This fun premise and pretty good pacing is undermined by poorly edited writing and fairly clunky dialogue- with a second pass this book could be a fun read with some enjoyable, if predictable, twists. I don’t think the reader is meant to like any of the characters too much, but I disliked them so much that I was muttering “yes!” when the murder finally happened, which I felt a bit bad about. The New Orleans setting is fun, although I wish the author had spent more time weaving it into the story beyond referencing bourbon street, because it feels like an untapped well. Overall this book has a lot more promise than it manages to deliver on.

Thank you to NetGalley and One More Chapter for the chance to read this book. Frome the very beginning it holds your interest as a body is found hanging at a party in a landmark New Orleans mansion. There are six people at the party and all of them have resentment with one or another of them. There is Rosalee - the bride to be, her BFF Mara from her college days, her cousin Tinsley who at one time was more like a sister, Bri he future sister-in-law, Elizabeth her future mother-in-law and Georgia, her future husbands long time best friend. As secrets each has is revealed the party becomes chaotic and a dead body is discovered. But whose body is it??
Through interviews with each person the detective in charge pieces the story together and solves the case. There are some big surprises but the best part was the descriptive atmosphere of New Orleans. The food, music, bars, beads and Bourbon Street put you right there with the cast of characters. I enjoyed the book and spent some time trying to figure who the body was and who killed her. Very good story and I recommend it.

First, the premise of this book is like catnip to me. A bachelorette party! In NOLA (where I had my own)! A mystery! And the first half was, in my opinion, a 5-star book. The tension between characters, the layered backstories, the gothic atmosphere -- I loved it all.

The story fell a bit off to me once we got to the investigation. Tonally, it felt like a new book. It was still good, but personally, I'm not a huge fan of police procedurals, so I'm not sure I would have picked it up if I'd known how it was set up. I did appreciate how the reader doesn't know who died until the very end! I found the reveal - not whodunnit, but how we found out whodunnit - to be a bit flat though, unfortunately.

Rosalee is engaged to Asher and her best friend, Mara, wants to give her a bachelorette party to be held at an old mansion in New Orleans. Also invited is her Elizabeth, her mother-in-law (to be) who doesn’t approve of Rosalee. Also, Asher’s sister, Bri, who is unmarried and not very feminine. Add to that, Tinsley, who works at a bookstore and loves books is coming. When Rosalee’s parents were killed when she was a young teen, she went to live with her aunt and cousin Tinsley. Last, but not least, we have the lovely Georgia who runs a yoga gym and who Elizabeth wants Asher to marry. A number of characters but all of them have secrets and some have grudges against others in the group.

As they arrive, they are feted with great food catered for them and endless alcohol. As tensions build and tempers flare secrets and grudges are released ending in the death of one of the attendees. Who died and why?

This is one of those good whodunits that makes you feel like it’s a slam-dunk as to the guilty party. Oh, but I was wrong. It’s a good story and one that keeps the reader guessing. Do enjoy!

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read How: 📱
Setting: New Orleans, Louisiana
POV: 8

The Bachelorette is such a fun popcorn thriller that will keep you up all night because every chapter ends on a cliff. If it wasn't for my responsibilities I would have finished this book in one sitting. 🙄
This story is told by the bride-to-be, best friend, cousin, future mother-in-law, future sister-in-law, and the groom's best friend. I know it may seem like a lot of characters but the way the author wrote this book it was seamless. Trust me when I say, that everyone had something to hide, and it drama on of drama.
This book is perfect if you like drama, New Orleans, and a bit of murder. 😂

Thank you so much Netgalley and Harper 360 for a copy of The Bachelorette Party in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance review copy in return for an honest review.
This book was a little too fast paced for me. I wish it had more time to explain things and paint the picture. But I did not see the eventual twist at the end.

Our bride is one of those endlessly sweet girls who is so kind that she even invites her enemies to her bridal party. They are celebrating in a historic New Orleans home with a dark story and it is gorgeous.
No one trusts anyone here at all. So we have Mara, the bride's best friend, Tinsley, Bride's cousin, Georgia, the grooms hot girl bestie, Bri, the grooms sister, and Elizabeth, The groom's super bitchy mom. Plus our bride, Rosalee. Right at the beginning of the trip these groom's people are causing havoc for Rosalee, and apparently mean pranks are totally their thing.
They even put mean nots in the basket of well wishes for her to read at dinner.
I LOVE the history of the home and the drama.

