This book was such a hard one to get through, not because it was a complicated read, but because it was so cumbersome. Not so much a thriller, but a bit of a yawn fest.

Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lots of potential but not much payoff for me. I wasn't invested in the characters and didn't find the 'thriller' elements were that well expanded. The concept itself is really interesting and is partly why I ended up finishing the book. Would still look to pick up another book by this author to give it another go. 3 stars.

A thrilling read which kept me turning the pages, characters you care for and just brilliantly written. Great novel!!

Thank you Simon and Schuester and Netgalley for an ARC of this book.
This thriller was based on a suicide ten years earlier and seeking to find out what really happened. It was enjoyable enough but didn’t really grip with the intensity I seek in a thriller.

An okay psychological thriller that sees Lindsay start to question her best friend's suicide, ten years after the event. She has lost touch with her other friends from the time they all spent partying, drinking and generally running amok. Edie's death was deemed a suicide as she was seemingly depressed after a string of bad things had passed through her life. Lindsay slowly starts to get back in touch with her old friends, trying to remember what actually happened on that fateful night, a night that Lindsay was blacked out drunk. Was it really a suicide? Or was Edie murdered? And did Lindsay herself know more about what happened that night? When new evidence starts to emerge it leaves Lindsay with a cold feeling, as all the evidence points at her.

I enjoyed this book well enough, without ever being totally enthralled. It did tend to get a bit bogged down at times, yet the ending was good. I never would have picked what actually happened in a million years. A good novel for a rainy weekend.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz took a bit to get into but once I did it was hard to put down. While at times the characters were very annoying it was a story that will keep you guessing.

10 years ago Lindsays best friend killed her self alone in her apartment after a long drunken night. Their group of friends were all completely devastated and shocked as it seemed to come out of nowhere. The grief sent them all their separate ways for 10 years. But after a catch up with one of the group Sarah, she starts to rethink the night and wonder if it really was suicide. Back then there was a lot of drinking and drugs and often the memories of that night was hazy or completely forgotten. Now working as a fact checker for a magazine she uses her skills to delve back into her own past. But those lost memories appear to have Lindsay in a completely different situation than she remembers - does she really want to know the truth?

Thanks to Simon and Schuster Australia for the advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and in no way biased.

Nearing the 10 year anniversary of her friend Edie’s apparent suicide, Lindsay catches up with Sarah, one of her friends from that time in her life. Lindsay realises that there are missing pieces from her memory on the night that Edie died and she’s not totally convinced it was a suicide after things Sarah says. Blackouts in Lindsay’s memory weren’t unusual for that time in her life, but what happened to Eddie? Was she somehow responsible for her death?

This was a well written, thought provoking book - how often in our younger years do we get too drunk to remember what we’ve done? It had elements of single white female in it and some parts I thought were a bit predictable. Overall an enjoyable and well written thriller. It was a bit reminiscent of The Girl on the Train with memory chunks of the protagonist missing, so there were times where I felt “I’ve read this before”.

Thank you to #netgalley and #simon&schusteraustralia for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

An exciting and gripping book from a debut author and I definitely enjoyed reading it. For three quarters of the book, I felt compelled to keep reading and enjoyed the narrative that Bartz created. The ending whilst not obvious, didn't surprise me. Unfortunately I felt that the ending was the downfall of this novel. To solve the mystery that's been kept hidden for ten years, but then delay the ending to throw in a "twist" (which it wasn't) read like a ploy to make the narrative longer. You basically get the ending twice in a space of 50 pages which I don't deem necessary and doesn't add anything to the story overall. I did really enjoy this book, I just wish the ending was perhaps edited or written slightly stronger.