Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they’re being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before—and will stop at nothing to get it—in this shocking psychological thriller about ambition, toxic friendship, and deadly desire. A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads “We need to talk about what we did that night.”. It seems that the secrets of Ambrosia’s past—and the people she thought she’d left there—aren’t as buried as she’d believed. Amb can’t stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane “Sully” Sullivan, Amb’s former best friend, who could make anyone do anything. At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they’re being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. This person wants revenge for what they did and the damage they caused—the extent of which Amb is only now fully understanding. And it was all because of the game they played to get a boy who belonged to someone else, and the girl who paid the price. Alternating between the reunion and Amb’s freshman year, The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a shocking novel about the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they’re owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death.
I read this book very quickly and I enjoyed every second of it. It is very fast paced and the end of each chapter leaves you desperately wanting to know more. When reading, it made me think of Pretty Little Liars and Mean Girls so if you are a fan of either of them, then you might like this book.
I especially liked how the book what told through two different time periods, one being the present day and the other being during Amb’ college days. Each ‘email’ or message Amb received made me want to know more about what truly happened and why she was so terrified about her secret coming out. Towards the end of the book the past and present entwined and the story came together perfectly.
The characters were very well developed and as it went on, I really felt that I knew them really well. At some points Amb was a little bit annoying but when certain things happened, I liked her again. Sully was very well written and I can easily compare her to (but not to the full extent) people from my school. Flora was such a lovely character and I felt so sorry for her, I felt like Flynn conveyed the theme of depression very well through Flora. I honestly think everyone will be able to identity with these characters and recognise certain characteristics from other characters with people from school/college, etc.
I am not going to mention who the blackmailer was, but what I will say is that it was such a twist and I didn’t see it coming. In some books the blackmailer/mysterious person is a character that has only been in the book for a short amount of time and (I feel like) the author does this for shock value rather than making sense within the story, but this book the reasons why this person was the blackmailer makes a lot of sense.
What can I say about this book? Right from the second I picked it up I fell in love with it. If you are a fan of thrillers, mysteries and college dramas then this is the book for you!
I read this book very quickly and I enjoyed every second of it. It is very fast paced and the end of each chapter leaves you desperately wanting to know more. When reading, it made me think of Pretty Little Liars and Mean Girls so if you are a fan of either of them, then you might like this book.
I especially liked how the book what told through two different time periods, one being the present day and the other being during Amb’ college days. Each ‘email’ or message Amb received made me want to know more about what truly happened and why she was so terrified about her secret coming out. Towards the end of the book the past and present entwined and the story came together perfectly.
The characters were very well developed and as it went on, I really felt that I knew them really well. At some points Amb was a little bit annoying but when certain things happened, I liked her again. Sully was very well written and I can easily compare her to (but not to the full extent) people from my school. Flora was such a lovely character and I felt so sorry for her, I felt like Flynn conveyed the theme of depression very well through Flora. I honestly think everyone will be able to identity with these characters and recognise certain characteristics from other characters with people from school/college, etc.
I am not going to mention who the blackmailer was, but what I will say is that it was such a twist and I didn’t see it coming. In some books the blackmailer/mysterious person is a character that has only been in the book for a short amount of time and (I feel like) the author does this for shock value rather than making sense within the story, but this book the reasons why this person was the blackmailer makes a lot of sense.
What can I say about this book? Right from the second I picked it up I fell in love with it. If you are a fan of thrillers, mysteries and college dramas then this is the book for you!