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The Girls Are All So Nice Here: A Novel Hardcover – March 9, 2021
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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 “propulsive” (Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills) psychological thriller.
A lot has changed in 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 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 “chilling and twisty thriller” (Book Riot) 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.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateMarch 9, 2021
- Dimensions6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101982144629
- ISBN-13978-1982144623
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"The Girls Are All So Nice Here" kept me up all night — literally. I tore through the book in less than 24 hours, forcing my eyes to stay open as if the remaining pages wouldn't be there in the morning."—USA Today
"A college reunion. A toxic friend group. Revenge. All the makings of a page-turner are here in Flynn’s book." —Entertainment Weekly
"This chilling and twisty thriller centers on two former best friends who return to their alma mater for a college reunion. Once there, they quickly realize someone is targeting them for revenge for what they did ten years ago. Devastatingly dark and thrumming with tension, The Girls Are all So Nice Here offers a juicy, unflinching portrait of the complexities of friendship and social ambition."—Book Riot
"The story takes place in two alternating time periods: the freshman year for the girls of the story, and the ten-year reunion for the same bunch. Somewhere back in the early times but not revealed until much later, terrible things have happened on campus, and somebody’s going to pay a penalty. Many secrets are withheld until late in the story, and while this is a familiar device, Flynn makes it work with special power by piling on the details in numbers and in specificity. Sex, betrayal, scheming — all come into play in dark and heavy loads. Is there someone to root for in all of this? Only at the reader’s peril."—The Toronto Star
"With The Girls Are All So Nice Here, Flynn takes the insecurities that come with being a young woman and sharpens them into a deadly point. I read open-mouthed as Amb navigated the complex social calculus of her worlds right up until that stinging kick of a final chapter left me breathless."—Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network
"Laurie Flynn smartly examines the darker complexities of friendship, ambition, and social dynamics in this propulsive thriller. Full of twists and surprises, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE reminds us that the past has a long reach, and secrets never stay buried forever. I couldn’t stop reading until the shocking final twist!"—Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl From Widow Hills
"Alternating between Amb’s time at college and the present day, Flynn reveals the darkness girls are capable of, building toward a thrillingly unsettling ending."—Electric Literature
“Dark, twisted, and utterly gripping, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE explores the unparalleled cruelty of mean girls on a leafy college campus. This propulsive thriller has a killer ending to match its killer title.”—Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Swap
“THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HEREis twisted, compelling, and so very dark. This devastating story about the friends we keep—and those we don’t—is surprising in the best possible way. Flynn's first adult fiction book makes me wonder what she'll come up with next.”—Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It
Juicy, twisty, and relentlessly unsettling, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE is more than a thriller; it's a masterful portrait of the complexities of female friendships and the raw yearning to fit in. With characters unflinchingly wrought in all their vulnerability and a setting so real, I felt I'd visited the Wesleyan campus myself, this book is a brilliant and wickedly wild ride. I couldn't put it down. —Andrea Bartz, bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd
"A sharp, pitch-black thriller that takes the mean-girls trope to another level."--KIRKUS
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To: “Ambrosia Wellington” a.wellington@wesleyan.edu
From: “Wesleyan Alumni Committee” reunion.classof2007@gmail.com
Subject: Class of 2007 Reunion
Dear Ambrosia Wellington,
Mark Your Calendar!
The Wesleyan University Ten-Year Reunion for the Class of 2007 will take place May 25–28, 2017. Join us for a weekend of catching up with former classmates and attending exciting events, including the All-Campus Party and formal class dinners.
Online registration is available through May 1.
If you’re planning to attend, a full list of area hotels can be found on Wesleyan’s local accommodations page. A limited amount of on-campus housing in our dorms is available. Most rooms are doubles—perfect for reaching out to your old roommate to relive some memories!
Sincerely,
Your Alumni Committee
I delete it instantly, just like I do the sale emails from Sephora and Michael Kors and the reminders from Fertility Friend that ovulation is right around the corner. Then I empty my recycling bin, because I know better than to think anything is ever really gone.
Two weeks later, a second email arrives. We haven’t received your RSVP! We really hope you’re joining us. It’s the written equivalent of a wagging finger. I delete that one, too, but not before scrolling down far enough to see her name, bolded, right under the list of Alumni Committee members. Flora Banning.
