Thee Dinner Party starts off with reader feeling they are in a book version of the game Clue. The characters are interesting and will have readers excited to find out the truth. Not sure what happened but somewhere in the story it starts to fall apart with characters added fighting that didn't enhance the story or drive it forward.

The ending was confusing ended the once exciting story to a mess of questions.

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Do you have friends that you would do anything for? Would you lie or decieve to help them? The Dinner Party puts this into one husbands mind. How well do you know you wife and friends? I loved the idea and plot of this novel. You aren't sure what the hell is going on until near the end of the book. I sooo love it. I usually can guess and then skip to the back. Not this one. Our narrator is just as confused as the reader. It is a slowly building read, but you won't lose interest. Please take the time to read it. It is not a long read and you will enjoy to ending. Sometimes those we trust the most can hide the best secrets.
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Thank you Net Galley and Harper Impulse for an early release of this book. It kept me totally absorbed, the ending was a bit confusing, I had to reread but all in all suspenseful.

The premise of this book sounds interesting, the beginning starts with a bang, but then nothing. No character development, no reason why I should care about these characters.

I WANTED to love this, I really did. I love thrillers and I especially love thrillers set with a tight knit group of friends or family. However, the lack of depth in the friendships among the characters left me not caring about that aspect and just hoping the action would deliver, and sadly it didn't. The main character, Ted is unlikeable and judgmental and not in the way that makes me root for other characters.

I think with more character development and editing this book could have been a 5 stars, but as it stands it was a 3 stars for me.

I really wanted to love The Dinner Party, I thought the synopsis sounded interesting and was excited to see how the plot would play out....but it seems to be lacking something. All the ingredients to a good book are here but the recipe has gone wrong. I couldn’t get past the 45% mark. Just not for me.

I loved the idea of this book. Four couples are enjoying a dinner party...until the game. Most of the guests were apprehensive to play. What will the consequences be? The first half was interesting with trying to guess the killer. The second half becomes more scattered and confusing as it goes on. A lot of unnecessary drama to get to the ending. Overall, it was a good book but I was left disappointed because I had high hopes for this book.

Thank you to the author, publisher and netgalley for the opportunity to read an arc of this book.

We've all had dinner parties where we've drunk too much and played silly games... hopefully we've not had dinner parties like this...
I much preferred the first half of the book,before they all started dropping like flies and everyone was lying to each other and the police in what seemed a completely unbelievable manner.
Fast read,and entertaining enough.

How much do you trust your friends? A group of 8 chums gets together for a dinner party, but instead of a pleasant evening of drinks and dinner they engage in a game that exposes their worst secrets, fears and lies. The next day two are dead and the remaining six are left to wonder who to trust. An engaging riff on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None

This was a tale of two stories. For the first 90% of this book, the novel seemed to be much ado about the events that occurred after a not-so-very-interesting game played at a dinner party. The last 10% was a bloodbath precipitated by melodramatic denouement that seemed a bit too far-fetched for the circumstances. Overall, the narrative appeared to have spun its wheels for most of the book and at the very end, took off like a shot. Initially, I had liked where the story was heading but was disappointed once it had reached its destination.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and R. J. Parker for an ARC of 'The Dinner Party' in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.

How well do you know your friends ? What secrets might you all be hiding ? I really enjoyed this book and found it easy to identify with the characters. There were enough twists and turns to have me intrigued as to what had happened on the night and who was hiding what.
I found the end a little unbelievable and would have liked a little less drama there. All in all a good read and I would recommend it.

Protagonist Ted, well-meaning and principled but too easily swayed by others, at one point asks himself, "How was he meant to be thinking about his friend?" For me, that approach describes the crux of this psychological mystery. Eight individuals--four couples. They consider themselves "a dinner group," not really socializing beyond that--or so Ted thinks. I think there's too much thinking going on among this group. Self-analysis is well and good, until it becomes "what does my spouse/friend/therapist think? Maybe I should change my mind?"