Title: We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart
ISBN: 978-0-385-74126-2
No. of Pages: 240
Genre: Young Adult; Fiction
Origins: Delacorte Press for Young Readers
Release Date: 13 May 2014
Bottom Line: Outstanding story – one of my favorites all year!
“A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.”
Thoughts: We Were Liars is one of those novels that proves impossible to review. To give away even one inkling of the story, however inadvertently, would be to ruin this magnificent, tautly written, highly suspenseful novel. Suffice it to say, The lines between family secrets and family love completely blur, as Cady spends one last summer with the Liars and the rest of their extended family.
We Were Liars is the type of novel in which it is essential to start reading with no expectations and no idea what is going to happen in the story. The Sinclair family will entice and horrify as Cady discovers the family secrets, while the novel’s idyllic setting belies the serious nature of those secrets. This powerful, evocative story unfolds quickly, and Lockhart’s mesmerizimg prose weaves a spell over the reader, all but requiring that the story be read in one sitting, something with which readers will happily comply.
Wow sounds like the story of the summer! Must get on it. thanks
Definitely!
I listened to this one – only 6 days after your warning! because I could tell I was starting to see the title too many places and was building it up too much and was hoping to avoid. Oh well. I was too late. 🙁
Boo. Damn hype ruining a perfectly good book with creating impossibly high expectations.
Oh wow, this sounds so good – I have read several reviews of it now that are full of overwhelming praise without really giving anything away as to what the story is actually about! I’m so intrigued, think I’ll have to get my hands on a copy of this one.
I am so glad to hear that no one is really discussing the novel in detail. It really would ruin the surprise, and honestly, how often does a true surprise happen anymore in novels? I hope you get a chance to read this one sooner than later!
Yay – I’m so glad to see you loved this book because I’m going to be reading it next! I can’t wait!
Yay!! I hope you love it as much as I do!!
It sounds so good. I may have to go off my book diet and buy it, especially if it has so much potential to be spoiled.
This is one you really don’t want someone to spoil before you get to it. It would be worth going off your book diet for this one book, IMO!