I forget about the two emails, because out of sight really is out of mind. It’s easy when each day is a variation of the same—taking the N from Astoria to Midtown; stopping at Key Food for groceries, reusable cloth bags cutting into my forearms. Happy hour shouldered in with hipsters at the Ditty, a second glass of wine, despite Adrian’s half-teasing Maybe you shouldn’t. But then I come home from work on Friday, shoulders sagging from the weight of the week, and there’s an envelope on the counter addressed to me.
“Hey, babe,” Adrian shouts from his position on the couch, tablet in hand, where he’s undoubtedly working on his fantasy football league instead of the perpetually unfinished novel he likes to talk about. “How was your day?”
“You left the door open again. Can you please start locking it like I asked?” One of the myriad things I nag Adrian about on a regular basis. Lock the door. Close the cereal bag. Pick up your dirty laundry. Sometimes I feel more like a parent than his wife.
“Relax. It’s a safe building. Hey, something came for you. I think we got invited to a wedding. Except somebody doesn’t know you got married and changed your name.” My new last name, a point of male pride that Adrian pretended wasn’t important to him. I don’t care, but do you really want the kids to have two last names? And yours is so long, he said during wedding planning, the first puncture in my newly engaged bliss. The kids, a brightening certainty on his horizon, my concessions for them expected and inevitable.
The envelope on the counter is addressed to Ambrosia Wellington, in neat calligraphy. Not Ambrosia Turner, the woman I became three years ago when I walked down a tree-shaded aisle at the Mountain Lakes House toward Adrian, his eyes already tear filled. I let him think Turner was for us, for the kids. He has no idea why I was so eager to get rid of Wellington.
Adrian turns around to watch me open it, expectant. He loves weddings, or rather, he loves the receptions, where he can get drunk and pose for pictures with people he’s just met, instant best friends, and invite them to dinners and barbecues we all know will never happen.
“Well, who is it?” he says. “Let me guess. Bethany from work. Is she still dating that really tall guy? Mark. The lacrosse player.”
Adrian and his friends, five and six years younger than me, still post engagement photos on Facebook and Instagram: girls with long hair and Chanel espadrilles, gel manicures to show off pear-shaped rocks, posing next to boys in plaid shirts. The PR girls who work under me at Brighton Dame are the same.
So basic, we used to call them, back when there was no way we would turn into them.
“Bethany’s twenty-two,” I murmur when I pull the card out. I ignore Adrian’s response, because I’m fixated on what’s inside. It’s not a wedding invitation. Nobody is requesting my presence at Gramercy Park or telling me the dress code is black tie or mandating an adults-only reception.
It’s more calligraphy, red and black against cream card stock. Wesleyan colors. The letters tilt slightly to the right, as if whoever wrote them was in a rush to get them out.
You need to come. We need to talk about what we did that night.
There’s no signature, but there doesn’t need to be. It can only be from one person. My face is hot and I can tell my neck is marbling red and white, the same way it always does when my anxiety flares up. I grip the countertop. She knows I deleted the emails. I shouldn’t be surprised; she had a way of knowing everything.
Adrian’s voice interrupts my spiraling thoughts. “The suspense is killing me. It better be an open bar.”
“It’s not a wedding.” I stuff the card back into its envelope, then shove it in my purse. Later, I’ll put it in the place I hide everything Adrian can never see.
He puts down his tablet and stands up. Of course he chooses now to grow an attention span. “You okay? You look like you’re going to puke.”
I could shred the card, but I know what would happen. Another one will come in its place. She was insistent then. She’s probably even more so now.
“It’s nothing. Why don’t we go up to the roof and have a drink?” The rooftop patio with its slices of Manhattan skyline, a feature of our building we thought we would use but rarely ever do.
He nods, curiosity temporarily assuaged, and arches across the counter to kiss my cheek.
