Suspenseful! I loved the boarding school aspect of this story and the characters who were not what they seemed. Hard to put down and had me guessing until the end!

I really wanted to love this book, but I did not. The premise really intrigued me but the story did not pan out in the end. I like suspense and thriller novels that seem almost like;ly to happen. This was too far fetched.

So many good reviews for this one but I struggled to finish. It's not that the story was bad or poorly written but this just didn't grab my attention.

Oh my goodness gracious this book! This was my favorite kind of story. It had a mysterious murder, the secret lives of the main characters, and a great surprise in the epilogue. It was perfection. A must read for fans of boarding school stories!

WOW! This is one of those books that I can't give too much away or what kind of fun would that be?

Twins, Rose and Bel Enright lose both of their parents at young ages and are thrown for a loop when they are sent to live with their Grandmother (whom they have barely talked to all their lives). On top of that, she decides that it would be best to send the girls to a Ivy League boarding school, really? She is a very cold woman and mothering two teenage girls is clearly not in her wheelhouse.

Rose is the straight laced sister and jumps right in no issues, on the end Bel is the "trouble maker" and gets in with the wrong crowd from the beginning.

Rose's mentor, Sarah Donovan, helps guide her in the right direction and gives her advice whenever possible. Bel's mentor is the handsome Heath Donovan (Sarah's husband) and that pair has trouble written all over it.

There are so many twists and turns - affairs, cheating, hazing, failing classes, expulsion - you won't know what hit you on each page.

I highly recommend you grab a copy and see for yourself.

Being a sucker for boarding school settings, I couldn't resist requesting the latest offering by Michele Campbell! Although, being somewhat aimed at the Young Adult reader, which I am not, I was a little hesitant if the book would pull me in, but I needn't have been concerned.

With a plot that is well written, and characters that I could empathise with, the author yanked me right in and kept my interest hostage throughout. How could it not when it covers the tension of sibling rivalry, some hanky panky, gossip, lies and murder!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading ' She was the quiet one' and look forward to reading more by Michele Campbell.

Many thanks to Netgalley, St Martin's Press and the author for an ARC in exchange for my unbiased opinion of this book.

I would like to thank the publisher. Martin's Press and Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this book, in exchange for my honest review.

I absolutely love this book. This psychological thriller got it all. fraternal twins, sibling rivalry, gossips, lies and affairs. and murder. This story centers around the twin Bel and Rose who are attending the fancy Odell Boarding school after they lost both parents. Soon after arrival at the school, the rivalry between the twins reaches new heights and it continues throughout the plot.

I really like the characters and I could empathize with both Rose and Bel. The story is very well written and the author keeps your interest and pulls you right in. I read this book in two sittings.
This is my first book by Michele Campbell and it will not be my last. Looking forward to read "It Is Always the Husband" soon.

When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright found themselves orphaned and being shipped off to live with their grandmother, the distance that had always been between them grew. Raised by an artistic single mother in Californa, Bel grew up with the wild spirit within her being nurtured while Rose's quiet nature made her feel a little left out at times. As the teenagers struggled with their mother's cancer, Rose stepped up to be a caregiver, letting her natural maturity take over. Now their mother is gone and their grandmother wants to send them to a boarding school to finish high school. 

Odell Academy is everything that Rose has ever dreamed of. Small classes with lots of intimate discussions. Strong academics as well as lots of extracurricular options. She feels like she's found her people at last. But for Bel, it's a different story. 

Bel, with her wilder nature, struggles to find a place at Odell. She quickly makes friends with some senior girls, almost unheard of for a sophomore like herself, But being friends with the popular senior girls comes with a price. For Bel, that price is her sister. Her new besties put her in the position to betray Rose, more than once, and Bel has to chose between her new friends that make her feel accepted in a strange land, or the sister who has always made Bel feel a little uncomfortable in her own skin. 

Meanwhile, Sarah and Heath Donovan are the newest dorm coheads, for Moreland Hall, which is known for housing some troubled female students. Sarah, a math teacher, and Heath, an English teacher, met while they were students at Odell, and after some shaky early years in their marriage, they are back on track to build a successful run at Odell. If they can just keep the students of Moreland Hall in check. But of course, Rose and Bel are both in Moreland, along with Bel's senior friends. And Bel's friends think that Heath is way too handsome to be with mousy Sarah and set up a contest to try to seduce him. 

The secrets that each character carries with them, the lies they tell, the choices they make all come together to end one young woman's life. But piecing together exactly how it happened will take patience, as the clues drop slowly throughout Michelle Campbell's She Was the Quiet One. 

With compelling writing and interesting characters, Michelle Campbell has crafted a story that could happen at any school, in any neighborhood, anywhere. The tension between the characters is so universal and so real that you just may have that dream of showing up to high school naked while reading this book. The family relationships, the marriage, the teenagers' ideas of themselves and their futures are so genuine that it gets difficult to remember that She Was the Quiet One is a novel. This book is a definite read, and Michelle Campbell is without question one to watch! 



Galleys for She Was the Quiet One were provided by St. Martin's Press through NetGalley, with many thanks.

Stories are often told about twins who have an extra-strong, almost supernatural connection—who share the same thoughts and feelings and ideas. But the teenage twins in Michele Campbell’s She Was the Quiet One couldn’t be more different—and their differences eventually turn deadly...

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I'm a sucker for boarding school settings, so this one intrigued as soon as I saw it.

