The Block Party was great. I read it through on Sunday. It kept me guessing. So many secrets and so many twists. I love when something from one character's life becomes involved with another's. The ending has a surprise. This will be a summer must read.
Thank you, NetGalley. I needed a book like this after the holidays.

Apparently, I can’t get enough of these neighborhood drama stories. This one is my favorite so far. It was so much better than I expected and I couldn’t wait to see how all of the conflicts would be resolved. The residents are wealthy (aren’t they always?) and completely wrapped up in each other’s lives. There are affairs, secrets from the past, more affairs, and a murder at the yearly block party. There’s no shortage of guesses on who was murdered and who did the deed.

The story starts out with the crime and then unfolds beginning at the block party from the year before. The reader is then methodically introduced to the residents as they enter into the story, and although there are several families to keep track of, I had no problem remembering who was who. It did get a little tricky once the affairs are revealed, I had to keep reminding myself that no, that’s not her husband, that one is her lover!

I was really engaged in this story and couldn’t wait to see how it was going to play out. I wasn’t disappointed and you won’t be either!

Thank you for this advanced copy. I received an offer to read this book so I took it. I feel like this plot is way overdone. Big block party, secrets and lies come out, not what you expected! it did have some great endings for the characters but i felt the book was too long and overdone. Could have been a great book if told in about 100 less pages.

I read this in one sitting! Anything to do with a little neighborhood drama mixed with a murder is a toxic mix of staying up way to late to finish! Unraveling the year prior, pay attention, it took me by surprise! This is for sure to a hit summer read!

Not sure it would be possible to fit one more dysfunctional person on the street. None of the characters are very likeable and all of them are covering something up. It was a quick read where I wanted to find out what happened, but I was never really sure who I was rooting for. It wrapped up pretty well with a few reveals that surprised me that made it overall a worthwhile, despite some of the unbelievability throughout.

Ok, wow. There's a lot going on here. It sounds cliche to refer to this book as a web of secrets but it truly is. These neighbors on Alton Road are all up in each other's business and yet no one knows anything. A few of the secrets I figured out beforehand but this was still an enjoyable read.

Thank you to the publisher for allowing me to read this eARC!

Mystery, drama, murder, scandals...a fun time! This book really makes you realize you don't truly know anyone and to question everyone. It definitely kept me on my toes. It had the suspenseful atmosphere that I love as well!

For fans of White Lotus, this is “White Lotus—Neighborhood Style.” We learn early on that someone has been killed during the annual Memorial Day block party in a posh Massachusetts neighborhood. The tale then goes back a year to fill in the backstory and introduce us to the individual neighbors and their complex relationships. Until the end, we can only speculate on who has died, how, why, and at the hands of whom.

The author does an impressive job of grabbing and holding the reader’s attention with strong character development, storytelling from varying points of view, and convincing dialogue, as well as interesting revelations about neighborhood dynamics. Individuals struggle with the ramifications of telling—or not telling—each other what they know or suspect about questionable goings-on while families come apart, neighbors fight, and tensions rise. The ending is satisfying without being overly clichéd. My only complaint is the number of “beautiful” women and drop-dead handsome men populating the place.

Everyone thinks they know their neighbors but this book will let you know you never truly know what goes on behind closed doors. Each neighbor on the block has their own secrets they are trying to hide so it appears like they have it all together. Some are better than others at hiding their secrets. Some just know how to find out all the secrets and use it too their advantage.

It is time for the annual Memorial Day block party and this year two people will die. So many of them have said they wanted to kill someone who finally does it and why? The author lays out all the clues for you to follow but the ending was one I couldn't sleuth out. Kudos as I like to be surprised and shocked and this one did both.

This book is addictive and it is smart, twisty, well crafted mystery with some very diverse characters. I loved the two different point of views between Alex and Lettie. I loved the ending and how tragedy managed to make everyone closer.

Thank you to NetGalley, Jamie Day and St. Martin's Press for the ARC!

