The Good Girls

De: Claire Eliza Bartlett

Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo, Tara Sands, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Hope Newhouse, Hayden Bishop, James Fouhey, Andrew Eiden

One of Us Is Lying meets Sadie in this twisty, feminist thriller for the Me Too era.

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in America, Jefferson-Lorne High contains all of the above. After the shocking murder of senior Emma Baines, three of her classmates are at the top of the suspect list: Claude, the notorious partier; Avery, the head cheerleader; and Gwen, the would-be valedictorian. But appearances are never what they seem. And the truth behind what really happened to Emma may just be lying in plain sight. As long buried secrets come to light, the clock is ticking to find Emma's killer - before another good girl goes down.

©2020 Claire Eliza Bartlett (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

I hope you enjoyed the ride…

Powerful. Gripping. Unconventional.

There were enough clues for me to get the big surprise long before the reveal, but that doesn’t lessen the emotional impact of the story.

It’s a story to which every woman can relate; every woman has experienced to some degree. Sad but true. So men, if a woman - any woman - trusts you enough to tell you her story, believe her, no matter if it happened 5 hours ago or 50 years.

The good girls

Such a good book. Very relatable for a coming of age reader with romance and mystery. Would read the first book though to get the full affect.

The story line

It was confusing which part was which and who was who, it would have been better is at the beginning they said who was the narrator

Unexpected

Don't get me wrong, I had suspicions about the ending and while I wasn't far off I also didn't get it right on the head. This book did get a bit deep and covered things that could be too sensitive for some, but it was very well written and will be a reread for me.

Needed Better Narration - too confusing

It would have been much better if four separate voices read the parts of the main characters instead of having one voice for all four of them and only the varying voices when they were doing the interviews. It was very confusing at times to figure out/remember which of the main characters was speaking.

Dreadful pacing

THE GOOD GIRLS is an interesting story with complex characters and beautiful word building. Sounds like a 4-5 star review, right? Not so much.

Reading THE GOOD GIRLS, despite all its positive attributes, felt like a chore. I kept picking up, then putting down the book. Claire Eliza Bartlett’s words are clever and engaging, the pacing however was dreadful.

While some of characters THE GOOD GIRLS were tropes, they also had a complexity and depth that made me want to root for them. I bet I’d enjoy a movie or miniseries version better, with good acting and pacing.