Title: Good Girls Lie
Author: J.T. Ellison
Published: December 2019,
Format: ARC Paperback, 464 pages
Source: Publisher
Summary:
Goode girls don’t lie…
Perched
atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School
is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school
of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the
best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and
honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant
futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come
to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous.
In a world where
appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the
rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the
dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away
with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot
be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove
her to suicide.
But look closely…because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened.
J.T.
Ellison’s pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of
friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go
to to protect their secrets.
My thoughts: I have been a fan of J.T. Ellison’s stand-alone books for quite a while now. She manages to create such wickedly addictive reads and this one is no exception.
There is just something so fun about a story dealing with a girls’ boarding school, especially one that has secret societies and girls that are brimming with secrets. Add in an unknown narrator and a completely atmospheric setting and it just totally amps up the tension and suspense. I could not flip the pages fast enough, trying to work out just what was going on and which characters were trustworthy and which were not.
I loved this book. It is twisted and dark and just when you think you have it all worked out, that you know where things are headed, a new twist pops up to throw a wrench in the works and I loved every minute of it. Nothing is as it seems with these characters and that is what makes this book so good. There’s manipulation, deviousness and that mean-girls vibe running through this book, with a double-crossing revenge angle that hooks you and never lets up.
J.T. Ellison is an author that never lets me down and I’m so grateful for that. This is one psychological thriller you do not want to miss – it’s such a binge-worthy read and one that will keep you hooked from start to finish. Pick it up, you won’t be sorry!
About the author: J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 20 novels, and the EMMY-award winning co-host of A WORD ON WORDS, Nashville’s premier literary show. With millions of books in print, her work has won critical acclaim, prestigious awards, and has been published in 26 countries. Ellison lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens.
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