The Good Girls (Perfectionists, #2)

by Sara Shepard

A sequel to The Perfectionists finds Mackenzie, Ava, Caitlin, Julie and Parker wondering if they are being framed when another person they fantasize about killing dies. By the best-selling author of the Pretty Little Liars series.

• ISBN10: 0062074520
• ISBN13: 9780062074522
• Publish Date: 2 June 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

"We're the first people whose people we want dead actually end up dead." (Caitlyn Martell-Lewis)

Oh my goodness! I'm struggling to form coherent sentences. My mind is blown!

In The Good Girls, there are five POV's: Mackensie, Ava, Caitlyn, Julie and Parker. Usually, when I read books with multiple POV's the voices blend into each other and one character is focused on more than the others. However, Sara Shepard effortlessly weaves five different POV's together to form a cohesive story. Each character has an equal amount of spotlight and play an equal role in The Good Girls. The characters also have unique personalities, interests, home situations, relationships and voices. My favourite POV in The Good Girls is Julie's. I always had a feeling that there was something more to Julie.

But, what I want to talk about is the mystery aspect. HOLY HELL! MY MIND IS STILL REELING! I can't believe what I just read. I kept on trying to anticipate what would happen next. I was literally on the edge of my seat! There's so many twists and turns and the whole mystery aspect is just done so well. The Good Girls also gets points for dealing with one of my 'reading bait' topics, the human psyche.In The Perfectionists, I thought that Parker was a figment of Julie's imagination, but when Parker has a conversation with Ava in The Good Girls, I thought I was wrong. But, I never could have guessed that Julie had split personalities. I actually interested in reading this series again now that I know the outcome of it.

I really feel like I ended 2017 on good note!

[readingwithwrin]

"I mean, that's where you're going with this, aren't you? Just because we rattled off some names doesn't mean we have any control over them dying or going missing or whatever."

While I have noticed some similarities between this duology and Pretty Little Liars (I've only watched the TV Show so far) it also was separated quite a bit due to the things that the girls deal with. One of my favorite things about this story was that it started off right where the first book ended and just jumped right back into their world.

The thing I have really liked about this duology is that each girl has their own story that has made them be who they are, and that what brought them together was a group discussion in a film class that turned deadly. While there were a few little arguments between the girl's there was never a huge fight that made them stop talking to each other and that they all were for the most part in this together and just wanted to protect the people that they had mentioned. I could have done without some of the drama that was going on in the girl's life and a little bit more about how they were going to figure out who, was doing all of the murders.

I will say this though Shepard did an amazing job of keeping us in the dark about who really did it. The whole time I kept going back and forth on three other characters I thought it could have been, but boy was I wrong. I never would have guessed it was that person and that is the main reason I ended up liking this book so much. I still can't believe that ending though. While we did get a nice ending I was still wanting more due to what happened in the last chapter. Does anyone else think that they might change their minds and make this into a series instead of a duology?

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