Thank You Netgalley for the opportunity to read Good Little Liars by Sarah Clutton. This was a good book and I look forward to reading more by this author. There were parts of the story where I was having to push my way through but overall it was a good read.

Really great read.... The 25th school reunion is coming up for Emma, Marlee and Clementine. You'd think the fact that Emma hit 'reply all' to the reunion email, thinking she was just responding to Marlee and discussing her lack of sex life with her husband and her thoughts on Tessa who was a pupil in their year who died just before they left school would be more than enough drama... But no!

The author takes us on a roller-coaster ride or adultery, secrets, lies and friendship.

Loved all the twists and turns and how everyone was somehow connected.

Great book... Oh and really did not like Emma's husband, what an idiot.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to review, this is my honest opinion

I actually really enjoyed this book. From the synopsis I thought that the book was mostly going to be about Tessa’s murder, but I was in for a juicy surprise. Good Little Liars was filled with plenty of drama that connected Emma’s life to the other main characters. Even though Tessa’s death becomes the center of the story as other characters are introduced, I believe the other women’s lives are really the main attraction.

I wasn’t as wowed as I thought I would be when I found out the real story behind Tessa’s death. I think that was the only thing that I found a little disappointing. Other than that, character development was great and it definitely kept me interested.

Not only does this book have a great front cover, it is also a captivating story which had me gripped from the beginning. I really enjoyed reading this book and it was an easier read. The only issue I had is that feel like it was lacking something ... especially around the middle, i just thought it needed something a bit more! Despite this, I would definitely recommend reading this!

Your school friends know the truth about you – the person you were before you got the flattering haircut, the great career, the loving family. The lies you’ve told.

It’s been twenty-five years since Emma graduated from Denham House Girls’ School, and twenty-five years since her friend Tessa died. Now, just as a class reunion approaches, Emma has found herself back at Denham House, staying in the headmaster’s old staff cottage while her marriage implodes. But it’s in this cottage that Emma finds an old photograph that had been hidden away. An explicit image of Tessa, staring boldly at the camera, dated the day before she died.

For Emma, this photo proves what she had always suspected. Jon Brownley, the current headmaster, was involved with Tessa. Emma had seen them arguing in the school grounds back then, and had always regretted not speaking up after her friend’s death was ruled an accident. She feels that she let her down. But if she can find more evidence now, could it be her chance to atone?

However, as Emma starts to dig into the past, talking to old friends back home for the reunion, she discovers that everyone remembers the past differently, and that the innocent schoolgirls she thought she knew might be hiding some very big secrets.

Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book. For a first time author this showed great promise and was extremely well written. However, I did find it a little slow in places and had difficulty in distinguishing the relationship of some of the characters. I look forward to the authors next book.

Thanks for the chance to read this book. I was not familiar with this author and it sounded good. I am sorry to say that I wasn't really impressed. She is a good writer but the story just did nothing for me. The characters/chapter narrators were just blah. Harriet is a nasty self-serving woman who has basically no redeeming qualities. Emma is a woman who can't make herself grow up and deal with her marriage and family until absolutely necessary and she was still so immature and clueless. Marleen was a drunk who liked to say she was promiscuous and a lush because she was hiding what happened 25 years before. She was the most likable of the three but that isn't saying much.
The 25th reunion was made to appear to be a huge deal in the book description but it was actually maybe 10-15 minutes in real time and only a handful of pages in the book. It did absolutely nothing to further the story and aside from Clementine having a few laughs at her classmates expense it was not important to the story at all. The same with the car accident that is thrown in for what reason I do not know towards the end because it also added zero to the plot or story to me.
The 20 months later chapter at the end of the book was supposed to tie up some loose ends but it really didn't. How did things come to a close and get to the point where Emma was with her life...not discussed....Marleen was no great shock there because her's was expected and uninteresting. Harriet was supposed to be made into a woman trying to be human and caring but it still wasn't there for me and as for the 'loose end' with her brother that's thrown in at the very end without explanation was just wrong. It could have made things more solid in a few areas of the story but it's just thrown in for added measure. This book is not a thriller or mystery. It's women's fiction.

This book was very well written. Nice and easy to read and flowed well. Had me on the edge of my seat. Wondering which way it was going to go. Great mystery can’t beat it.

Good Little Liars by author Sarah Clutton is a great thrill of a book! It did not disappoint and overall I thoroughly enjoyed it and the characters (whether it’s the dislike or like, they were strong)!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an arc copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I was looking forward to this book a lot. I enjoyed it but it was slow to get into for me. I liked the premise of the book and the different character POVs. Good book nonetheless.

