I loved the boarding school setting of this fast paced thriller! It had some great character development and enough twists to keep me engaged. I would definitely be interested in reading more from this author.

Thank you to the publisher! This book took over my life for a couple of days! I found a new favorite author as well. This was such a great book and I gave it 5 stars! I loved the boarding school setting. The characters you loved but hated at the same time. Every twist and turn was completely unpredictable which made me have a hard time putting it down. I will recommend this book and this author to many of my viewers and friends who love thrilling mystery stories.

This book was one of my favorite suspense books all year!! I would definitely reread and recommend to others!!

This story revolves around The Goode School. An all girls prep school where a student is found hanged at the front gates. The story was very atmospheric and really captures the teen girl drama. However, I did not connect much with the characters.
Thank you for the ARC. This was my honest review.

This book was full of twists and turns that kept me guessing until the end. It was such a good read. The setting was great. I love boarding school settings so this hit all those points for me. This was just generally a solid book for me and I keep going back and forth on my rating so for now I'm going to put it at 4 stars because I think it needed that little extra something to put it over the edge.

I was so excited to receive a copy of this one! JT Ellison is one of my favourite authors! This one took it to a whole other level. The writing was fantastic, the story was creepy and sinister. Once again JT Ellison didn’t disappoint!

This book was AWESOME! I love reading books about girls in boarding schools and those kind of situations. They always make for such great storylines. This book had so many twists and turns and just when you think you have it all figured out, they throw something else at you! GREAT BOOK!

I liked the concept of this book, but it really just kind of drug on for me. I don’t want to give away anything but the whole twisted story line seemed way too far fetch. I do however love a story set in a spooky boarding school, just think the plot could have been better and we could have seen better character development.

Good Girls Lie is a fast-paced thriller set in a small town in Virginia anchored by a prestigious all-girls prep school. There's a new student from England--and a lot of death. Fans of teenage drama and mayhem (I am!) will throughly enjoy this thriller. I admit I saw all the twists coming but still enjoyed the hell out of it and adored the ending.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this. I will be posting a full review to Goodreads, Amazon, and Instagram.

If one needed any more reminders that teenage girls are scary things, Good Girls Lie is a great reminder of that. Good Girls Lie follows Ash as she arrives at her new boarding school in Virginia. After both of her parents died in a murder-suicide in England, it only makes sense for her that she try to start over at a boarding school in America. Only, she doesn’t have the easiest time starting over, as other secrets around the school start to come up, as well as the death of her fellow students. When first reading the novel, the shifting point of view were slightly confusing. However, as one continued further into the book, the shifting view points became less confusing, and significantly foreboding. The unknown killer helped keep the reader suspicious of every character, and like a good thriller, no character could really be trusted.

Good Girls Lie is a campus thriller that is captivating and immersive. I loved diving into the world of the Goode School and found the politics and secrets fascinating. Ellison does a good job of setting the stage and characters and moving the story along. While Ellison littered enough clues for me to keep up with the mystery, I was still left guessing up until the very end. I was in the mood for a quality thriller, and Good Girls Lie definitely delivered.

Unfortunately, this was not the book for me. I tried very hard to read it, but I had to DNF it.

I don't feel like I can accurately review this book as I did not finish it. So I kept this as neutral as I could. And rated it 3 stars.

Thank you for allowing me the chance to read it.

J. T. Ellison delivers a tense, fast-paced thriller set in an exclusive girls' boarding school in rural Virginia. Like many a good mystery, Good Girls Lie opens with a murder. A girl's body hangs from the iron gates at the school's entrance. She's wearing her graduation gown and her feet are mired in morning fog, enhancing the gruesomeness of the scene. Her face is "hidden behind a curtain of dirty, wet hair, dark from the rains. Even were her face visible, her identity would still be unknown because of the damage it has sustained. Beyond the iron gates, the school perches ominously in a foggy haze, full of legends, lore, deadly secrets, and, perhaps, a murderer.

Good Girls Lie is populated with complex, intriguing characters, with Ash Carlisle at the forefront of the story. She has come to Goode for a second chance following traumatic family events. "A new life. A new beginning. A new chapter for Ash. But can you ever escape your past?" She will be known as Ash Carr, sworn to secrecy about her past and assured privacy by the school's headmistress, Dr. Ford Julianne Westhaven, who has offered Ash the second chance she desperately needs. Ford wants to be a novelist, but she was pressed into duty after a scandal brought her mother's tenure as dean to an abrupt end. Her mother insisted that it was her duty to take over and run the school that has been helmed by her family since the early 1800s -- resisting pressures to make the school coed. Now Ford feels trapped, despite the fact that the school is thriving under her leadership.

