The Girls Are All So Nice Here
A Novel
by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
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Pub Date Mar 09 2021 | Archive Date Mar 09 2021
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
"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
“Dark, twisted, and utterly gripping, The Girls Are All So Nice Here 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 Here is 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
Marketing Plan
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-Online influencer campaign
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-Book trailer video
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781982144623 |
| PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Wendy W, Reviewer
Dark, twisted, genius thriller which examines social relations between teenage girls and ways in which conflicts may turn into a deadly obsession. 5 star.
Attention: it is not just another fast-paced, exciting thriller. It is a fast-paced, exciting thriller which delves deep into the compelxity of teenage girls' friendships, jealously, bullying, insecurities and ambitions. Flynn wrote a sharp, poignant thriller about very real societal problems young women inevitably face.
I read The Girls Are All So Nice Here glued to my Kindle. Megan Miranda and Samantha Downing, some of my favorite authors, recommended it for a reason. It is about a ten-year college reunion of Abrosia and Sully, two former best friends who did something really bad way back when. And at the runion, they unexpectedly receive messages which make it clear that someone wants to know the truth about what happened- and it's going going to be pretty.
The Girls Are All So Nice Here is absolutely shocking and dark, and what's the best part about this thriller is that it reads so realitically.
*Thank you to the Publisher for a free advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Amy B, Reviewer
What a tangled web! I was hooked from the first chapter! Unlikeable, flawed characters drive a dark tale of jealousy, deceit, lust and suicide...or is it murder? Atmospheric a and moody, with twists Hitchcock Would be proud of! Get your hands on this thriller, sure to be a best seller...or maybe a Lifetime movie?
Reviewer 441055
Psychologically disturbing yet extremely captivating, this book delves into the minds of college educated women and whom is at fault for a tragedy that occurs during Ambrosia's freshman year. What saddened me is that both her and Sully saw everything as disposable as evidenced the most by how they treated others. They were simply a plaything to be thrown away when bored. Kevin and Flora fell victim as well as Adrian really actually not even knowing whom he married. It was chilling to hear all the emails came from a gmail account and I could not put the book down. The last chilling sentence said it all.
Carrie C, Librarian
What college girl hasn't felt a bit uncertain about where she fits in or yearns for more attention? I went back 30 years and found a little bit of each of these characters in my college self. The main difference was... I was never involved in a crime, and I never knew a villain as bad as some of these girls! This was a book that kept me turning pages all night until I found out who was leaving mystery notes for Amb and Sully. Wow, what a twist!
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