Review: Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

Thank you to MIRA books for including me on the blog tour for this book. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of Good Girls Lie, all opinions are my own.

About the Book:

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.

My Thoughts:

I gave this book three stars, I am unsure exactly how I felt about this book. It took me way too long to read because it took over halfway through to get with the flow of the story. By that point, I had totally figured out what was going on and I was right. However, there’s an excellent twist at some point in the story (not going to tell you where so I don’t spoil it) that definitely elevated this book to the “decent thriller” level. I’ve read most of Ellison’s previous psychological suspense novels, and this one is on par with most of them except for Lie to Me which I loved the most because of its excellent surprises.
It’s definitely worth reading, I liked the boarding school setting and the secrets everyone was hiding from each other. I wasn’t particularly connected with any of the characters, although I did have sympathy for Ash when some of her secrets were revealed. I can just say I’m glad that I didn’t go to this school!