From the summary, I thought this book sounded amazing and I had such high hopes for it. I always appreciate book that keeps me guessing and trying to figure out what is going to happen next. This book delivers!
Ash is one of those characters that you can't help to want to more more about. The bits and pieces of clues and background were dropped in at such a rate that you were engaged the entire time. The twist was something I had not expected and I loved every moment of it. This was my first book by J.T. Ellison, but definitely not the last.

Wow, J.T. Ellison has hit another one out of the park with this book! The story line had some really interesting twists and the characters were so over the top but really interesting. Not your usual rich girl, smart girl, leader of the pack etc. This book would be a good read for young adults, as well as adult fiction. If you've read and enjoyed Ellison's other books you will like this one!

The type of book you don't want to put down till the very end. Great story since I couldn't figure out whodunit till the very end.

Although the whole background of this story is utterly strange to me, I've really enjoyed it. With 'strange' I mean the all-girls boarding school (we don't have them) and the way those rich girls are treated (as if they are more important than others). Not to mention the way those girls treat each other.
It is hard to write a review without spoilers for this book. I can tell you, however, that I liked the pace, the background stories and the way the author gives all characters their own definition. Not all mean girls are equally mean and not all good girls are equally good. I felt sorry for the dean (aside from her ridiculous first name) because she really tried, but failed in reaching her goal with the school. Early in the story it is obvious that there is more than meets the eye, but it is not so obvious that you can see all surprises in the story too soon.

Thanks to Netgalley for this digital review copy.

SO good! Full of surprises at every turn, even when I thought I had it figured out, this title kept me heavily engaged throughout! Really enjoyed the depth of characters and the ties of their relationships, and how it all played out in the story.

Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

J.T Ellison brings to us a slightly more grown up version of Pretty Little Liars. It's a quick mystery set in an all girls boarding school where a new student has arrived and questions begin to arise. Will all the secrets cloud the truth so much that a death never gets answers? Or will things begin to unravel and reveal the truth that nobody saw coming? This is a chilling and twisted tale of the boarding school of your nightmares, complete with the elitist school girl mentality you'll be glad you escaped.

Set in an idyllic location in Virginia, the Goode School is an exclusive prep school for the best and brightest female students, who are exclusively the daughters of the rich, famous, and influential. Ash Carr is new to the school. Brilliant, beautiful and haunted, Ash has left tragedy behind her in England. With both of her parents dead, Ash is firmly focused on the future, and on the distractions that only life at Goode can provide.

Ash is soon drawn in to the subterranean world of secret societies, and falls under the spell of Head Girl Becca - stunning, seductive, and cruel. But when one of the students is found dead in an apparent suicide, questions start to be asked. Are the societies responsible? Or is there something much deeper and darker at play?

I LOVED this book. I've read tons of novels dealing with sorority hazing and secret societies, and not one of them did it as beautifully as this. I love how there is a real sense of the sinister creeping in chapter by chapter as the author ratchets up the tension, and I also loved that the characters were so well-developed and multi-faceted. Becca, for example, could have been a black and white villain, but the author allows us insights into her character that show how she too, despite her cruelty to Ash, just wants to be accepted. I think a lot of the focus sometimes goes into the central protagonist and we don't see the intentions or true feelings of the other characters, but this book does a brilliant job of doing both. Genuinely chilling, with lots of cleverly plotted twists and turns, and I LOVED the ending. This author is going straight to the top of my to watch list. Absolutely fabulous. I'll be recommending this one to my book club and reader friends for sure.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Good Girls Lie had a real Gossip Girl meets Cruel Intentions (both of which I love!) kind of feel for me. It takes place on the grounds of The Goode School, a private school for super-rich and elite girls on the path toward only the best, ivy league schools. The school is designed to groom girls to be honest, responsible and dignified young ladies. With its exceptional reputation already on shaky ground after some recent and serious past scandal, the school is thrown into panic mode when a student is found hanging from the front gates. Everyone has their own theories but what really happened at Goode?

