The Girls Are All So Nice Here

4 amazing stars to the girls that are actually not so nice.

Think Mean Girls, but 50 times darker and twistier.

Ambrosia Wellington gets an invite to her college reunion but she doesn't want to go. But when she receives a note that's more menacing and personal, she knows she has to because Ambrosia wasn't a nice girl in college. She has secrets of her own that she hasn't told anyone, not even her husband. So when she wounds up going to her college reunion, secrets slowly unravel and Amb is taken back to the night that changed her life. But the girls are so nice here, aren't they? Someone is after Amb, sending her more notes, but who? What do they want? Told with alternating timelines, Amb takes us through a journey of her freshman year and her college reunion, making us feel like students ourselves who went to school with her.

This book deals with some heavy content matter so beware before reading. Flynn crafts an explosive psychological thriller that dives into the depths of female friendships, what they think they are owed and how far they will go to get what they want. Mean girls being mean, and nice girls trying to fit in. This book has it all.

I was immediately hooked from the very first page and I knew from the beginning that I would fall in love with this book, and it's really hard not to. Our narrator Ambrosia, well let's just say she's a very complicated person. She's one of those narrators that you love at first, then you hate her, then you love her again. It's an ongoing cycle. You sympathize with her, but then you wanna give her a good wack. Questionable choices, questionable friendships.

It's not that we don't know that something happened, we do, but we don't know what. And as we follow along with Amb, we slowly begin to see the manipulation and mind games that lie at the core of this novel. We see the power that young girls hold once they realize that it's in their grasp. But even after we find out what happened, it's what's after it that's shocking. The amazing thing about this novel is that we think we know what the narrator gives us, but we really really don't. We don't know the full story until the very last thrilling page.

This sounds like your usual mean girls story, but it's not. It's very different for reasons you have to find out for yourself. Flynn captures the essence of mean girls and toxic friendships in such a dark and wonderful way, it's hard to tear yourself away from the story. The twists are plenty, the pacing is perfect and the story never gets boring. You can't help but find yourself flipping past the pages till the very last one. This is a psychological thriller with shocking revelations that you won't want to miss. A spectacular job by Flynn and I cannot wait to watch this show and see what she comes up with next.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for providing me with an advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review.