Title: We Were Liars
Series: We Were Liars #1
Author: E Lockhart
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 New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
I read this book as part of a readalong with Tandem Collective UK and Hot Key Books YA.
Here we have The Sinclair’s, a very well to do, keeping up appearances family from old money and their summers on their private island, Beechwood.
Cady and her cousins are collectively known as The Liars. This book centres around Cady and what The Liars get up to.
Firstly, wow that writing style, coupled with the powerful, tragic, beautiful storyline, it was a hit for me! I knew something was up….but I didn’t know what. Just couldn’t put my finger on it. And then with those last few chapters, it all fell into place in my brain!
I’ve never read a book like this and I really, really enjoyed it!
The explanations of the island and the map in the book were so good, I could see it in my minds eye which made me feel like I was there! I was so invested in the characters, The Liars, I loved them all.
That ending. Talk about emosh! I was so invested that I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye!
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Hi! I read We Were Liars a couple years ago and liked it very much. Glad you enjoyed it too!
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it too!
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Wow! I love how moving this story must be. Sounds very compelling. I’ll have to mark it down. Excellent review!
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Totally recommend it!
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I’ve seen some good reviews for this one, Caro. Sounds like a hard one to put down.
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It was different to what I normally read and I loved it!
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Wonderful review Caro. I’ve been trying to get to this book since it came out in 2014!🤦♀️🤦♀️Thank you for the reminder!🤗☕📚💜
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Enjoy Susan! I really enjoyed it!
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Great review, Caro! It sounds great.
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It was fab!
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ahhhh I really enjoyed this one too, have you read the sequel???? I haven’t yet but I’ve been meaning to!!! loved your review!!!
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ahhhhhhhh i’m so so glad you enjoyed the book so much!! IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES AND YESSS THE WRITING STYLE IS SOOOO BEAUTIFULLL 😭😭 amazing review!!
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Thanks! I know this will be on my reread pile!
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