I smile at my husband in relief, taking in his mop of curly hair, his dimples, and his pretty green eyes. So freaking sexy, my best friend, Billie, said when I showed her his photo. He looked exactly like his online dating profile, which is probably why I went home with him after our first date, the two of us reduced to sloppy mouths and hands in the back of a cab barreling down Broadway. I later learned that while his picture didn’t lie—not like a dozen other men before him, all of whom were at least twenty pounds heavier than advertised—his life story did. Yes, he went to Florida State, but he never graduated, instead dropping out in his third year to work on the same novel he has yet to complete a chapter of. Nowhere in his bio did it say he was a bartender, the only consistent job he has ever had.
But I overlooked that because he treats me well, because people are drawn to him, because I was drawn to him, to his steady warmth and self-assuredness. He didn’t know the person I was in college but loved the new embodiment of me so simply that I figured I couldn’t be as horrible as everyone thought. I never imagined I would end up with someone five years younger, but being older has had its benefits. Our age gap is small enough that we look good together but big enough that his instincts are softer, more malleable. When I pushed the idea of a proposal because I was creeping into my late twenties, he took the hint and picked out a ring. Not the one I wanted, but it was close enough.
Adrian tries to make conversation as we head up to the roof, but the voice in my head is louder. Hers. We need to talk about what we did that night.
There were two different nights, and I’m not sure which one she means. The one that started everything or the one that ended it. She never wanted to talk about either. Then again, she was the best at breaking her own rules.
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster
- Publication date : March 9, 2021
- Language : English
- Print length : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1982144629
- ISBN-13 : 978-1982144623
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,435 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- #8,128 in Murder Thrillers
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Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is a former model who lives in London, Ontario with her husband and their four children. She is the author of three young adult novels: Firsts, Last Girl Lied To, and All Eyes On Her, under the name L.E. Flynn.
Her adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021, sold in 11 territories worldwide, and became an instant bestseller in Canada. Her next novel for adults, Till Death Do Us Part, will be released in August 2024.
When she’s not writing, you can likely find her hiking in the woods, perusing thrift stores for vintage dresses, or bingeing on reality TV dating shows.
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Customers find the book's plot engaging, describing it as a good thriller with many shocking turns leading to one explosive ending. The writing quality receives positive feedback. However, the readability and engrossment receive mixed reactions, with some finding it a good read while others find it repetitive. Moreover, customers express disappointment with the character development, noting that none of the characters are particularly likable.
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Customers enjoy the plot of the book, describing it as a good thriller that leads to one explosive ending, with one customer noting its many shocking turns.
"...The gritty curveballs delectably held my attention, leading me to one explosive ending...." Read more
"...Predictably, her husband finds out. The ending is less predictable, although it felt a bit contrived...." Read more
"...The characters were engaging but not particularly likeable. The storyline was great, very engrossing and entertaining. I highly recommend this book." Read more
"...This book picks up speed as you read, throwing some twists in the middle and throwing you for a loop at the end!..." Read more
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"...As I interweaved through the chapters, I relished the author's superb penmanship in transiting back and forth from the present to the past...." Read more
"...The razor sharp writing and twisting plot will keep you guessing and your jaw dropping. Devious. Riveting. Raw...." Read more
"This book is well written, with many shocking turns. It gives a whole new meaning to the appellation "mean girls."" Read more
"...At least the writing wasn't terrible." Read more
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"...any psychological thriller I’ve inhaled over the years, this one kept me reading—not for the “Who Done It”, but for the “OH MY GOD!..." Read more
"...I liked the original perspective. Amb was a total bitch from the beginning, but at least she's somewhat human. Sully is a complete psycho...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021Ambrosia worked hard to change herself after college. But sometimes, running away from your problems can only go so far. When a threatening note and a reunion invitation show up at her doorstep, Amb has no choice but to revisit her mean girl past. Someone else knows what she did with her former best friend Sully, but who could it be? One way to find out is to attend the school reunion, where it all began. It's time to face the deadly game they once played with a boy and the innocent girl who paid for it. The past will always come back to haunt you.⠀
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THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE was a provoking tale of insecure and needy mean girls who lacked morality. As I interweaved through the chapters, I relished the author's superb penmanship in transiting back and forth from the present to the past. I never lost sight of the story, and it also helped me identify the true nature behind every character.⠀
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Amb and Sully were by far the worst duo I've ever encountered. Ambrosia was a follower at heart, with belonging issues. In adulthood, she was a little less annoying but just as stupid. On the other hand, her bestie Sully needed a good exorcism for all of the terrifying evil that lived within her soul. I just hated them in every sense of the word, making Laurie one hell of a good writer. Luckily we did have a bright light in Flora, Amb's roommate. She was one of the reasons that carried me through it all.⠀
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Honestly, I'm not too fond of "school drama" themed books, but I'm glad I gave this thriller a chance. At times, I experienced slow-moving parts, but it was all worth it once I hit the middle mark. The gritty curveballs delectably held my attention, leading me to one explosive ending. I would have never guessed the outcome, and oh my, was it damn satisfying! I'm very much looking forward to seeing what Flynn has in store for us next.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021Unlike any psychological thriller I’ve inhaled over the years, this one kept me reading—not for the “Who Done It”, but for the “OH MY GOD! THE THINGS THESE GIRLS KEEP DOING!”
This book is intense. It’s unsettling. And so real and raw I think I felt my spine split open a few times. Truly horrifying. That said, I binged it in a day, feeding the troops popcorn for dinner because I Just Couldn’t Tear Myself Away.
Flynn’s surgically precise language is so sharp, so stunning, it almost feels like a character in the story. Flynn can twist the reader’s gut in just a few words, simultaneously luring you to the next sentence, the next scheme, the next horrific choice—all while beautifying a character’s deadly mouth with fresh coat of lipstick. Her writing made me feel like Amb and Sully were caught in her devious, writerly web, which made me happy. And that’s saying a lot because joy isn’t a central theme in this novel, if it’s even touched on at all. Still, I didn’t put it down. Couldn’t put it down.
This isn’t a recommended read if you aren’t comfortable with young women openly exploring their sexuality and the power it holds. Or women who dare decide they don’t want kids, that motherhood isn’t for them. Flynn reminds the reader again and again, that being a woman is transactional. She doesn’t shy away from saying all the things that shouldn’t be taboo to talk about. Like a woman’s pleasure. Disappointments. Desires. All the things that make Flynn an insta-buy purchase for me now and forever.
This book has stirred a lot of buzz, with so many readers commenting on the girls. Sully. Amb. Lauren. But Flynn provides us with many reasons to contemplate if the the boys are so nice here. We all play a role in gender politics and Flynn’s searing latest reminds us that none of us are truly innocent.
Unlike any psychological thriller I’ve inhaled over the years, this one kept me reading—not for the “Who Done It”, but for the “OH MY GOD! THE THINGS THESE GIRLS KEEP DOING!”
This book is intense. It’s unsettling. And so real and raw I think I felt my spine split open a few times. Truly horrifying. That said, I binged it in a day, feeding the troops popcorn for dinner because I Just Couldn’t Tear Myself Away.
Flynn’s surgically precise language is so sharp, so stunning, it almost feels like a character in the story. Flynn can twist the reader’s gut in just a few words, simultaneously luring you to the next sentence, the next scheme, the next horrific choice—all while beautifying a character’s deadly mouth with fresh coat of lipstick. Her writing made me feel like Amb and Sully were caught in her devious, writerly web, which made me happy. And that’s saying a lot because joy isn’t a central theme in this novel, if it’s even touched on at all. Still, I didn’t put it down. Couldn’t put it down.
This isn’t a recommended read if you aren’t comfortable with young women openly exploring their sexuality and the power it holds. Or women who dare decide they don’t want kids, that motherhood isn’t for them. Flynn reminds the reader again and again, that being a woman is transactional. She doesn’t shy away from saying all the things that shouldn’t be taboo to talk about. Like a woman’s pleasure. Disappointments. Desires. All the things that make Flynn an insta-buy purchase for me now and forever.
