We Were Liars

Title: We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart
Pages: 227 (hardback)
Published: May 2014 by Delacorte Press

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.

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: If you've heard about this book, then you may have been told to go into it blind which I'm just going to reiterate to you as well since that's what I did and it made me appreciate it just that much more. Subsequently, this means that this review will be quite short since I don't want to delve into too many specifics. BUT I will say why it got a 4 out of 5 stars and not a perfect score from me because I think that's fair enough.

First off, I don't know if this is how New Englanders or private island owning people talk, but oh my goodness it got pretty annoying at times. For example, before reading this book, I had never heard of the word "natter" before and I don't think I ever want to hear/read it again. It was grating having to read it over and over again and usually when the main character was being whiny about this or that. I mean, the main characters except maybe one sounded, for lack of a better word, a little snooty at times, especially when they became annoyed or cross about something.

Also, another reason why this book didn't get a perfect score was because yes it did hit me in the feels (they're still a little bruised but don't worry chocolate heals all book-caused feels) and yes it was a memorable book, but other than that it didn't wow me. I wasn't completely enthralled until the very end where, if you've read any other reviews of this book you'll know, there's a twist. The writing, however, was beautiful from beginning to end and had a lyrical feeling at certain points. I will definitely be adding some quotes from this book to my list of favorite quotes, because dang were they poetic.

Despite my 4 out of 5 rating, this was an excellent novel. If you like well-written contemporary, beachy mysteries, then this is your kind of book. And to be honest, that's my kind of book, too, which is why I will be on the hunt for more like this one for future reading adventures.
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars