We Were Liars

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 National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

My Thoughts

The main character is Cadence Sinclair Eastman. I do not care for Cadence, to me she is a whiny spoiled brat. Throughout the book she is dealing with headaches that make it hard for her to remember what happened to her. There was not much of a plot to this story. Cadence is a part of a group called the liars. The liars include her cousin Mirren, Johnny, and Cadence love interest, Gat. Cadence and Gat are out in the open about their love. However their romance is not welcomed due to Gat being poor and not white. Every summer the liars and their family meet up at their island, where each family has their own house. I do not really know why they call themselves the liars. The liars do not really do much but just sit around and talk about nothing of importance. The liars are not close with one another which is strange since a couple of them are related and they spend every summer together. The book was an easy read and did not seem that long. I liked that the book was a mystery. My favorite part was the end. I would personally not read this book again but it was an okay read.