Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox is your standard rich people dama, set when someone is found dead on the night of a sweet sixteen birthday party,
by Kelsey Cox
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| Title | Party of Liars |
| Writer | Kelsey Cox |
| Series | Standalone |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Publication date | 3rd July 2025 |
| MBR star rating /5 | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Genre | contemporary |
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Synopsis: Party of Liars
An exclusive black-tie birthday celebration. A secluded cliffside mansion with a complicated history. During the evening, a guest falls from a balcony onto the dance floor below.
As the events of the night unfold, it becomes clear that one guest has died and another may be responsible. Beneath the polished surface of wealth, status, and carefully maintained appearances, long-held resentments, hidden motives, and personal struggles begin to emerge.
The guests include Dani, a new mother with a history of postpartum psychosis; Kim, an ex-wife navigating alcohol dependency; Orlaith, an elderly Irish nanny with a belief in spirits; Mikayla, a lonely teenager trying to find her place among a close-knit group of girls; and two psychotherapists whose observations reveal more than they initially let on.
As the story moves toward its conclusion, the questions remain: who is responsible for the death, and whose body has fallen toward the sea?
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Review: Party of Liars
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox is your standard rich people dama, set on the night of a sweet sixteen birthday party, when someone is found dead
Novel Structure
The novel is divided into 3 timelines, based around the party, these are.
- before,
- during
- After
With During the party being the largest of the timelines, with the other two timelines added at various parts of the novel to add context to what is happening during the party.
In addition to the 3 timelines the novel is told through different perspectives of individuals connected with the party and the dead body. Which allows any reader to get a more in-depth knowledge of the events than if Party of Liars was told through one perspective.
While structure of Party of Liars allows any reader to have a greater knowledge of the whole story in this type of novel.
However, done badly and the novel can turn into a hot mess quickly.
Did the Structure of the Novel Work?
So where does Kelsey Cox’s, novel Party of Liars fall on this. Somewhere in the middle,
while, at no part of reading the novel was there any concern about both what timeline we are on or which individual’s perspective we are seeing it through.
What was the Point?
The problem is the plot of the novel is just a basic rich people drama.
Which the bookshelves of, Library’s, shops and readers’ homes. because this novel, has been written before many times and will be into the future, both better and worse.
So, while as a reader you may not be disappointed with reading Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox, there may be little or any pleasure from it,
Which means in general read Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox of you have space on your TBR Just do not go looking for it.
Who should read? Party of Liars
Due to the style and standard of Party of Liars by Kelsy Cox, having a well based structure the novel, but with a week plot line, this is ideal for fans of Rich people drama novels.
Rather than readers new to the genre. as this is not the novel that will bring new readers into this genre.
Conclusion
While as a reader you may not be disappointed with reading Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox, there may be little or any pleasure from it,
Which means in general read Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox of you have space on your TBR Just do not go looking for it.
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