Wow! Exciting from the first page to the shattering conclusions!
Catherine O'Connell really hit the mark on this one! Fast, exciting and lots of drama. Kelly Delaney is tight friends with a small group of rather well to do ladies. She is a runner; only this time she finds her close friend, Angie, who she had been at a shower with the night before - dead. There are already lookers-on and the cops around the body. Kelly is glad to tell the police what she knows about Angie. They had been friends for 20 years, Angie was going through a divorce, and had attended the same bachelorette party as her the previous evening. There had been 6 there; aside from Angie and Kelly were Carol Ann, Suzanne, Natasha and the bride-to-be, Maggie. Three of them went to Rush Street after the shower - that was as fay as Kelly could tell (she wasn't among the three). The same detectives then visited Suzanne and obtained a similar story. It seemed that since the cab let Angie off at her house before Suzanne was left off, that what caused Angie's death happened later that night. They deduced that Angie went somewhere after the cab left.
Carol Ann had thrown the bridal shower for Maggie the night before. When the detectives arrived to take her statement, she felt it best to say her husband came home at midnight rather than the truth: 5 AM. She and Michael, her husband, had been drifting apart. Could he be having an affair with Angie?
The day of Angie's funeral brings some clues as to what happened to cause her death. Albert, a close business associate of Angie's, said that he had seen Angie at The Zone, a gay bar, later the night she died. That as Angie was leaving the bar, she spoke with a tall, good-looking man.
Maggie had slept with Steven Kaufman (whom she met at a bar) two weeks before her wedding. She really wants to hide this information. (Also hide the very cold feet).
Suzanne is very wealthy. She is having an affair with uber rich Vince. Yes, Vince is married.
Just when you're wondering how all of this fits together - it DOES!!! The many characters introduced are closely knit in more ways than first meets the eye. Steven Kaufman is linked to Vince, Carol Ann's husband was the man at The Zone, Kelly tells the detectives about Maggie and Steven, Steven goes missing, Maggie's wedding looks to be in jeopardy and much, much more.
Vince's daughter finds out about his affair and plays a few tricks of her own. Meanwhile, the wedding rehearsal goes as planned and Steven shows up at Vince's house. A super roller coaster ride! Many, many twists and turns, VERY HIGHLY recommend!!!

I would like to thank NetGalley and Severn House for my ARC of Catherine O’Connell’s novel The Last Night Out.



We start the book with the main person the narrator and she explains how everything started and slowly unfolding the story. I love the technique of revealing the end result and then slowly trying to unravel whats happening.



I was trying while I was reading to pinpoint who did kill Angie! I mean I was so certain at one point but boom I was shocked right in the end!



I liked the different point of views which is new for me I usually get tired and confused but to tell you it did help with the story to unfold.



The characters were compelling and I found them relatable even if they were rich or married into rich people.



In overall I loved the book unfold nicely with compelling characters and an ending didn't expect!



So yeah go ahead read this book when it comes out!

This book was a good book. I had expected a little more exciting and thrilling, but it had a good character development and kept me reading. I will be giving a more detailed review in Chapter Chatter Pub closer to release date!

I did enjoy not bond with the characters. Their responses and interaction wasn't realistic to me. The relationships seemed shallow

Oh dear. I really tried to like this one but I just couldn't.
The premise of the story seemed really interesting but unfortunately, it felt flat.

What followed was a bunch of unbelievable and somewhat annoying characters and a milquetoast story. Not for me.

Unfortunately, I did not finish this book. I got to about 40%, but ultimately, this wasn't for me.

The writing was at times a bit amateurish and mediocre - the scenes with the friends reacting to Angie's death were bizarre. None of them seemed especially shocked or upset (perhaps this was intentional), and their reactions rang false. It was as if she was an acquaintance - not someone they purported to know for their entire lives. I did enjoy one of the character's journeys to fame and fortune - and actually that bit had me convinced the story was worth finishing. But then... , there is a hideous passage where the main character describes herself as "fat" about fifteen times, implying that she buries herself in cupcakes, chips and cookies, and that no man would ever want to be with her or even notice her - oh the horrors of her size!!!! Later, we find out she was 5'4'' and 140 pounds - the completely average, healthy weight for a woman her age. I mean, COME ON. This was written by a female author and this is the kind of garbage she's putting out in the world - without even a hint that the heroine's thinking is flawed?

That was enough to send me over the edge. I wasn't enjoying the book enough to finish it, so in the 'do not finish' pile it went.

Special thanks to Netgalley and Severn House for my ARC of Catherine O’Connell’s novel The Last Night Out. This book started out with a group of long time friends coming together for a bachelorette party. For some it was a wild night but for one woman it was her last night. Angie is discovered the next day murdered by one of the girls out on her morning jog .As the police try and piece together what happened that night it soon becomes apparent that no one is above suspicion. The book is told from many point of views, which was confusing at times, trying to remember who was who. However, Ms. O'Connell gets us back on track with an ending that I didn’t even see coming. The confusion of all the characters actually worked in the end.

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Bachelorette parties can be wild, but Maggie knows she had way too much to drink when she woke up with a total stranger. Things go from bad to worse when she discovers her friend, Angie, from the party the night before has been murdered. Homicide detective Ron O’Reilly questions all the women who were at the party and becomes convinced that at least some, if not all of them are lying about the events of the night before. It turns out that someone is determined to make the friends suffer for a past injustice, and Angie’s murder is only the first. A tightly woven British police procedural