Review : We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Pages : 552
Genre : Historical Fiction
Stand Alone
My Rating : 4.5/5
About the Book :
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.
My Thoughts :
This will be a short review. This will be the review I would have wanted to read before reading the book.
It’s simple :
Read this book. Don’t read the reviews. Don’t read the comments. Just pick the book, and read it.
It’s well written and fascinating. Complex, enough to be read again.
There’s a story, drama, mystery. Teenagers, summers, an island. And that’s pretty much all you need to know.
The less you know going in, the better. So try and go in knowing nothing, so that you’ll expect nothing.
Without being completely spoiled, I went in expecting things, and while I enjoyed my experience, it made me more aware of my reading than I would have liked. I’m the only one to blame here, but if you haven’t heard much about the book yet, don’t be like me and avoid comments as much as you can!
This was a great start to my YA Contemporary Month – and a favorite this year! This is a book you pick to experience something, question your reading, and discuss as a book. Stunning and captivating.
Read it!
Booking Mama kept telling me the same thing when I saw her during BEA. I need to move it up my TBR pile!
Oh yes, you really need to; plus, the faster you get to it, the less chances you get spoiled by someone else 😉
If only every review was like yours! Unfortunately I know about the T-word at the ending (not what it is, but that there is one) and I know that when I read it I’ll be waiting and watching and over-analyzing. One day when I’ve long forgotten I’ll likely pick this one up. I’ve enjoyed her other work.
Trish, this is exactly what happened to me; I knew about the T-word and rather than experiencing the book like I would otherwise had, I was constantly expecting it and trying to see how it would happen…
If you can let yourself forget it, that’s perfect! But it was still a great reading experience.
Yup! Going in to this book blind is the way to go. Glad to hear you loved it! Did you guess the ending? It really unnerved me!
I did guess! But mostly because other reviews, even non-spoilery ones, hinted at “an ending”. I really think that, otherwise, I would not have seen it coming – or not as early as I did, anyway!
I’ve seen this one around a bunch but have somehow avoided reading too much about it. I’ll definitely be following up your advice!