Another day, another review! I picked up this one when my mom and I went to Barnes & Noble to “browse but not buy.” Naturally, we walked out with five books in tow. This was one of them!
Think Gossip Girl but at a boarding school and lots of dead bodies. Good Girls Lie was written by J.T. Ellison, who is also the author of Lie To Me (highly recommend). My favorite aspect of the book was easily the atmosphere—a boarding school for rich girls who want to go Ivy. In my head, the building was beautiful, historic, and somewhat gothic. However, the story itself didn’t exactly have a fully gothic feel.
My GOSH were the girls awful to one another in this story. Growing up, I knew lots of girls with way too much time on their hands, access to way too much money, and an insufferable desire to be cruel to one another. There was no loyalty or respect, only self interest. This was a huge part of the story that would relatable to any female reading the book. To say I didn’t picture real life girls as some of these characters is a lie, which made the story that much more intriguing!
Some of the twists did feel like cop outs, so I couldn’t get behind all of them. To make up for those, though, was an epic plot twist on the very last page.
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.
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.
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