When I picked up We Were Liars I had no idea what to
expect, and that is by far the best way to approach this book! How spoiler free
can a review be? Let’s find out!
We Were Liars follows the summers a well known, well off family
spend on their private little island, surrounded by lush green lawns, beaches,
picnics packed by the help and nights that seem endless. Torn by their parents
relationships with each other and their standing in society, the teens want something
more, something different, they want to make a stand and be more than their parents ever could be.
One summer they put the wheels in motion.
It’s your not so typical coming
of age tale with a twist. At times it’s light and fluffy and unbearable teen
angsty, but more often than not it is dark and painful, taking me back to my
own teenage years, and probably yours too, where we struggled to make our mark
on the world and decide just who we wanted to be.
The novel itself is beautifully
written, Lockhart does an amazing job of capturing the sounds of everything in
a truly evocative way. She seems to get
teenagers better than most teen dramas I’ve read. She also seems to get the adults too. It was an
interesting play on the stereotypes when the adults acted more like the teens
and the teens appeared to be the more knowledgeable grown ups. That, I really
liked.
From the start you get the
feeling there is something very myserious
about this book, something’s not quite right, and as our main character Cadence
tries to recover lost memories from two summers ago, the revolution, the accident
and the big secret all finally come to light in an unexpected ending (note, don’t
do what I did and finish this book in public!).
Ask me how it ends and I will
lie.
Have you read We
Were Liars? Don’t tell me,
lie to me in the comments below!
Until next time,
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