An easy 5 star read for me.....
“The Girls Are All So Nice Here” is Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s first adult novel after her success with writing young adult stories.
When Ambrosia Wellington arrives at Wesleyan, a prestigious college, she’s desperate to fit in. She struggles to navigate the rules of this strange, elite world filled with beautiful and privileged ‘nice’ girls. But when Ambrosia meets the charismatic Sully, she forms an obsessive and destructive friendship. She’s consequently drawn into Sully’s dangerous manipulations and doesn’t realise just how high a price the friendship will cost. Ten years on and an invitation to a Wesleyan reunion arrives with the message “its time to talk about what we did”. Ambrosia realises with increasing dread that any secrets she thought she had buried are going to be resurrected and with more and more anonymous letters and ambiguous emails arriving, its not long after she arrives at the reunion with her husband Adrian, that the event turns into fatal revelations. Ambrosia is desperate for Adrian to stay ignorant to her past but it becomes more and more impossible to stop him hearing rumours from her old college friends. Told in the then and now from Ambrosia’s first person viewpoint, we are privy to her first few months at college and the reunion events, that could turn her world as she knows it, upside down.
Not having experienced university or college campus life for myself, I’m always intrigued by stories set in these environments and the friendships formed within them. Saying this, I doubt I’ll read a novel that contains such toxic, backstabbing, catty, mean and poisonous women ever again. The sheer audacity of some of the things the girls would steep to do to others, was truly shocking. I loved how the characters all had unique personalities and you really didn’t know who was ‘nice’ and who wasn’t.
I adored this book from start to finish, its very graphic, straight to the point and exceedingly crude but I imagine very realistic of college life and its students. Unsettling and at times brutal to read, this thriller was an easy five stars for me.
“The Girls Are All So Nice Here”.........or are they? A first class novel, excellently written that I’m more than happy to recommend.
5 stars
When Ambrosia Wellington arrives at Wesleyan, a prestigious college, she’s desperate to fit in. She struggles to navigate the rules of this strange, elite world filled with beautiful and privileged ‘nice’ girls. But when Ambrosia meets the charismatic Sully, she forms an obsessive and destructive friendship. She’s consequently drawn into Sully’s dangerous manipulations and doesn’t realise just how high a price the friendship will cost. Ten years on and an invitation to a Wesleyan reunion arrives with the message “its time to talk about what we did”. Ambrosia realises with increasing dread that any secrets she thought she had buried are going to be resurrected and with more and more anonymous letters and ambiguous emails arriving, its not long after she arrives at the reunion with her husband Adrian, that the event turns into fatal revelations. Ambrosia is desperate for Adrian to stay ignorant to her past but it becomes more and more impossible to stop him hearing rumours from her old college friends. Told in the then and now from Ambrosia’s first person viewpoint, we are privy to her first few months at college and the reunion events, that could turn her world as she knows it, upside down.
Not having experienced university or college campus life for myself, I’m always intrigued by stories set in these environments and the friendships formed within them. Saying this, I doubt I’ll read a novel that contains such toxic, backstabbing, catty, mean and poisonous women ever again. The sheer audacity of some of the things the girls would steep to do to others, was truly shocking. I loved how the characters all had unique personalities and you really didn’t know who was ‘nice’ and who wasn’t.
I adored this book from start to finish, its very graphic, straight to the point and exceedingly crude but I imagine very realistic of college life and its students. Unsettling and at times brutal to read, this thriller was an easy five stars for me.
“The Girls Are All So Nice Here”.........or are they? A first class novel, excellently written that I’m more than happy to recommend.
5 stars