Title:
We were liars
Author:
E. Lockhart
Genre:
Young Adult
Pages:
227 pages
Format:
Kobo glo
Summary:
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.
Review:
We were liars is a book centered around fear, lies, love, greed, friendship and hate with jealousy.
I read the book fairly quickly seeing that it was considerably very short. I was bored at times and intrigued at the same time. This book was kind of weird, but I liked how the plot slowly revealed itself maintaining the suspense. I went in expecting a lot since it was SO over-hyped and that was what made me rate it only 3.5 stars. The writing is beautiful, no doubt about that. The fact that I couldn’t connect with the story itself is a pity, however I did connect to the characters somewhat. The ending was totally unexpected….and weird.
I enjoyed it but not quite.
Note:
This book is a Goodreads Choice 2014 Winner!
Quotes:
“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”
Rating:
BooksAndBookmarks 
Hmm, sounds a bit pretentious…
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Exactly what the title suggests
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None of the quotes really grabbed me.
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I don’t know why people love this book so much. Meh. I didn’t like any of them. But these were some better than the others..
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I tend to hate teen issue novels anyway, especially the ones where all the characters are rich and have family problems (which disqualifies the heck out of this book). I don’t know why, I just do.
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It just seems pretentious that people are this rich and yet have all these stupid problems. All fake
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Well, we all know money can’t buy happiness, so I can believe that rich people might have family problems. If I wanted rich people problems, though, I’d watch Downton Abbey.
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Haha yeah. They were happy. They were greedy. Like all that money wasn’t enough. *rolls eyes*
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Basically, the characters sucked? Maybe it would have worked better if the main characters, the teens, were a bit more down to earth.
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The teens were crazy. They did something which resulted in death. Such stupidity. Much worse.
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Yes, I will definitely (not) like this book.
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Glad you’ve been warned now. 🙂
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Thanks. 😀
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No problem ^_^
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Liked the way you’ve written your review. The title kind of made me curious, and i probably would have bought this book when i saw it in the bookstore or somewhere else. Always liked this kind of books. But after reading your review, i would thing about it twice before buying it. Oké, i think everyone has his own vision on the story, the style of writing and it shouldn’t affect your oppinion. I mean, you can give your oppinion ones you’ve read it, not before right? Well, like i said, i liked your review and i would definately think twice before buying it. But i should read it myself before i’ll give my oppinion (:
By the way, like your blog!
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Yeah many did like the book but it depends on person to person.
Oh and thanks a lot!
Happy I could help out. 🙂
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I completely agree with your thoughts. I did enjoy the book, but I think it would have been so much more enjoyable if people hadn’t created so much hype around it! I went in with expectations that it was going to be ground breaking and marvelous, and while it wasn’t bad, it didn’t live up to my expectations at all!
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Exactly! I think somewhere it lost its charm mainly because people kept raving about it and hence creating this image which was not really how the book was. And its so weird, I mean everyone seems to love it and then we start questioning our ratings and stuff. Glad to find out, that you felt the same. 🙂
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