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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

Start date: September 9, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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May 09, 2022 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: play-book-tag, read-in-2022, massachusetts, grief, young-adult

Cadence is the oldest grandchild in a rich family. All of the family spends each summer on a private island off of Cape Cod. Cadence spends most of her time with her cousins Johnny and Mirren along with Gat who is the nephew of one of her aunts boyfriends. Some sort of accident happens during her fifteenth summer on the island which leaves Cadence with debilitating headaches and amnesia. Most of the book involves cadence figuring out what happened. I figured out most of what happened early in th ...more

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Mar 19, 2015 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, ya, still-owned

I had not expected this book to be as great as it was, but I was so impressed by it. The atmosphere which is created throughout, both because of the voice, the banter and discussion between the characters and the short sentences and rapid-fire paragraphs was exceptional. There was a chill across the whole story, and the ending - the twist - was so completely unexpected that I felt a physical jolt when I read it. I wish I could give it 4.5 stars as the only tiny thing that let it down was the ver ...more

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Jan 30, 2022 Jenn rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, 2022-finished

Super quick and easy read.

The best part was the huge twist at the end that I didn't see coming. ...more

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Feb 11, 2020 Kimberly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Well crafted story

This is the story of a dysfunctional family. I didn’t predict the ending at all. I enjoyed the story overall but the ending left me sad and unsatisfied. I’m just not sure what to think of it.

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Jan 15, 2015 Logan rated it liked it

Shelves: contemporary, young-adult, borrowed-ebook, borrowed-library, book-club, 2015-books-read

For such a talented writer, I wish E. Lockhart hadn't wasted it on a tired old plot twist. I was really enjoying the story of Cady and her missing memories, up until Part 5. Twists are risky, and when they don't work for some readers they REALLY don't work. I hated the ending. That said, the writing is beautiful and I liked having to use my brain and piece things together myself instead of having it all spoon fed to me. I can see some of the complaints about it being boring (do we really need de ...more

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