The story line was a little slow to start but halfway through it really started to pick up and I found it hard to put down. Really good book

Wow, J.T. Ellison did it again. This book was un-put-downable for me. A boarding school, a murder, a girl running from her past what more could you want? This is the perfect recipe for a fast paced thriller that will have you guessing at every page.

In Marchburg, Virginia, there is a school for only the best of young women. Women who will go on to Ivy League colleges and success in life. I absolutely loved the setting of this book. Ash leaves England and ventures to the Goode School, but when things start to come amiss she must figure out a new plan as well as fix many messes that have been started.

This is an addicting and captivating book. I am sure that you will fly through this one. J.T. Ellison has become a go to author for me and I don't plan on missing any of her books!

Thank you to Net Galley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I am always drawn to books that take place in a school setting, so I knew I’d enjoy this book. I picked up this book last night and finished it when I woke up this morning, Although the mystery wasn’t much of a surprise at all, I still enjoyed this book. Ellison did an excellent job with character development, which made up for the lack of a true twist or mystery.

It was not quite my genre, but I did enjoy it once I got past the first few chapters. It took time to care for the characters, but then it was an engaging read.

the good girl's lies surprised me on different occasions and there were twists that I didn't see coming. The school setting also grew on me after a while and I also appreciated the suspenseful writing.

The story takes place at a private women’s school, Goode Academy. Many of the students are children of Washington’s elite, senators, etc. Ash recently lost both of her parents, and is attending on a scholarship. But the school has secret societies, some who condone rigorous hazing. Dean Ford ignores what is happening around her, and things get crazy very fast. Then, a student dies in a mysterious way. Was it suicide, or did someone murder her? There are a lot of crazy twists and turns. This is a book you’ll find hard to put down. It keeps you guessing until the very last page. Highly recommend!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book. This is my honest review.

Goode school is an all girls boarding school where only the best go!
I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review -
At the boarding school there is a murder - or is it suicide?
this is the shocking story of two sisters who decide to change lives - and of course it is all about the money to be inherited.
But what is truly scary is how desperate one is - nothing will stand in her way!
And then - to the shocking conclusion!!!

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book. I have read most of J.T. Ellison's books and they never disappoint. This one is no exception. I always enjoy a story that is told through multiple points of view. This book really flowed and kept me turning the pages. It was full of twists and turns that I do not wish to spoil for other readers. Just when you think all is said and done, there is a fantastic ending! An exciting read for anyone.

Ellison never fails to disappoint with great psychological thrillers! Great page turner from start to finish with a fantastic ending!

JT Ellison is a master at weaving a story that keeps your interest. So much so that you do not want to have to put it down! JT takes you with her into an all girls prep school. Very exclusive and a guarantee to be able to get into the University of your choice. A new student arrives all the way from Oxford. This girl, Ash is just wanting to get a good education and keep her head down. However, her first day there she clashes with the leader of the schools social structure. And this girl isn't one you want as your enemy. Ash has too many secrets she can't afford to have come out. So many dangerous secrets. She is leaving behind a life filled with pain and death she doesn't want anyone to know about. However, from day one things begin to happen that threatens to knock down her wall of secrets.
A story told by Ash and dean Ford's perspective and Dean Ford has her own secrets.
This book will keep you guessing from the beginning to the very end. The twists and turns of the plots will keep you on your toes and really to the very very end. Thank you NetGalley and JT Ellison for allowing me to read this book and give my honest option. I appreciate a book that you can't guess and keeps you trying to the very end!

I absolutely adore Boarding School books, and have a particular fondness for American prep schools, despite being neither American or preppy so was instantly intrigued by the premise of Good Girls Lie, a thriller set in the exclusive Goode School, an all girls school for the bright and well connected in the Virginian mountains.

The book starts with a body attached to the school gates, a body the girls whisper belongs to Ash Carlisle, before we are catapulted back in time to Ash's arrival at the school from her home in England. It's immediately apparent that Ash is carrying many secrets, as is everyone at the school. The Goode School is a place of tradition, rife with secret societies and rules, spoken and unspoken, presided over by a young head who feels as trapped within the ivy clad walls as any of her charges.

The narration moves from Ash to the head, to a cop helping her uncle investigate the body with the odd chapter narrated by other characters or third person from their viewpoint. It is, perhaps inevitably, present tense. This change of POV creates tension and speed, emphasising that no one can be trusted and all narrators at the Goode School are unreliable, but makes it hard to build any connection with any character and this lack of connection makes it hard to really get into the book, more observers of the events that unfold rather than really at the heart of the action. I also found it hard to gauge who the intended audience is - the place and age of many of the characters have a YA feel, but the language and explicitness in the sex and violence suggests an older audience.

Good Girls Lie is twisty, hiding secret upon secret all the way through and is entertaining enough, but the lack of connection made it hard to really care about what happened next or to invest in any characters diminishing any shock value or final pay off, hence the three stars rather than the four it might otherwise have been.

Overall I enjoyed this book! The beginning starts off very slow, and some what choppy. After the 10% mark it took off and I couldn’t stop reading. The Goode Girls are very prestigious, wealthy, teenagers. This book takes you into the secret society of boarding schools with many dark twists and turns.

Ash comes from a broken home, and the Goode School is her new place to start over. However, her new life comes with a lot of destruction and loss.

