I loved the vibe and humor of this book! Lynda made me laugh with her experiences throughout the book and I love an unreliable narrator. It did feel like things got a little repetitive towards the end of the book but that’s my only critique. I would give this book a 4.5 star! It was full of drama, betrayal, and of course, the world of music.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Sometimes I struggle with dual timelines but I found this one easy to follow - it kind of fell into the chaos that was the FMC Lynda’s life.

I couldn’t help but love Lynda - despite her being a complete narcissist, I admired the fire in her belly and her unwavering confidence.

Borders’ writing is so descriptive, it made me feel like I was right there in the 70s, beer sloshing all over me and cigarette smoke all around me.

I laughed out loud at so many points of this book, it was brilliant!

Lisa Borders’ Last Night at the Disco is an absolute delight from start to finish: a glittering, fast-paced, and irresistibly funny ride through the dazzling chaos of 1970s New York with the unforgettable Lynda Boyle at its center. Lynda’s voice leaps off the page, bold, brash, and utterly captivating, as Borders whisks us from the sweat-soaked dance floors of Studio 54 to the East Village poetry scene, blending wit, heart, and just the right touch of drama. The story’s energy is electric, the characters feel larger than life yet deeply human, and every page shimmers with the joy of storytelling. I finished this book grinning, already wanting to read it again!









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Reading the story from Lynda reminds me of Humbert Humbert, one of the prime examples of unreliable narratives in literary history. Just like Nabokov, Lisa Borders verrates a character that from the beginning makes it clean, that you can‘t really trust anything she says. Lynda can see no fault in herself, she is always the victim and she says that every man craves her. But as soon as she loses interest in them, or worse they in her, she loses her mind. She is in constant need to manipulate people and those who see through her tactics are the villains in her view. Everything is exaggerated, but somewhere there is a little bit of truth in the statements but who is to say that it really happened this way? The fact that no animal can tolerate or like her can be interpreted as her being a predator.
Lynda isn’t just an unreliable narrator, she is also entirely insufferable. She sees no fault in herself and cannot see her actions as wrong. There is no self reflection and realisation that she might not be as great as she believes herself to be, which makes it hard to read and follow her story without questioning her sanity. At times it was a drag to read through because there is not real character development in the story.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with a copy for my honest review.

I enjoyed this book, but feel as though it may not be for everyone. Very interesting characters and plot. Great pop culture references.

A short review is better than no review, right? Last Night At The Disco was a wild ride. I’m a sucker for ‘70s nostalgia, and for ‘70s music. Linda Boyle is the unreliable, unlikable narrator I didn’t know I could enjoy so much! Thank you #NetGalley for ARC.

📚 E-ARC BOOK REVIEW 📚

Last Night At The Disco
By Lisa Borders
Publication Date: October 7, 2025
Publisher: Regal House Publishing

📚MY RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you so much to Regal House Publishing and NetGalley for this gifted e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!

📚MY REVIEW:

Initially, I grabbed this book simply because the eye-catching cover design and title piqued my interest. The synopsis pulled me in too: I've had a years-long obsession with all things Studio 54 -- so much so that my friends joke I must have been a frequent visitor there in a past life (even though I was already a young child in its heyday).

This book was everything I hoped for and didn't even know I wanted. Part music fiction, part satire, part pop culture history, part rock-n-roll. This is the story of Lynda Boyle, narrating her life in the form of a letter to Jann Wenner, the editor of Rolling Stone, written to "correct the record" after an article about a rocker's recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was published in the famed magazine.

In 1977, Lynda is a narcissistic and self-absorbed 26-year-old, living with her parents in New Jersey after a failed attempt to be a famed poet in NYC's East Village. Lynda longs to leave New Jersey behind forever and become part of the world of glamour and luxury she experiences when she visits Studio 54, her fleeting connection to the opulent world she longs for. In New Jersey, she connects with two people who are blooming rock icons in their own right, and she's convinced she can help them make it big. Forty-ish years later, Lynda becomes incensed when she feels like she's been written out of the narrative -- and she wants to be sure her part of the story is told.

The details of the stories shared about the wildly frenetic nightlife in Manhattan in the late 1970s had me practically salivating as I read, as Borders's writing made me feel like I was right there with Lynda. Between her drug-fueled dancing and over-the-top encounters with the who's who of 1970s pop culture at Studio 54, to seeing bands like The Ramones at CBGB and Devo playing in tiny little bars, I felt like I could see the glitter falling from the ceiling, smell the cigarette smoke in the air, and feel the stickiness of the beer-covered bar floors.

As narcissistic and self-absorbed as Lynda was, I loved her and the confident badass she was. There was something so endearing and captivating about her stories that made this book unputdownable for me. There's quite a bit of quick jumping back and forth in timelines, between the 1970s and 2019, which could be confusing to some readers. The more I read, though, the more I grew to really love the quick switches between the past and the present. And I loved every minute of her whirlwind life.

If you're a fan of books like Daisy Jones and the Six or movies like Almost Famous, or if you love immersive reads with details that will make you feel like you're a part of a wild time and place in pop culture history, you're going to love this book. Maybe it's my love of disco, my connection with 1970s pop culture, my obsession with all things Manhattan, or a combination of all three -- but I gotta be honest, I freaking LOVED this book. Available on NetGalley now and coming in October 2025!

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I liked this book so much until about 60% or so and then it just started to feel really repetitive. I love an unreliable narrator with a strong, unique voice and this was a great one. A 26 year old narcissist in the late 1970s, Lynda was so fun to me. I laughed a lot at her perspective of the interactions around her.

