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I‘ve read a lot of thrillers this year and this one was just ok for me. I liked the twist but I didn‘t feel compelled to listen to it nonstop.

I‘ve been having trouble finding good thrillers lately, and while I loved Kristen Sieh‘s narration, I‘m a bit done with the “woman investigates what she didn‘t remember while she was drunk” trope. Light pick.

Lindsay‘s bestie Edie committed suicide when they were young. Ten years later, Lindsay has cleaned up her life but when a friend from that era gets in touch, Lindsay starts to wonder whether it was a suicide. Cue her getting Nancy Drew!

Main character tries to back track to a night 10 years ago (2009) when tragedy struck a friend that she had a tumultuous relationship with, following a breadcrumb trail of blacked out memories, obsolete technology and limited perspectives of self centered NYC hipsters.

Good, didn‘t reinvent the genre here, But I love an unreliable narrator and enjoyed the twists in this novel.

Lindsay meets up with an old friend and their conversation makes her start thinking of a mutual friend‘s death 10 years ago. What really happened? She becomes obsessed with trying to find out. Overall this was enjoyable, but carried on a little long. I didn‘t guess the ending, which I like. I do think her two newer ones are better, which means great things for the future!

I recently read Andrea Bartz's 2nd book The Herd, which I loved. However, this one I found to be much more predictable. I am tired of the tropes of the main female protagonist being an alcoholic and people in their 20s always going to a ton of parties and getting wasted. There was a lack of character development. I did not care for any of the characters. I felt that quite a few parts dragged and could have been shorter.

Every character is pretty unlikeable, but I still flew through this unreliable narrator thriller.

All of my audiobook holds are weeks out and I needed a new one to listen to on my walk to work. This has been in my TBR for awhile. Hope it‘s a good one!

A girl remembers back to ten years before when a friend died under questionable circumstances. Things didn‘t happen as she remembers. Who can she trust? Possibly not herself.

BOOK TAGS⇣
⤏ MYSTERIOUS QUESTIONABLE SUICIDE
⤏ THE PARTY LIFE IN 2009
⤏ FOGGY, ALCOHOL INDUCED MEMORIES (BLACKOUT DRUNK)
⤏ A VERY UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
⤏ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
My review in one sentence⤏ I found the story within this mystery rather fascinating.

See My Review Here⤏ https://leahsbookishobsession2.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-lost-night.html

I tried to read this , but honestly, I‘m up to page 42 and I‘m not into it. This will be the first time that I bail on a book. The main character annoys me for some reason. This never happens to me. I may read it again sometime in the future. . #thelostnight #andreabartz

Now let‘s see how this story will unfold... #thelostnight #andreabartz

My new reading nook with Frida standing guard (she was also our tree angel this year 🎄)

A thriller about a woman in New York revisiting the night a decade ago when a friend died, after questioning whether it was really a suicide after all. I liked the way the book examined the flimsiness of memory and captured the certain magic and manic feeling of being 22 or 23, just out of college and figuring out adult life for the first time.

Listening on Overdrive. Anyone else ever get to a point in a book and just wish someone would tell you the ending? I‘m so over the main character in this book, and her “friends” from her early twenties. Sometimes I like a book with unlikeable characters and sometimes it drives me bonkers. At this point I‘ve invested too much, I have to know how the lost night really played out! (Haha, and since it‘s on audio I can‘t just skip to the last page.)

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I love the anticipation of starting a new book!

Almost finished!

#bookmail - this will sadly be my last big haul for awhile (other than BOTM). Just spent more than I wanted to getting work done on my car.

A slow burn, but a good read through and through.

Glad to be home with my new book, my new #funko Britney Spears and my penguins hockey 🏒 🐧 ! #readingandwatchinghockey

This one is supposed to be good! #amreading #currentread

I devoured this mystery #TheLostNight!

While the premise may not seem entirely new (MC can't remember the night BF committed suicide, suspects something more sinister) this covers new ground as it delves into the recesses of the mind, memory and a hazy chemically-infused hipster past.

http://kamoorephoto.booklikes.com/post/1848753/a-decade-after-a-friend-s-suicide...

A decade after her best friend‘s death, Lindsay starts reconnecting with old friends and starting to piece together that there‘s more going on than she recalled... An intriguing read that‘s hard to put down- I stayed up far too late finishing this one - and it really made 2009 feel like history!! #Secrets unfold and though final twist may not surprise all but I enjoyed the satisfaction of being right! 😌 #LiteraryLove