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.

Last Night at the Disco was a wild ride that puts the reader in the middle of the glittering, star studded, drug fueled world of Studio 54 in the late 70s with one of the most manipulative, narcissistic, simply evil MFC I have ever come across. Lynda is a poet who longs for the life of The City from her south jersey town and will stop at nothing to get the life she thinks she deserves. At time I gasped and was horrified at her actions and at other times I cheered along with her. Lynda is so absurdly hilarious and beyond delusional. Shes a pathological liar and obviously has some personality disorder that allows her to throw even her own mother under the bus at times. I enjoyed the outfit descriptions and the fact that the book captured the glittering cultural zeitgeist of the disco era. I will say that Lynda
is so terrible of an anti hero that I wanted her to fail and to get in trouble! She’s a crafty, evil lead that I couldn’t empathize with at all. But her red siren outfits that she chooses, and the historical rock and roll and disco themes kept me hooked!

Lynda is reluctantly living with her parents and working as a teacher in New Jersey, but spends her nights at the New York disco scene. She is an aspiring poet and yearns to be back in East Village. Forty years on, two musicians she discovered are now huge stars and Lynda is in hiding. She decides to tell her story and put the record straight. This is such a brilliant book with lots of funny moments. I also loved the 70s nostalgia. Lynda is such an awful character, but this comes over in such a humorous way that I ended up loving her and even at times feeling sorry for her. Her mother was also a great character. A wonderful read.

Thank you Net Galley and Lisa Borders for an advanced copy of “Last Night at the Disco”.

I have a thing for novels that take place in decades of the past and really enjoyed diving into the chaos of 1970’s NYC from the perspective of Lynda Boyle. Lynda so desperately wants to be someone of importance and she will literally do whatever it takes to rub shoulders with whoever she needs to in order to create the life she thinks she wants to live. She works as an English teacher during the day and then spends her wild and crazy nights at Studio 54.

Ultimately, we have a sort of coming of age story of someone who truly is trying to figure out who they are. Lynda’s a bit too confident in all the wrong ways and it most often leads to disaster. She somehow manages to weasel her way out of it all every single time! Chaos follows Lynda wherever she goes until finally that turns into something entirely different than what she thought she wanted or needed.

I found this book enjoyable to read.
Lynda is narcissistic and she’s not that nice but so charming that I couldn’t help but keep reading, wondering what she was scheming about next. The disconnect between her and the realities of her situation kept me on hook, and the mystery of who her husband actually was did provide me some sort of glee when I figured it out. An unpredictable journey full of ups and downs, Last Night is funny, insane, and over-the-top in all the best ways. Would recommend to my friends to read. Thankyou for this arc book.

This was a really fun read! I love music based books that take place in the 60s and 70s and this really made it feel like the main character knew all those people. The narrator really reminded me, in a good way, of a Gillian Flynn narrator. At first she just seemed kind of unlikable, but then she became totally untrustworthy too. I really enjoy reading things like that as it is less predictable where it's gonna go. This wasn't a totally twist and turns kind of book, but it still did lead you along without knowing where it was going. This was fun as the ride was enjoyable. The pace was great and it never felt like it was dragging.

*Last Night at the Disco* follows Lynda Boyle, a once-aspiring poet turned frustrated fame seeker, as she grapples with her past in the music world. In 1977, she believed she could turn two local musicians, Johnny Engel and Aura Lockhart, into rock legends, only to be overshadowed by their success. Forty years later, Lynda, in hiding after a series of missteps, is fueled by rage as she sets out to reclaim her story and her place in history, navigating a complex web of ambition, friendship, and betrayal.

Exceptional stuff.

Last Night at the Disco, which I received from NetGalley and Regal House Publishing, is one of those novels that won't please everyone; the lead character is either wildly delusional or the cleverest person in, at the very least, Keyhole, New Jersey.

Lynda is not exactly where she wants to be. She once lived in the East Village and was a poetry student. Somewhere along the line she moved in with her parents and ended up in Keyhole, New Jersey. But Lynda's not quite ready to throw in the towel yet. She dreams of being a poetic pioneer and being discovered, with the help of a gifted student in her class.

How do you channel the great Lynda Boyle (an excellently mundane name)? Well, you need to provide sexual favours liberally, be sexy, know how to dress, be ready to take drugs at the drop of a hat, have unlimited self-confidence, ensure that you have a boyfriend, two, possibly three at the same time in your pursuit of a #1, #2 and #3 kind of guy, love the East Village, continue to find inspiration and poetry and make sure to be on the guest list at Studio (if you need to say 54, you're probably from New Jersey). Obviously, loving disco is right up on the list based on that criteria.

Lynda is also a master of human psychology. She knows, she always knows. It's as fresh a catchphrase as Maree's - You're right, you're right, I know you're right. Borders writes her with great gusto, narrating her sequence of events with great comic patter. Her partnership with Patti is delightful, as is her relationship with Aurora's grandmother. I would make the error of summarising the story, but I think you have to sink into Lynda's delusional energy. She refers to Fleetwood Mac as the white noise of the '70s. Don't be delusional, love.

In a nutshell, she wants to leave Keyhole, her suburban parents, become a muse for an artist, party at 54. Live life vicariously. Have a read while listening to Donna Summer and shake your groove thing.