The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a book I have been really looking forward to reading and was thrilled to be accepted for an ARC. I am a fan of school/ college based stories, probably harking back from my love of Mallory Towers and St Clare's as a child. The Girls Are All So Nice Here is told in a mix of 'present' and flashbacks with Ambrosia as the central character. She attended Wesleyan with high hopes of becoming an actress, but most importantly, of reinventing herself and meeting new and interesting students and being part of the in crowd. She quickly realises that she doesn't quite fit and after the first day is despondent. Her roommate Flora is a sweet, possibly naive, girl who sees the best in everyone and everything and is a ray of light in their dorms. She tries to befriend Ambrosia but isn't quite the best friend she has in mind. On the other hand, wild girl Sully enchants Ambrosia and soon the two of them are thick as thieves, but at what cost? We follow the dramatic and tragic course of the girls' Freshman year at Wesleyan interspersed with plans for a reunion ten years on where secrets may start to unravel and old wounds reopened.