SPOILERS: Good Girls Lie brings a dark twist to the orphan girl finds herself at an all-girls prep school tale.. It's not obvious at the beginning how many narrators are involved in telling this story, which adds to the tension. There is no doubt something is up with Ash (or the girl pretending to be Ash) at the beginning. Even the piano teacher picks up on it. I started to wonder then if she wasn't who she said she was. Indicators were already there, but I was left wondering how this was going to develop. The author has written a book about people not living as their true selves. The head girl, Becca, was denying her sexuality for fear of the consequences and Alex had assumed an identity both for her own safety and to have better opportunities. I do think the Epilogue was unnecessary and was not at all believable considering how the characters had been developed in the main story.

Overall, this was an engaging book with enough twists to make it hard to put down. But many of the characters and the overall story fit into the usual trope about teen girls, boarding schools, secret societies, and all the bullying that goes along with that. There were too many characters with seemingly complicated motivations that were never fully developed to make you feel any sympathy or empathy for them. Even the main character is rather flat. For all that, it was entertaining - it's just not anything great.

The book started off kind of slow for me, but turned into a page turner soon enough. I didn’t like it as much as Lie to Me or Tear me Apart. Some of the point of views were confusing and some of the characters were hard to keep track of. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy in exchange for review.

3.5/5 stars

Well this author nailed it!!
An amazing story that kept you guessing on what next. I didn't know that there was another sibling who orchestrated it all. Wow!! Wow!! Loved it.
Another must read book. Thank you #nergalley

J.T. Ellison hasn’t disappointed me yet. I was so excited to get an advanced copy of this book, thank you netgalley. This book as well as all of this authors books are wonderful. A thrill ride that keeps you guessing and never disappoints. Highly recommend!

I hate to say this, I KNEW! It takes more than this to surprise me! I would never send my daughter to an all rich girls school! They come out feeling entitled, like most feminist! I did like the story, for the creep factor! Because of it being genuinely creepy, lot of which one really did the murders, I did know, from the meeting on the street when they were very young. Here is where I am irritated, I grew up physically hit by my father, painful for years! I never murdered anyone, stole their money, of took drugs! I am tired of this being an excuse. The story is brilliantly told!
I highly recommend! Thank you Netgalley!
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Unfortunately after several attempts I have been unable to get into this book even though it was written by an author whose work I have enjoyed in the past.
As I have not read the whole book I do not feel that it would be fair to post a review elsewhere so will not be doing so.

The prodigious Ms Ellison does it again. Focusing on most of her books is sure to earn the reader a lot less sleep than one would wish. "Good Girls Lie" is certainly one of her best creations and the only thing wrong is that it must end. The reader will than be forced to wait for her next novel to come out.
The setting for the book is at a private prep school for girls located in the town of Marchburg, Virginia. The school has been at it's present location for about 200 years. It provides high quality education to a select group of 200 young women. These ladies come from a top tier group of wealthy and important people who want their daughters to go directly from the Prep school right into Ivy League or equivalent universities in order to take their place quickly into the high levels of society that their parents inhabit.
Ash Carlisle is a girl that grew up in England in a home with a wealthy father that unfortunately constantly beat and belittled her. She could not wait to get out from under his thumb, especially since her mother was afraid to confront him to protect her daughter. She manages to be accepted to the Goode school but during her preparations to leave for the US her father and mother die apparently victims of a murder- suicide event.
With this horror behind her Ash begins her studies apparently under a black cloud. A school counselor that she sees during her first day dies, apparently due to constant problems with allergies. Shortly after the term begins a student dies under strange circumstances.
Ash does not make any friends and seemingly likes it like that. She has a run in with what is the senior woman on campus and strangely this develops into a friendship between the two. Due to her relationship she is invited to join a secret society; one of several on campus and carrying the prestige and future contacts similar to sororities and fraternities in college.
Ms Ellison builds a mesmerizing story centered on the world of a leading Prep School and does a good job in making the persona involved come to life. The ending brings an unseen twist to the novel and it is a perfect ending for it. A very enticing novel and as indicated one that will certainly cause her readers to anxiously await J.T. Ellison's next book.

This very complex story begins with the discovery of a student hanging from the main gates of Goode School for Girls, some students horrified but more fascinated by the macabre. The storyline then flashbacks to when Ash enters the school after the tragic death of her parents. From the brief encounter with her fellow class mates we can see, for Ash it’s not going to be a cakewalk. Secret societies, hazing, psychotic girls, twists and turns, though a tad tedious at times but overall a great read with an unexpected ending. I actually loved it, it drew me in.
Thank you NetGalley for the chance to review this book.

I was a bit worried when I picked up this book and realised it was set in an all girls boarding school, I’m not a fan of teenage girls, I didn’t even like them when I was one - way too much melodrama. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how well Ellison managed to write the girls in this book so that I didn’t feel the overwhelming need to slap them all (not sure if that means they aren’t very realistic though!?!)

The Goode School is a prestigious academy steeped in history and tradition. The atmosphere around the school is really enjoyable with an almost gothic feel to it. The elite world of secret societies and honour codes was a nice refreshing setting for me for a thriller. We follow the arrival of 16 year old Oxford raised Ash Carlisle as she arrives at the school following the deaths of her parents. Unfortunately it seems death follows Ash and soon deaths at the Goode school are starting to add up to something very suspicious.

I found this book to be a great page turner and had some interesting twists and turns. I enjoyed the world Ellison created more then the story, which was a solid captivating mystery.

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.