Why we’re excited
Lonely after a move with small kids and a distant husband, Mallory is thrilled when the most powerful mothers in town let her in. Their evening game of trading damaging confessions is a rush, until she suspects she was chosen for a reason.
Sophie Stava's Count My Lies was chosen for the book club run by Good Morning America. This follow-up keeps the focus on social climbing and secrets, with Mallory hiding motives of her own. Readers who enjoy suburban power games and an unreliable narrator should keep it in mind for spring.
On our most-anticipated list since 22 October 2026. See all the most anticipated books →
What to know about Girls Will Be Girls
Count My Lies is the one Sophie Stava book we have reviewed, at 4 out of 5.
Readers have saved it often enough to put it at No. 14 on our list of April 2027’s most-anticipated releases.
From the publisher
From the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Count My Lies, soon to be a Hulu series starring Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley, comes a sharply addictive novel about a woman desperate to infiltrate an exclusive circle of mothers—until she realizes their magnetic ringleader has a dangerous game of her own.
Mallory Greene is drowning in her new normal: new house, new coast, young kids, and a husband who’s become increasingly distant. Which is why the Sweet Hill moms are so important.
Mallory’s heard the rumors—they’re exclusive, ruthless, and powerful enough to make or break anyone in town. So when their charismatic leader, Natalie, finally takes notice of her, Mallory is thrilled. For the first time in months, she feels seen.
Mallory soon learns that the Sweet Hill moms play a private game they call “confessions” at their evening gatherings, each woman revealing a secret the others could destroy her with. It’s intoxicating. And cruel. Mallory, with secrets of her own, must decide who she can trust and what she should reveal, including the real reason she wanted to join the Sweet Hill circle.
But as her friendships with the women deepen, Mallory begins to suspect she wasn’t invited into the circle at random. Someone wants her right where she is, and what she thought was a game is something far more deadly. Mallory will have to choose where her loyalties lie—and what she’s willing to do to prove it.
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We haven’t read Girls Will Be Girls yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
