We have to be perfect. We are not weird. We are Sinclairs. We Were Liars is an amazing young-adult novel by E. Lockhart about the consequences of money and greed. The story focuses on a perfectly broken family, forever damaged from a terrible accident. Every year, the Sinclair family puts on their masks and has a long summer vacation on their lovely Beechwood Island. That is until summer fifteen when everything went wrong. The main characters, the Liars, Marrin, Gat, Johnny, and Cadence have grown up together. Cadence wanted to have a life with them. She didn’t want to inherit her mother’s fortune, she didn’t want to be tortured by money and greed, she wanted a life where she was free, they all did. They were going to be better than the Sinclairs before them. So they were going to burn the island to the ground. They were going to burn their Granddad’s house. They were going to burn the memories, the pain, the fortune, all of it. It was the perfect plan, but what happened? Why can’t Cadence remember anything? Where are her liars? Why won’t anyone tell her the truth?
We Were Liars is such a fantastic book. It’s written very well as Cadence’s perspective is highly interesting to read. She doesn’t know what’s real and what’s in her head and the blending of the two points of view is very engrossing. Reading about the broken family and how money has corrupted them was also really entertaining. Lockhart’s objective was to leave readers with a thousand theories about what happened to Cadence. They perfectly executed this goal as I found myself hooked, hungry for the truth. I wanted to know more about the characters and their life away from the island. I wanted to know things like why the Liars never wrote Cadence back, how she was speaking to her Liars, and what happened between her and Gat. Not to mention, the twist at the end is really surprising and leaves you with even more questions.
I highly recommend checking out this book. Cadence’s perspective can be a little confusing at times, but don’t let that deter you. The topic of this book is a really interesting one as it's so entertaining to see a rich family fall apart. The rich are supposed to have it all. The rich are supposed to be living the amazing life that we all want. But to see them fall apart, to see their sanity hang on a thin thread that could snap at any moment, is highly amusing. We all want to see the one with everything lose it all and this story gives us just that.
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