Reviews with content warning for Drug use - The Girls Are All So Nice Here

A solid thriller, one that's well-plotted and keeps you on your toes. That said, I never found myself particularly invested in the characters' outcomes and was weirdly... unsatisfied (?) by the ending. I'm not sure what to make of it!

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Update:
I can’t stop thinking about this book. Bumped it up to a 4.5

4.25⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A story of wanting to be accepted, seen, loved but at what cost? A true mean girls book. Obsession, destruction, lies, guilt, murder, revenge. All things I wasn’t expecting but it sucked me in until the very end.

It was an interesting and uncomfortable take to be in the POV of one of the mean girls. To be inside her head and thoughts as things spiraled out of control.

I would’ve loved a bit more clarity at the end. But I guess that’s what keeps you thinking about it even after you’ve finished reading it.

I enjoyed it a lot!

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signediza's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

In her mid-thirties Ambrosia Wellington (now there's a name) is working in PR and is married to Adrian, a hot younger man. Ambrosia is perturbed to receive an invitation to a reunion from her university - she doesn't want to return to those days when she known as Amb and was one of the 'mean girls'. When she arrived at university feeling gauche and reeling from a cheating boyfriend, she fell in with Sully, a girl who exuded danger and mystery. Ambrosia wanted to be one of Sully's 'chosen ones' but this meant acting in increasingly callous ways. Someone is determined Ambrosia will be at the reunion and she receives a handwritten note saying that they need to talk about what really happened that night. Who sent the note, what do they want from Ambrosia, and will it cost her everything including her life?

This is one of those books which has main characters that you love to hate. The two main characters, Sully (Sloane) & Amb (Ambrosia) display grade A nastiness and cruelty when they decide to wreck a fellow student's long distance relationship for the heinous crime of being too nice. (Well that's Amb's excuse, whilst Sully's reason is more that Flora can see through her facade). The book moves between the reunion weekend in the present and what happened in the past, and it shows the casual cruelty in the competition and one-upmanship that the girls indulge in. It was very well written and I flew through it, but I did think the ending rather overegged the pudding though.

Thanks to NetGalley & publishers, HQ, for the opportunity to read an ARC. I am voluntarily giving an honest review.

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