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The Wall Street Journal also gave a positive review, noting the crossover appeal to adults and praising Cadence as an unreliable narrator. You get sucked into her words, into the characters worlds, and it’s hard to look away from the pages. Only way to survive at that haunted summer and become a part of family mean she has to learn how to lie and how to pretend like all Sinclairs do all the time. A lot of people talk about court intrigue in fantasy books/books with monarchy systems, but if you really want the dirt then books like this work just fine.
It wasn’t the most traditional sense of mental health representation, but it still gave a very unique look at trauma rep. It’s a very flowery, metaphorical, lots-of-paragraph-breaks style of prose that’s super dreamy and a little too dramatic. The blurb on the back didn’t tell me anything about the plot and everything I knew was that “We Were Liars” had apparently won the YA Goodreads Choice Award in 2014. Blindfold me and I’d recognize the feel of his hands on me, the scent of his neck, the curve of his shoulders under my palms. Other winners include The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds, The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, and Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina; like We Were Liars, these young adult novels portray adolescents coming of age and learning about the world through their experiences of tragic events.She changed the structure of the ending shortly before the advance reader copy, based on suggestions from young adult author John Green. We Were Liars is about a privileged group of cousins (and an outsider boy who is an almost-step-cousin) who live on their wealthy and manipulative grandfather's private island off the coast of Martha's Vineyard each summer. The entire book is about a poor-little-rich-girl living with a poor-little-rich-family with the kind of ending that makes you go "WHAT THE ACTUAL KIND OF M. No hay taaanto misterio ni taaantas cosas que hacer para que narre entre la prosa y la poesía, metiendo metáforas y escenas intensas en una historia que no deja de ser un libro sobre un verano de amigos y un poco de romance. i even obsessively reblogged quotes from the book on tumblr, being all angsty and mysterious with my thirteen followers.
As they spend their summer on the island, and gradually come of age, they meet a group of boys that are brought over by their cousin Yardley, and her boyfriend, George. Rather than allowing her to go to the island for the next summer (Summer Sixteen), Cadence's mother forces her to go on a tour of Europe with her father, with whom Cadence is no longer close to after he had an affair and abandoned the family.The novel is written in five acts, though pieces of each were rearranged, particularly the middle three. I went into We Were Liars one cocky son of a biscuit eater, feeling above it all right from page one. He couldn’t smile, couldn’t lie, couldn’t be part of that beautiful family in those beautiful houses.
All parents want the best for their kids, but what's going on in We Were Liars that makes those expectations unbearable? After reading and being unimpressed by WE WERE LIARS, I thought I probably wouldn't continue with the Taft-Sinclair family and their WASP-y adventures.if you think you are just reading a book about some rich family and a girl with a faulty memory and a mysterious summer, with no tantalizingly bossy instructions about keeping the book's secrets, you might be more surprised when the reveal is revealed. He was in a baby’s yellow life vest, and was really no more than a shock of white-blond hair sticking up over it. Such as a helicopter blown by the wind tossed by the torrential rain in the wilds of Alaska felt by a little Eskimo girl during the first whispers of a glacial spring with the scent of violets and hints of lavender in the fields of Grasse. D. from Columbia University, though his is in American literature, and hers is in English literature.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. I will say this, however: We Were Liars is a haunting portrayal of a group of teenagers who have formed a sacred bond; each one striving to be free and longing for acceptance. i do think there could’ve been more to make me hate Pfeff, yes he does horrible things but i think i needed more anger from Carries side to really feel the emotions. They reject the idea of spending time at New Clairmont and instead camp out at Cuddledown, formerly the estate of Bess and her family. In some parts of the book the author tries and make the character act like she has redeeming qualifications-but then a short few pages later I just want to smash her again.As a parent, I would prefer that my daughters not read this book until they have completed high school - not because it is complicated to read, but because it has mature themes that would be best appreciated and understood when she is older.
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