I have been looking forward to reading this book and was so happy to get an advanced copy. The Block Party is one you will not want to put down from start to finish!
The residents of Alton Road are SUPER close- some are related, they ALL have something to hide, and the gossip never ends. Alex lives with husband Nick, daughter Lettie, and is the queen of the street- she loves organizing get togethers, fixing her neighbors problems, and wine- she really loves wine. Her sister Emily lives on the same street with her two sons and always has drama with her husband Ken... who seems to have drama with everyone. Mysterious new neighbors add to the drama and as the year unfolds stalkers are uncovered, affairs are discovered and lies crumble. Tensions overflow at the annual Alton Road Block Party on Memorial Day, and this year not everyone will make it out alive.
The Block Party is a deeply satisfying thriller that keeps you guessing til the end, you have to read it for yourself!

The residents of Alton Road are holding their annual Memorial Day Block party but the usually family friendly get together is about to take a sinister turn that ends in a homicide. The core families each have something to hide and as the novel unfolds we learn that even the most idyllic neighborhoods are not always as serene as they appear to an outsider.

The mystery is narrated from dual points of view and interspersed with the online chatter from other community members who like nothing better than to speculate about the residents of Alton Road. Alex Fox seems to have it all together; successful businesswoman, loving mother and devoted wife but she is also an alcoholic. Lettie Fox, her 17 year old daughter is entering her Senior year of high school on the heels of a two week suspension at the end of Junior year for vandalism to the school. She will be the first to admit that she doesn't fit in with her peers and wants nothing more than to graduate and move across country to attend USC.

The story starts off in present day with Alex drunk, and after landing on her butt in the kiddie pool and totally humiliating her husband Nick, she goes into the house to sleep it off. She's awakened by the sounds of sirens and staggers outside to see what is happening.

The author then takes us back a year and we get to know each of the families and the secrets they are hiding which ultimately will end in death for one of them, and completely destroy the lives of several others. An eerie tale filled with obsession, blackmail, infidelity and drug abuse that will have you binge reading an afternoon away. This is not my normal genre but am glad that I took the opportunity to spend a day with the residents of Alton Road.

I received an advanced copy of The Block Party from NetGalley via St. Martin's Press. While not required to write a review I am happy to offer my honest opinion.

this was a really well done novel, it had what I was looking for in a thriller story. Jamie Day has a great writing style that worked with the story. I enjoyed the idea of a crazy neighborhood because it's something that everyone has. The characters worked well and I enjoyed getting to know them.

"My fault . . . my fault . . . my fault thumps in my head, like that guilty heartbeat from the Edgar Allan Poe story I read in ninth grade. Even so, I’m torn. Jay’s warning that Riley is no good should carry some weight, but here I am, leading Dylan right back into the clutches of the femme fatale. There’s every chance I’m going to make things worse, not better."

This is the first book by Jamie Day that I've read, and it will not be the last.

At first, the layout was a little confusing to read but once I got familiar with it, I couldn't put the book down. There were so many twists and turns that I never saw coming. There are so many characters and everything is so intertwined, but it's not at the same time. This is definitely one of the most exciting thrillers I've ever read.

This book was phenomenal, and there's honestly so much that it keeps you hanging on the edge of your seat, and unable to stop reading.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read the ARC, and for introducing me to a new author!

I love thrillers centered around neighborhoods. It's such a good setup and the payoff is often there. However, this one didn't hold my attention. Even with the mystery teased pretty early on, the switch in perspectives and the drawn-out beginning slowed down the plot. Hopefully this will be a better fit for someone else.

The Block Party by Jamie Day
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
I would recommend to most

Y'all I binged this book in one day and loved it! The Block Party is set to be released July 2023 and I can already tell it's going to be a summer hit!

"If there's anything more interesting to study than a planet, it's the people who live on it."

Synopsis:
The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other.

On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder.
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This drama filled mystery is for you if you love dual POV and a rapid fire plotline that collides past and present into one nail-biting ending.

Things I loved:
Dual POV
Past/present timeline
Complex plot
Fast paced
Strong character development
Drama, drama, drama!
I was surprised by the ending

I think the genre leans closer to mystery and a bit less suspenseful than most thrillers I read which honestly, my blood pressure could use the break

Wow,what a dysfunctional neighborhood! This book is better than the juicy gossip you hear from the neighborhood busy body. I had no idea that the story was going in the direction it did. These kind of books are few and far between. As we meet each of the neighbors each seems to be holding secrets and we are slowly given clues as to what these secrets could be. Alex is the neighborhood glue it seems. She organizes the block party every year and keeps up with all of her friends in the neighborhood. Samir and Mandy and their son Jay moved into the neighborhood and that started a chain of events no one could have imagined. Secrets get unraveled that involve betrayals and acts of revenge. Twisty thriller with an amazing ending.