Ellison relates the story through varying vantage points. Ash describes her experiences through a first-person narrative that quickly reveals disturbing details about her family's past, including the recent deaths of her parents. She wants to fit in with the other girls, desperate to keep her true identity known so that she can be "just another Goode girl, accepted because of privilege, brains, and whatever inestimable quality Ford has seen in the application and interviews."

But Goode is populated with students who are anything but good. They manipulate, compete for attention and popularity, and pull new students into long-held rituals carried out by secret societies. Faculty members are aware of the traditions, but strive to keep them from becoming deadly. Tales about a haunted arboretum, bell tower, and mysterious staircase leading into the institutions' murky underbelly contrast starkly with the school's seemingly peaceful existence in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains that surround the campus.

Ellison skillfully reveals the school's secrets, along with those Ash is harboring, as the story progresses and the tension accelerates. Ash reveals early on that she is a liar -- "I've never understood my compulsive desire to lie." But with her mother's encouragement, she came to Ash determined to change. But Ford becomes increasingly suspicious, even though she interviewed Ash via videoconference before admitting her to the school. Ash is a gifted pianist, but suddenly has no interest in pursuing her piano lessons. She has excelled in her computer course and Ford comes to believe that she is a skilled hacker. But if she truly wants to keep her past a secret, why would Ash draw attention to herself? Ellison keeps readers guessing to what extent Ash is succeeding at turning over a new leaf and, if not, the extent to which she has manufactured her past and, perhaps, very identity. Ash proves to be a deliciously unreliable narrator. And, as calamities befall Goode, the number of characters who are suspects multiplies as quickly as the number of dead students. As the dark, atmospheric mystery races to its shocking conclusion, Ellison injects surprising twists and revelations at deftly-timed intervals, making Good Girls Lie a compelling, absorbing thriller.

Good Girls Lie was a thrilling, spooky thriller that has wonderful twists! I loved the fact that the story takes place at a boarding school! I thought it was well written and suspenseful! I didn't want to put it down!

J. T. Ellison is one of my go to authors for a fast paced thrilling read! Her Taylor Jackson series and Dr. Samantha Owens series are among my favourites!
Good Girls Lie is a stand alone novel by this author.
It is the twisted tale of girls in the Goode School, an exclusive all-girls boarding school in Virginia which funnels it's girls into ivy league schools.
This story is full of secrets, secret societies, drugs, death and many twists and turns.
Convoluted at times but certainly worth the read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin/Mira for an arc of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

The reading experience was jagged because I couldn't get into it and it wasn't the book's fault. I kept picking it back up and down. But once I got used to the characters and background I was enthralled in this mystery set in the ivy bound background of an all-girls prep school where we see the threads of friendships and the power of lies can do and far people will go. There were red herrings galore and the twists made my jaw drop.

I received an advanced digital copy of this book from the author, publisher and Netgalley.com. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

This book felt recycled from the many other girls' boarding school mystery books. Unengaging, unoriginal and terribly formulaic, it fell flat on every level.

1 out 5 stars. Do not recommend.

Good Girls Lie is a story about an all girls boarding school and the secrets behind it’s ivy coated walls. Ash Carlisle is a sophomore transfer student from England. She is hoping for a fresh start in the US boarding school after the sudden death of both of her parents. However, before classes even have a chance to kick off, Ash is already being singled out by the older girls at the school. All she wants to do is fade into the background while she heals from the emotional trauma of losing her family and her home, but the girls at her new boarding school would never allow that.

If you’ve followed my reviews for a while, you might have guessed, I’m a sucker for a boarding school story. I also have an affinity for thrillers and suspense novels, so throw all of those things together and you have the makings of my ideal read. And boy did this book really hit the mark. It pulled me in from the very start. The story literally begins with a death, so no holds barred with this one. The timeline goes back and forth giving us glimpses into Ash’s life before the death of her parents and you can begin to see a mystery unfold, though it keeps you on your toes the entire time.

This was just such a compelling read. Every time I had to put the book down in order to do real life things, I felt myself counting down the minutes until I could pick it back up again. I just wanted to read straight through to the end of this wild ride.

If you’re a fan of thrillers, definitely give this one a read!

Thank you so much to Harlequin and MIRA for a review copy of this book!

Private school, murder, cliques, unrequited love, more murder, what more could you want in a book? I was hooked from page one turning pages as fast as I could read them. This was the first J.T. Ellison book but won't be my last.