Girl Dinner

By Olivie Blake

Book Overview

DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .

Good girls deserve a treat.

Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.

After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey.

Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don't fit right, her girl-dad husband isn't as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House's academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250883458
• ISBN13: 9781250883452
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

I was first drawn to this book because of the cover which promised what I thought would be some delicious darkness and a chance for some fierce feminism against the patriarchy. The viewpoints of Nina and Sloane (at very different times in life, one a college student looking to pledge at a sorority, and the other a new mom heading back to work) both finding themselves a part of The House with its share of very successful women and a dark secret to achieve that success, did have me interested at the start. I was intrigued by how the big reveal was going to happen and how Nina and Sloane would respond. That actually took awhile but it was interesting, especially with the differences in reactions (though I can't blame Sloane, that would be a harsh reveal!). After all that, it kind of meandered and while I enjoyed it, there wasn't any big push, just acceptance or not and a new kind of life with no big waves of change. Though the last actions of Sloane were nicely shocking and I kinda liked it, how the only that matters is the future and making sure her daughter has the best start possible to continue the fight. As an audiobook, it was well done with the narrators, Rita Amparita; Stephanie Németh-Parker, doing a great job in bringing Nina and Sloane and their hard decisions that they need to make to decide how the future will be and if they will be a part of The House or deny its successes. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to listen to this intriguing audiobook.