The Block Party by Jamie Day was exactly the book I needed to read after an emotional tearjerker. It was fun. It was twisty. It was fabulous!!! The author has created characters that leapt off the page and had me laughing out loud. As a suburban mom who has been to plenty of block parties and can never resist getting out the popcorn to observe neighbor squabbles & gossip, this book was the perfect binge read for me. My first from Jamie Day and I'm already looking forward to the next!!!

Wow. This was my first Jamie Day read but most definitely will not be my last! I really enjoyed everything about this book. Characters kept me in a constant love/hate state of mind. Lots of deep dark secrets blends up the perfect storm of psychological thrillers.
Highly recommend. Fun and addictive
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

This one was a good suspense novel in the vein of Lapena and her books . It about neighborhood drama and murder and the secrets we keep .
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review the book

OMG! This is good! This is addictive! This is scandalous! Grab your popcorns and chill your favorite wines! Desperate Housewives meets Big Little Lies concept couldn’t be so entertaining!

Block Party is smart, twisty, well crafted mystery with bunch of amazing characters. The main story told by two POVs: Alex; fixer, mediator, heavy wine drinker, the good and responsible neighbor, open minded mother and Lettie; Alex’s rebellious, environmentalist, intelligent, observant, misfit daughter!

The events are told by their perspectives. The book opens with Memorial Day Block Party which was detailedly organized by Alex. During the party Alex had too much drink and got humiliated after slipping and finding herself sit on kid’s pool! Her husband sent her to home, ordering not to come back!

After closing her eyes, passing out at home, Alex suddenly gets alerted by sirens! Something happened at the block party! As we get informed from online gossips of neighbors, we understand somebody died at the party ! But who and why? We only got introduced with Alex and the irritating sales man Gus Fisher called Bug Man, Alex’s very angry husband Nick at the first chapter.

Then we moved backwards to read the incidents from one year ago and meet with the main characters.

Alex- Nick and their 17 years old Lettie are Foxes seem like the perfect family. Even though Alex keeps drinking too much, Lettie gets suspended from school. Let’s not forget Nick and Alex didn’t have sex for a long time!

Adairs also seem like having all. Two brilliant sons with great athletic accomplishments, very successful, handsome husband Ken, his devoted wife, real estate manager wife Emily who is also Alex’s sister. But Emily gets agitated as soon as she realizes her husband gets a little more interested in their new neighbor Mandy Kumar. She even plans to hire PI to find out what her husband keeps away from her and their son Dylan is tired to live in the shadow of his star athlete brother, dating with Riley who is also nemesis of his cousin Lettie.

Willow and her photographer husband Evan are members of Thompson family, in the middle of explosive divorce and their 17 years old Riley is keeping very dangerous secrets from them. Lettie knows Riley is the reason for her suspension and she teams up with her new neighbor Jay to get revenge by finding out what Riley is hiding out!

The new neighbors Kumars seem like perfect family but nothing as it seems. Samir, Mandy are both psychiatrists and their 20 years old college dropout Jay lives with them. Samir doesn’t let his wife socialize with the other women in the neighborhood, acting controlling, manipulative.

And the black widow Brooke Bailey ( my favorite character of the book) , sassy, sarcastic, eccentric and absolutely beautiful neighbor, living alone after her husband died at the yacht accident. So many people presumed she killed him and got away with it. Jury is still out there!

Normally I don’t like to read long books with so much characters. It normally exhausts me! But on the contrary, this book made me more energized! I was so intrigued! It felt like binge watching ten episodes of murder mystery series!
The characters are exceptional! The secrets, twists were well crafted. I didn’t want it to end! I had so much fun!

The conclusion was heart pounding and well wrapped up!

This book should be turned into the series! Ryan Murphy should read this book and instead of producing another Watcher season, he should read this book, working on the adaptation into the series!

I’m giving my five stars and looking forward to read more works of Jamie Day in near future!

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.