It starts the first chapter/prologue with one twin being dead and the other accused of murdering her without revealing who is who. Loved that start. It hooked me right off the bat.
Next chapter we go back to see how it all started. You see the story through different POVs. Bels and Roses make up the majority, as well as Sara, one of the dorm heads.
I enjoyed reading everyones perspective and how I could relate to all sides of some arguments. The twins have a rough time after the death of their mother and their coping strategies are very different. Rose was always the calmer one, she was studious and serious, cared about their education. She's very logical and practical. Bel, on the other hand, was always more of a so-called free spirit. She was quite like her mother in that way. You could say she was rebellious, hang with the rough crowd and cared more about having fun, being liked and accepted and being able to do to her own thing.
The sisters, while not being the best of friends, were always there for each other, but the circumstances slowly drew them apart. Bel was struggling very hard with their mother's death, while Rose didn't have that many feeling about it, at least way more complicated ones. Bel was her mothers favourite.

Roses wanted to go to Odell, Bel didn't. regardless Bel hit it off with Darcy, a senior and troublemaker right away, while Rose had a harder time finding friends. That and some instances came between the sisters until one of them was dead.

About halfway through I was certain what had happened, but that didn't matter (I was right btw). It's more about the journey anyway.
What I found was brilliantly done, was how the author managed to change my sympathies for certain characters completely. I loved them and in the end, I hated them. I wasn't that into them and at the end I admired them.

I liked the writing style, the switching POVs and the police reports/protocols in between. That gave the story a different dynamic than most.

This story involves orphaned teenage twins. Sent to live with their affluent grandmother, they find themselves separated at a prestigious boarding school. Rose, is smart and serious while Bel is beautiful and rebellious. The trouble starts when Bel starts to hang out of the popular mean girls, causing a lot of friction between the twins. One of them ends up dead with the other accused of her murder. When I first started reading it, I thought it might dissolve into a YA novel but, it really never did. It was very good.

Michele Campbell rocked this book out. This book definitely covered a variety of issues of each of the characters. While at one point, I thought it was a little too much drama for one book, she was able to tidy everything up in the end. I only gave this book 4 stars because there were times throughout the book that it dragged and I had to force myself to stay with it. Otherwise it was a great read!

She Was The Quiet One. It had my interest from the first page. Sadness, girl pranks and misconceptions turned Rose and Bell's lives upside down. Sisters will fight but their love will always get them through the good times and the bad times. I recommend this book.

I love a good thriller and I especially love YA boarding school settings – the perfect place for a murder! This was a thriller about twins that are sent to a prestigious boarding school and while one is the good, quiet twin, her sister promptly gets in trouble. Told in more than one voice, the story has its twists and turns and will keep you guessing! For older YA and adults due to sexual scenes and violence.

I have mixed feelings about this one. The writing style and pacing made it nearly impossible to put down. I thought the mystery was sufficiently complicated and there were enough possible suspects/victims that I didn’t figure things out too far ahead of the characters.

However, adult + minor relationships always = ICK. The relationship itself wasn’t dwelt on so much as the resulting problems for the participants and those around them, so it wasn’t unbearable to read about. But, yeah, ICK.

Other things that bugged me: A lot of the conversations between characters felt really unrealistic and not worded how real people talk; character development was a bit shallow/superficial; and Mrs. Donovan about drove me insane toward the end...

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for a free digital ARC copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

In Michele Campbell's She Was the Quiet One, this thriller is quite disturbing, twisted, and all shades of crazy. For fraternal twins Rose and Isabel "Bel" Enright, their grandmother sent them to a top-notch boarding school in Connecticut after their mother died. They had been close and good friends, right until they stepped inside Odell Academy. Things had changed between them, when Bel hung out with the wrong crowd. Ever since they were a slipper attack against Rose and her roommate, it had caused a nasty rift between them, though Bel had been loopy from her pain medicine and had gotten off scot-free. But Bel had a secret crush with one of the nearest teachers that had lead to an infatuation and later a scandal. Besides Rose, other classmates were suspicious of her behavior and had caught off with their dirty secret. For Sarah Donovan, she thought she had a perfect marriage to Heath, her high school sweetheart, until he acted strangely to her and had an affair with Bel. But with more tension between Rose and Bel over the past couple of days, it had made other students hate Rose and gave her a hard time. As Bel took her affair to another level, someone knew about it and blackmailed the Donovans at the school--someone else other than Rose. And then later when Bel was killed in the woods, people blamed Rose and tried to frame it on her. She would do anything to prove her innocence when everyone was out to get her until she could convince someone else to take her side in the matter of life and death.

I seem to be reading more thrillers lately and She Was the Quiet One did not disappoint in this category. Recently orphaned twin teenagers are dropped off at a prestigious boarding school by their grandmother. I enjoyed reading about the different personalities of each twin and how they adjusted to their new surroundings. Bel gets caught up with the mean girl seniors and Rose is just trying to excel at school and find her place. While I could guess the true killer I still was engaged in the book and enjoyed reading it to the end. Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Net Galley for an advanced copy. Great book!

I really enjoyed this book! It did feel a bit YA due to the setting, but I didn’t see the twists coming and enjoyed reading it.

Honestly? I thought it was kind of predictable and boring. The writing was mediocre, and that's how I'd describe the whole book. Mediocre.

I loved this book! MicheleCampbell did an amazing job of knitting together the story of Rose and Bel. The twists and turns the story took kept me enthralled until the end! Heath was an interesting character and at first I didn’t know where he was going to fit into the story... whether he would wind up good or evil so to speak.

I will read more by this author!