Every once in a while, I like to delve back into the YA relm and enjoy a little teenage angst and drama and this definitely had all of that! This was a bit of a slow burn for sure, I feel like it probably could have been about 100 pages shorter, it definitely had moments that it felt like the story was really dragging on. However, with that said, Ellison was so good at dropping little nuggets of mystery or intrigue at the exact right moment when maybe my interest was wavering and it would suck me right back in. The characters were so well developed and Ellison set the scene so well I felt like I was right there in rural Virginia. While the end was mostly satisfying, it gave me lots of closure, I was left wanting a more exciting twist to really wow me. Nothing really shocked me, it was good, don’t get me wrong I just wanted more! I don’t recommend reading this if you plan to send your daughter to an elite all girls boarding school but otherwise, this one is worth a read.

Always ready for a boarding school mystery, this was a bit more twisty than anticipated. It was much less predictable than expected.

This book kept guessing until the very end. I didn't love the characters but I doe feel the storyline was well thought out and fun.

This book was not at all what I expected. This book is full of twists and turns with an ending that I didn’t see coming.

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. 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.

Ash has moved from England to go to The Goode School. She is recovering from a tragedy and wants nothing more than to have a new beginning. She finds that she is not going to be accepted easily by the girls at school. She tries to stay to herself and just get through school. Before she knows it she is embroiled in a life she never expected. How long can Ash keep her secret from being exposed?

This was a very well written book and I enjoyed it a lot. Without giving to much away I really hated the fate of one of the characters. She grew on me and I wish things ended differently for her.

This book was amazing. Much darker than your average YA, and although I predicted the twist pretty early, it did not take away from the reading experience whatsoever. Beautifully developed characters, with touches of shocking cruelty that kept a touch of u comfortableness throughout. Delicious.

I feel as though some parts could have been condensed, because at times I felt a bit lost. Overall this book was very enjoyable and had some memorable quotes. I am a sucker for private school settings.

A fabulously creepy, Gothic-inspired suspense novel by J.T. Ellison.

It’s obvious from the outset that Ash Carlisle is hiding something. She arrives as a sophomore to Virginia’s hyper-exclusive all-girls boarding school, the Goode School, in the Blue Ridge mountains. She’s clearly favored by the dean, Ford Westhaven, but immediately vulnerable to bullying by her fellow students, particularly senior Becca Curtiss. Ash can hold her own, and as she gradually peels back layers of her past, one wonders how much she’s capable of. But with secret societies, cliques, hazing, academics, and her own conflicted emotions, Ash struggles to adapt to Goode. At the same time, as much as Dean Westhaven is eager to leave Goode for good, she doesn’t want to do so under a cloud of scandal like her mother did. With a student’s mysterious death and threats that her own illicit relationship may be revealed, Ford has difficulty maintaining the facade.

Good Girls Lie is impossible to put down and will keep you in suspense until the very last page. #NetGalley #GoodGirlsLie

JT Ellison did not disappoint! I cannot wait for this book to be published in December so you all can get your hands on it. A British orphan gets sent to an all girls school in America after her parents commit suicide. She’s clearly hiding something and things keep happening to her along the way. The ending was not something I thought was coming!

I had a very hard time reading this one. Seemed slow to me and dragged a lot. Often times very confused as to who was who especially when Alex was added to the plot. Ellison is one of my favorite authors so hard to give a 3 star review but it’s definitely not one of her best titles. *thank you netgalley for the arc

The Goode school only accepts the very best girls. There are so many secrets at the Goode school that it makes reading the book quite a thrilling ride. Ash comes to the Goode school from England as a sophomore and quickly becomes singled out. Becca is head girl and seems to be in charge at the school. Camille is Ash's roommate and isn't friendly to Ash at all. As the secrets are slowly revealed, you can not put the book down! I thoroughly enjoyed this wild ride! I received an advanced readers copy and all opinions are my own.

I wanted to love this book so much, and I did really like it, right up until the end. There's girls dying all over the place in the midst of college like sorority hazing at an all girls high school, intrigue, the dean sleeping with someone years younger, myths and legends abound, and then the end was just BLAP. Over, done, completely anti climactic. It was abrupt and really did this great plotline a disservice. I'd probably still read it, even knowing that, but it was a really disappointing and frustrating end.

This book is a must read! A high class, female only boarding school, with some nice girls, and some not so nice. Lots of secrets exposed. It kept me guessing until the very end.

In sorry but this book delves into a subject matter that infuriates me...school bullying.
The book could be the best-known the world but all I can see off his subject matter.
I did finish it.and it was a good book but not my cup of tea ,sorry.