This book has stirred a lot of buzz, with so many readers commenting on the girls. Sully. Amb. Lauren. But Flynn provides us with many reasons to contemplate if the the boys are so nice here. We all play a role in gender politics and Flynn’s searing latest reminds us that none of us are truly innocent.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2021This is a decent read although I found it hard to develop any compassion for its protagonist. She has supposedly moved on from the “mean girl” she’d been at college but we are asked to take her word for that. Her husband comes across as a shallow but handsome loser who she patronizes (and deceives) like a friendly pet. There’s nothing in the Now that compels the reader to root for her; she’s too busy obsessing on how to preserve her delusional marriage by keeping her husband in the dark at her 10 year reunion. Which turns out to be impossible, considering the notoriety she’d achieved! Duh. Predictably, things go from bad to worse. Predictably, her husband finds out. The ending is less predictable, although it felt a bit contrived. Perhaps it would have had more of an impact if I would have felt something besides ambivalence for the protagonist, but there wasn’t anything to root for. She was a manipulative, self-absorbed girl who grew into a deceptive, self-absorbed woman. This book is entertaining enough to justify the time spent reading it, although don’t expect to be amazed.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 20213.5 stars
I liked the original perspective. Amb was a total bitch from the beginning, but at least she's somewhat human. Sully is a complete psycho. They were like gasoline and fire, destruction everywhere they go. None of the characters were really likable apart from Adrian and Flora.
Flora was such a sweet girl.
I was torn between feeling sorry for Amber because she is mildly remorseful. But then I stop feeling sorry for her because she chose to be awful.
A lot of disturbing stuff happens in here. Rape, suicide, murder, lying, cheating, bullying and the list goes on.
I can't say that it's my favorite book ever, but I wanted to see Amber and Sully get what they deserved.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025I really enjoyed this fast paced thriller. It was in my TBR pile which I am finally getting through. The characters were engaging but not particularly likeable. The storyline was great, very engrossing and entertaining. I highly recommend this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021I liked the book, or most of the book, but it felt like the author bailed on the ending. Most of the book does keep you involved and makes you want to read more to see what happens. The ending only takes a page or two and felt like something made for TV. I really expected something better and more believable.
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- RockbiddyReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2022
4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and gripping
This dark, compelling tale is narrated by Ambrosia Wellington, "Ambs" for short, spanning two timescales. There is "then" when she was a student at Wesleyan University and "now", ten years later when she reluctantly attends a university reunion along with her husband. There are hints in the Now passages that Ambs did something bad while an undergrad but she feels some ambivalence about it and the extent of her own culpability.
On first arrival at Wesleyan Ambs is desperate to fit in with those girls she considers classier than herself. This longing soon mutates into a desire to be the best friend of Sully who may not be the most liked girl in the dorm, but is the most outrageous and attracts attention wherever she goes. Ambs soon learns that the price of Sully's friendship involves unquestioningly going along with behaviour which is selfish, unethical and immoral. Motivated by desire for a boy she encounters briefly on campus and always anxious to impress Sully, Ambs' behaviour descends into a pit of deceitfulness,, cruelty and hatred.
It is testament to the author's writing skills that I found myself unable to put this book down. I raced through to the end despite finding the main character increasingly vile. This is an engrossing read but I've only awarded four stars simply because of the horrible nature of the narrator and of what she did.
- lyraReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Great thriller with depth
I absolutely loved this. I think other reviewers may have been missing the point when asking why characters weren’t likeable - I felt it was an insight into how difficult early adulthood can be and how hard it is trying to fit into new groups and meet others’ expectations.
Loved the university setting - similar in tone to Good Girls Lie, perhaps? Good thriller/mystery - I enjoyed the two time period setting and the slow drip feed of information (eg which characters were alive in present day or not!).
I was genuinely quite sad to have finished this - a really enjoyable read and looking forward to more from the author.
- Sam I amReviewed in Canada on May 1, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a twisted and fun ride!
I really enjoyed this thriller! I was hooked from the first page, and the author kept me guessing till the end. The exploration of toxic friendship and the way we treat our fellow women was so well done.
- AmberReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2021
3.0 out of 5 stars Good read but very predictable..
I chose this book after seeing reviews about a big twist so thought I'd give it ago but unfortunately it just felt very predictable and I worked out what was going to happen quite early on in the book. That said, the subject of how awful females can be to one another was disturbingly true and well written.
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in Canada on May 3, 2021
3.0 out of 5 stars An easy book to read
The story is interesting and moves fast. It is pure entertainment.The characters are superficial and simplistic. A bit too evil or too nice to be believable. The book does send a message and has a moral .
Worth your time to read , good entertainment.