jumped all over the place. The element of suspense was missing. The plot was overtly predictable. It's a relationship drama more than anything.
The ending made no sense. I was confused as to whether she had lost her memory or not. Leah's behavior at the end seemed to come out of nowhere although I'm aware the author was attempting to foreshadow it.
The characters were all self absorbed and unlikable. Both men were abusive and it irked me that Toby was being portrayed as this perfect husband character. I also didn't like that the ambitious career-oriented woman was the villain and the fertile stay at home mom was the model to aspire to.
Not my favorite book. Thank you NetGalley, the author. And the publisher for an ARC.

Anything that Nicole Trope writes is an auto-read for me, so I was delighted to receive this ARC from Bookouture through Netgalley.

Katelyn and Leah have been friends for nearly 3 decades. The roots of their friendship go deep, Leah's family having functioned as a surrogate family for Katelyn after her own family failed to do so. And even though the relationship is not without its issues, they remain best friends in their thirties. But for how much longer?

Because Katelyn aware that something strange is going on. Yesterday she celebrated her 36th birthday, but finding herself in the hospital due to Global Transient Amnesia (GTA), she has no recollection of the events of the previous night - specifically, what happened at the party.

Her husband seems evasive, and even Leah is hiding something. It seems to her clear that something unpleasant happened during the celebrations. The problem is, Katelyn cannot figure out who is responsible for that. And what she doesn't know is that if her memory does come back, it will certainly spell disaster for someone...

This was an entertaining read, as one would expect from this writer. Not as suspenseful as some of her other books, the one was more of a domestic drama. But I will gladly read anything she writes, and it held enough excitement to keep me reading, absorbed. For the most part, the story flowed very well, so I think Nicole Trope fans as well as those who enjoy marital secrets and friendship tropes will want to check this one out.

This book is the reason Nicole Trope is one of my favourite authors, and why her books never stay on my shelf long!
She takes a domestic thriller and fills it with shocking twists and turns, that leave you wishing it was just starting rather than finishing! Told from the POV of best friends Katelyn and Leah, and spanning 3 decades of friendship, I was kept on the edge of my seat throughout!! As always, things are not quite as they seem, and as always, I am left wanting to read another!
Excellent!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ARC! I love her books so this was a treat for me!!

Katelyn and Leah have been best friends since 6 years old! On the night of Katelyn’s 36th birthday party, she has an episode and loses her memory from the night. Nobody knows why exactly, but there are secrets that need to be uncovered!

This is a story about friendship, jealousy and betrayal. The question is who is the friend being betrayed?

An intriguing twisty read full of secrets and betrayal told from both Katelyn and Leah’s POV. I was absorbed by the story and couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I love how the past and present were interwoven to help explain the character’s motives in the present day, they were all so unreliable that I wasn’t sure who to believe and that ending blew me away.

This was a really interesting read - I found myself quite intrigued by the premise - the main character has a specific type of amnesia. Marketed as a thriller but a lot slower paced than the other things in this genre which was nice for a change. Intriguing characters.

Thank you netgalley and publisher for the opportunity to read. Nicole Trope is a favorite author of mine and I’ll read anything she writes. “The Day After The Party” seamlessly weaves together multiple point of views and timelines to tell a story of secrets and betrayals. I would recommend it to anyone who likes twisty domestic thrillers.

I am a fan of Nicole Trope's writing so I had to read "The Day After the Party." However, this seemed to be more of a family drama and relationships story. I give this a solid 3 stars and would recommend to a fellow reader as being in the genre of "women's fiction." Good, but not my favorite story by Ms. Trope. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

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Ok read.
Katelyn and Leah became instant best friends when they met at the age of six. Little Katelyn had a neglectful mother, so Leah and her parents became Katelyn’s surrogate family. Now that they’re grown, it’s Leah who envies the life that Katelyn has built, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it for herself. On the night of the birthday party, Katelyn suffers transient global amnesia (TGA) and can’t remember anything that happened that night… but something definitely did, and if Katelyn remembers, it may destroy her relationships forever.
It wasn't a psychological thriller let alone a thriller. It felt like a family drama.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advance copy.

Katelyn is living her best life and celebrating her 36 birthday with a twinkling winter themed party surrounded by friends, her loving husband, and lifelong bestie by her side. But when she wakes up in a hospital the next day with no memories of the day before and those same loved ones acting sus she has a sense a dread about what exactly happened that night.

My birthday was coming up and the cover for this caught my eye and I’m so glad it did. It was my first time reading a novel by Nicole Trope and it was a great time going down this rabbit hole of secrets and toxic frenemy drama. The story weaves together the alternating povs of Katelyn and Leah flawlessly exploring the mystery of the secrets that are being kept along with the history of their friendship building tension and adding weight to the climax and an ending I did not see coming.

People looking forward to a fast paced mystery thriller with lots of twists and turns will enjoy this. It’s also a really fun birthday read!

I received an advance review copy, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book.

The Day After the Party is a fast-paced psychological thriller. Katelyn wakes up in a hospital bed not able to remember the past 24-ish hours. Apparently, in that time, she celebrated her 36th birthday with a huge party, but then something happened that put her in the hospital and caused her to forget. Her husband says that the party was a success and he doesn't know what happened, but Katelyn knows he's lying. And she suspects her best friend Leah has something to do with her situation. Katelyn fears that something terrible happened at her party, and she is determined to find out what.

The story alternates between past and present and between POVs (Katelyn's and Leah's). Nicole Trope is an excellent author and really utilizes the various POVs and timelines. I have enjoyed all of Nicole Trope's books and will continue reading and looking forward to her future books. The Day After the Party wasn't one of my favorites. The characters were all unlikable and the overall story just fell flat for me. I was able to predict almost all of the twists. It is a fast read and Nicole Trope is a very well-written author. I highly recommend reading her books; however, The Day After the Party wouldn't be one of my top recommendations.