So someone gets murdered because of course someone does.
Once it gets to the police stuff I lost interest, more or less, because I don't do cop books but it was okay. It was twisty enough.
The ending is good.

The Bachelorette Party is the first thriller in forever that has managed to surprise me. However, it was not the mystery or the ending that surprised me, it was the characters. I usually find myself absolutely detesting nearly every character in a thriller, but this was not the case with The Bachelorette Party. While I wouldn't say that they were one hundred percent fully fleshed out, they managed to capture my imagination and I could find myself rooting for most of them. The story was made so much better by having glimpses into each character, without so many perspectives making the story feel overwhelming. It truly is a testament to Carissa Anne Lynch’s story telling.

The characters were enhanced by the beautiful setting of New Orleans. The rich atmosphere of the city and the wicked house elevated The Bachelorette Party above many other same-y thrillers. Spending most of the book not knowing who was killed also added to the atmospheric effect. My one complaint here is, though the house was beautifully described and drips with atmosphere, I would have loved for it to be even more connected to the actual story.

The tension that led up to the conclusion of the story was beautifully done. The story was added to by leaving each chapter on a bit of a cliffhanger. This made it very easy to devour the entire book in a day, because there is always information being provided. The actual conclusion was the only part that felt like the novel was missing some finesse. While I appreciated the conclusion, the ending felt too fast for something that had been building for so long.

Overall, I would recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a quick, atmospheric read as the days are moving closer to a new year.

⅘ stars

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper 360 for the opportunity to read this eARC in exchange for my honest opinions.

I know I’m in the minority here, but I had to DNF this book. I just could not get into it and the characters really lacked any redeeming qualities. I usually like a good mystery/thriller but this one was just not for me.

***thank you Netgalley and Harper Collins for an ARC copy in return for an honest review***

This book is definitely an interesting thriller that was an entertaining read. I love that it was set in New Orleans and the culture was tied into the experience. This was absolutely a who-dunnit book that also was a who-was it done to? The secrets that continued to pour out of each guest at the bachelorette party was enjoyable to try to piece together who had motive and who could've been the one to have perished. I did not feel there was too much time spent on dull topics, instead it was a rather quick read that got right to the point.

The story starts with a murder in a New Orleans mansion during a bachelorette party weekend. The group of women are mostly unlikeable characters, with secrets in their past and not much depth. We don't find out who has died until more towards the end of the book through alternating POVs. This theme has been done quite a bit and this didn't have anything particularly interesting to add to. It was quick read and on the shorter side.

Very entertaining and a quick read but nothing special. Told from different perspectives as a weekend bachelorette party turns deadly. Everybody's secrets are laid bare by the end of the book but some seemed forced just to try to throw you off. Fun read but not memorable.

This was a fun and super fast myster.thriller. It cycles through the perspectives of all of the characters which I love because it lets the reader collect all of the pieces and put them together like a puzzle. From the start it was clear this bachelorette party was going to be a bit of a nightmare.. The bride to be only really likes two of the invitees and two of the guests appear to actively dislike the bride to be. Rosalee, the bride to be, is a very sweet, if not more than a little naive, woman who has invited her best friend from college Mara, her cousin who is more like a sister Tinsley, her soon to be sister in law Bri who drinks too much, her soon to be mother in law Elizabeth who doesn’t think Rosalee is good enough, and Georgia who is her fiancée’s best friend (and the woman her mother in law wishes her son had chosen). IT’s a recipe for disaster and it doesn’t disappoint. Full of drama and eventually a murder this is one party no one will ever forget.

I liked the multiple points of view and the characters were intriguing. The pacing is fast and there's plenty of tension. The mystery keeps you guessing. I loved the ending.

Six women go to New Orleans for a bachelorette party and one ends up dead. Six generally unlikeable women, most of whom the bride doesn't even seem to like, and all of whom have their own issues.
I understand all of the characters in this book all needed to have issues, in order for the reader to question who was going to get murdered and why. At the end of the day, the story was good, but I felt like it took to long to get to the actual murder.
This book was a solid read and wasn't very heavy or long, so it was good for someone looking for a palate cleanser.