But eventually the book just ended up feeling really long. Her antics felt similar, repeated over and over, and I got tired of reading the same situations with different men.

The concept was great and I thought the author did a fabulous job creating Lynda’s voice, I just wished for a little more variety in the plot.

This book is as if Daisy Jones from ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ is an awful person.

Lynda Boyle is an absolute crazy person, the whole book is an essential lie on how she was involved in creating the rock legend Aura Lockhart.

Lynda is an incredibly awful person which is entirely the point of the book and I enjoyed it immensely for that.

However I think that’s pretty much all I liked about it, something about this book is all build up no pay off, but it’s definitely enjoyable to read

Thanks to Netgallery for this ARC.

This was a good read gave it a 4.75 mostly as Lynda is just an unlikeable person a narcissistic sociopath who feels she is better than everyone else but also paints herself as a victim being cruelly tossed aside by Jonny and Aura when you see that she tried to use themas a means to getting back into the fame she felt she deserves. She also can't accept Jonny not wanting her, you see many examples of her sociopath and narcissistic behaviour through the story also the fact she is writing this as a email to someone in wanting to give her version shows her need to be the main character in the story and not a footnote in someone else's tale. This was a good story but didn't really engrossed me.

Regal House Publishing provided an early galley for review.

As a child of the 70's, throw the word "disco" around and you have my attention. I love the music, the glamour, the vibe. If I had been born eight years sooner, I would have spent many nights on those dance floors. And while a bit of the story here does take place in the most famous disco in the world, there is so much more going on in this narrative.

Lynda is not your typical middle-school teacher, and her unpredicatable nature makes her an interesting character to observe. However, about a quarter of the way through, I came to suspect how unreliable she was as a narrator. The more the story went on, the more I saw her delusions. Is it wrong to say I was completely onboard to see how this tragedy played out? I hope not.

This is not a typical tale, so it might hit readers in different ways. Still, I am sure it will hit the mark with the right audience.

A perfect read for lovers of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones. This is a romping, high-energy, dazzling foray into the glitzy, drug-fuelled world of 1970s New York disco. The protagonist is almost absurdly unlikeable, but you can't help but root for her. And the story's twisted mysteries unravel wonderfully. A fantastic book.

Last Night at the Disco by Lisa Borders is a gloriously unhinged dive into the glittering chaos of 1980s New York, and the messy interior world of one woman trying to rewrite her legacy.

Lynda, an aspiring poet stuck teaching in New Jersey and living with her parents, spends her nights chasing inspiration and identity on the disco floors of Manhattan. Decades later, she decides it’s time to reclaim her place in the spotlight, especially after two musicians she discovered become household names.

I genuinely enjoyed this book. Lynda is undeniably narcissistic, occasionally awful, and completely magnetic. I couldn’t stop reading, caught somewhere between horror and admiration, wondering what her next delusion or scheme would be. The dissonance between her self-image and her reality is both unsettling and weirdly delightful, especially as the mystery of her husband’s identity unraveled.

Themes of reinvention, unreliable memory, and female ambition pulse through the story like a dance track. Lynda’s voice is delusional yet fascinating, she’s not trying to be lovable, and that’s what makes her so compelling. The author paints the nightlife and artistic fringes of the era with just the right amount of grit and glitter, and the setting practically hums with atmosphere.

It’s unpredictable, over-the-top, and funny in a way that feels both wild and intentional. I’d absolutely recommend it to anyone who loves a protagonist you can’t quite trust but can’t look away from either.

I didn’t know what to expect when I requested this book and it was a nice surprised. I like the vibes of studio 54 and everything surrounding it. It was like a fictional biography which I had to tell myself a few times. It’s fiction… lol thanks for the opportunity! I really read something outside fantasy and romance! It was a nice change!

It had a bit of Evelyne’s husbands vibes to it. I liked it!

I was so excited for this; it did not disappoint! I loved the characters, the plot, and how everything unfolded. 5/5 stars.

Last Night At The Disco took me on a ride to nightlife in the 70s. The plot setting was superb and the detail to the scene really sealed the deal for me. I found a Lynda delusional and narcissistic. I had a hard time connecting with her, but appreciated her spontaneity and desire to take control of her narrative. All in all, this was a good read! It was entertaining.

DNF at 37%

The writing really isn't for me and and the side characters are sometimes sooo cringey that I can't keep going... I really thought I would like this as it seemed sooo interesting.

Unhinged women is my favorite genre to read. The main character was fascinatingly horrible in every sense of the word. But I kept turning the page because I had to see what she'd do next.

Lynda Boyle is a strangely fascinating character because she’s seriously delusional. I definitely don’t condone her actions but I think the world would be a better place if every woman had even a smidgen of her self-confidence. She literally can do no wrong in her own eyes.

There have been so many stories about women of that era, particularly on the periphery of the music industry, being objectified by lecherous men and yet Lynda turns the tables and weaponises her sexuality to get what she wants.

This story could’ve been told from Aura and/or Johnny’s perspective but it would’ve just been a pale imitation of so many other stories about this era.

It was difficult to review Last Night at the Disco because it’s cleverly written and Lynda is unlike any other character I’ve read about before but her actions were so abhorrent. It’s a dilemma because I can appreciate the writing but did I enjoy it? It was just OK.

If you want to read a book written by a narcissist, this one's for you. The narrator so unlikeable and delusional it was comical. It was a fun take on a different point of view.