Thank you Netgalley, the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I always enjoy a good mystery involving an all girls school with secrets and this one was no exception! Told from multiple points of view, it centers around Emma, her old classmates, and their families now and back then, twenty-five years ago. One of her classmates, Tessa, was killed shortly before graduating and it affected everyone - even now they live with the repercussions of that day. Officially an accident, those close to her believe it was anything but, and Emma in particular is determined to get to the truth. There is a twenty-five year reunion coming up and the mystery of Tessa's death is just the distraction that she needs.

She still works at the school, under the headmaster Mr. Brownley, who a much loved teacher to all the girls back then. Her marriage is deteriorating and she looks to her close friend Marlee for friendship and assistance with figuring out what happened to Tessa. Marlee has just started a new job and is growing ever closer to her boss, Ben. Ben is separated from his older wife, and his stepdaughter, Clementine is a famous artist who was a classmate of Emma, Marlee and Tessa. It's not her point of view that we see from that family, it's her mother, Harriet's. She also happens to be Mr. Brownley's sister. We get a slightly different picture from her, as a parent and not a classmate.

It may sound complicated with the different characters and their relationships, but it's not hard to follow. The women all have distinct, well-developed personalities although they are not without their faults. The story is a little slow at first, introducing the women and their current lives before delving in to the detail's of Tessa's death. It's necessary world-building and didn't stop me from quickly becoming engrossed in the story. It's rare that I can look back and recall just about every characters name well after finishing a book, but it shows how much of an impact this author's writing has. Stick with it and you will not be disappointed!

Great book will be reading other books by this author.
Will also recommend this book to others.
Great read! 5*****

Good Little Liars had a great premise,but it just fell short for me. The book was slow and wasn't really a thriller. The characters are well developed.

Good Little Liars was an interesting read. Although it was categorized as a mystery/thriller, it didnt quite read as one. It had the feeling of two tangential storylines fighting for importance in a solitary novel. On the one hand, there was an interesting story centered around the relationships between characters and the dynamics at play. The storyline around who killed Tessa did not seem to hold as much importance or draw as much interest, in comparison.

The story itself was well-written and fun to read, though the end felt drawn out. The characters started losing a bit of their depth, which was unfortunate. I did appreciate the diversity in characters though. Although I was not a fan of many of the characters, they spanned a broad range of personalities, which was refreshing.

It is hard to rate this book, simply because it feels much like two books in one. It was a very interesting experience overall.

A complete review will be posted on social media closer to the date of publication.

Good Little Liars is described as “A gripping, twisty novel about lies, loyalties, and the secrets we keep to protect those we love.”. After reading it I think the publisher may have confused their books! I wasn’t gripped, there’s a small twist but it’s not groundbreaking and overall I was bored reading this. I left the last ten percent because it was clear nothing was going to happen.

Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get into this book. The description indicated it was gripping, but sadly it just didn’t grab me. I also found the main character a bit over dramatic and the whole premise confusing. Sorry, this one just wasn’t for me.

“Good Little Liars” centers around an upcoming class reunion, and the secrets that have been held since the death of a classmate under mysterious circumstances. Unfortunately, the details of that mystery are revealed in excruciatingly slow fashion, while the story plods though the mundane current lives of those involved. The characters are confusingly intertwined and it was hard to keep track of who’s related to who, and how they figure into the story. It seemed a great premise, but it’s a slow read, and it just takes too long to get to gist of the story.
I was given this ARC by the publisher through @NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a remarkable literary novel by a new author who is here is stay. There is a mystery at the center of the story but the heart of the story revolves around four women, an past accident in school, and how their lives and histories are shaped by the incident in a myriad of ways. Clearly drawn characters so well written that I could see them in a story so well written that I never wanted to end,

A bit slow to start for me but overall a good read with well developed characters, not one of my most favourite reads but it is a well written book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

This book wasn't what I expected at all. It started quite slowly with the death of Tessa Terrano only really coming into it about a third of the way in. However this didn't bother me at all. The characters were so vivid I was quite happy to read all about their lives and how they intersected, although that could be a little confusing.
That is not to say that I wasn't interested in finding out what had happened to Tessa. The flashbacks concerning each character and how involved in and affected by her death kept me reading well into the night. I loved the little plot twists and was not expecting the ending at all.
This is the first book I have read by this author but will be looking out for her work in the future.

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Twenty-Five years after Emma had graduated and lost her friend Tessa, Emma realizes that there may be more to her friends death after she finds a photo of her friend that just may shed some light on the relationship she had with a teacher. Or was it covered up with lies? This book is a page turner and I highly recommend it.