Six women went on this trip but for one it's the final destination! I think this book was fast-paced so I would have wanted more details, very petty characters for the age-range of women but if your looking to read in one sitting this is a book for you

Rosalyn is set to marry Astor and despite the fact his mom Elizabeth thinks he should marry lifelong childhood friend Georgia her and Aster sister Bree are attending Roslyn‘s bachelorette party in New Orleans. Along with Rosalyn‘s best friend from college Mira and her cousin Finley. Finley‘s mom took Mira in after she lost both her parents on the same day at 14 an are as close as sisters or at least they were. Myra and Finley or the one to planned this shindig but it seems Finley was the one who got stuck with the bill they’re going to be staying in a mansion in New Orleans with a famed murderous history. Unfortunately after the bachelorette party The Mansions murderous reputation will only grow because one of the partygoers is found dead. Trust me when I say everyone had a reason for killing the deceased but she isn’t the only one being threatened because Georgia and the bride to be Roslyn both get threatening notes, does this have anything to do with the eventual death or do they have more than one villain in the story? I thought this was a great mystery and a dramatic narrative and although I wouldn’t call this a locked room mystery like in the description that doesn’t make it any less of a awesome mystery because I found it to be a really good story although I do think the multiple POV‘s sometimes I had to concentrate to remember whose turn it was because everyone except Elizabeth and Bree has a POV and that is a lot but I still think it is an awesome story and so worth recommending if you love great thrillers and good mysteries you definitely love the bachelorette party oh I certainly did. Also due to the fact I live in New Orleans there were a lot of things that were exaggerated or not true at all but it’s not relevant so I took no points away for that I want to thank One more chapter Harper 360 and net galley for my free art copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

I don't want to judge this book too harshly when, in all likelihood, it's a perfectly fine book that just wasn't for me.

I'm a sucker for a locked-door murder mystery sort of thriller, so the premise and setting were irresistible. Unfortunately, the style and characters just didn't stick the landing for me.

The mystery itself is laid out in an intriguing way, with the details of the crime well thought out and engaging.

The book definitely delivers on twists and dark family secrets, but the characters didn't really resonate with me. I can really love a vicious, unlikeable character in this kind of thriller, but the mother in law struck me as completely over-the-top in terms of her pettiness and casual cruelty. In turn, I had a hard time with a lot of her interactions with the bride, who takes going along to get along to an extreme.

The POV shifts between characters from chapter to chapter, but the overall tone and style of the characters' internal monologue stayed more or less the same. I'd have liked to see more subtlety, both in their characterization and in the use of language to distinguish each character from the others.

That said, I would definitely be willing to read other work by this author.

4.5 ⭐️ Rosalee is getting married and her bridal party consists of her best friend (Mara); her cousin (Tinsley), her mother-in-law (Elizabeth), her sister-in-law (Bri), and her fiancé’s best friend (Georgia). There’s tension, there’s secrets, and there’s murder. Who will not make it to the wedding? And who did it?

This was such a fun read!! It was multiple POV and I appreciated the variety of personalities and secrets presented. I didn’t know what to expect from the reveal, and I liked how it ended. This was a super quick read, I could’ve done it in one sitting if I hadn’t been busy. Would def read this author again!

A bachelorette party in an old New Orleans mansion ends in murder. Who is the victim and who is the murderer? Was it the bride-to-be Rosalee, her timid cousin Tinsley or her overbearing best friend Mara? Or was it her disapproving future sister-in-law Bri and judgemental mother-in-law Elizabeth? Or maybe it was the groom's best friend Georgia?

Carissa Ann Lynch effortlessly builds suspense as each chapter is told from each person's point of view as the weekend wears on. At first you will judge each character, but slowly Lynch strips back why they may behave the way they do. The second half of the book is then switched to third person narrative of Detective Nina Smalls interviewing each attendee.

There were enough clues and a few red herrings to keep me guessing along the way. I'd read one chapter and think 'yup you are the victim and X murdered you'. The final twist was also a lovely touch. Just when you think you know everything you don't! The Bachelorette Party is a solid and pacy mystery that had me hooked right until the end - exactly the sort of murder mystery to devour.

Thanks to Harper 360, One More Chapter and NetGalley for the ARC.