268 reviews for:

The Christmas Party

Mikayla Davids

3.3 AVERAGE

kkaur23's review against another edition

2.5

slow-paced

bigmomma3's review against another edition

4.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

your_pal_al702's review against another edition

2.5

medium-paced

aprilsbookblog's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kftoole's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

katlinstirling_reads's review against another edition

3.0

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3-STARS

dan_dan1991's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lexiepf3's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

esymmes's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

zoeling's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book fell flat for me. I didn't feel like there was enough suspense/mystery for it to be a thriller, and not enough emotion or connection with the characters to be a compelling family story.

The POV changes between characters rapidly, and I didn't feel like each character had a distinctive voice, so it was hard to follow at times. In places the writing was fairly rudimentary. The POVs didn't feel realistic to how a 40 year old man, older woman, 30-year old women, etc would actually think/speak. 

There's also various side plots that just fade away pointlessly eg.

Leah's stalker and her romance at the party.

. These may well be explored in the second book, but just felt unecessary to this one. The incident that caused the family split was also not deeply explained, and didn't feel like a satisfactory reason for such dramtic consequences. 

Overall this book was forgettable. The writing style didn't allow you to feel connected to the characters, and therefore I didn't care much about what happened to them. I don't think I will be picking up the sequel.