We Were Liars : Book Review

Book: We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhard

Synopsis: 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.

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WARNING: READ THE BOOK FIRST it's better going into it knowing nothing, THE COME BACK.

We Were Liars was a phenomenal read. It's a book of discovery, a book of mystery and a book of learning the truth. In this novel the main character, Cadence, discovers that everything has consequences and not everything  that seems to be normal actually is.

In this novel we were introduced to many characters, the main four, The Liars, are Mirren, Gat, Johnny and Cadence. Out of these four characters, Cadence was my favourite. This is because in the novel we start to understand and feel for Cadence. It also helps that she is whom is telling the story.

Cadence starts off as a really laid-low, well off girl. But as the novel progresses we find out that this is not all it's made up to be. Cadence goes from being happy and healthy, to a progressively deteriorating health. 

You begin to feel bad to Cadence as her family leaves her out of the loop, and everything she has to go through. I can say, I did get pretty angry at her mom more than a few times. 

We Were Liars  kept me guessing through the entire novel, as I tried to help Cadence discover the truth behind everything.

The writing style was one I particularly enjoy quite a bit, I'm not 100% sure what it's called, but for now I'll call it perfection. 

This book left me in an emotional state of unknown. There’s not even a Scrabble word for how I’m feeling right now… It left me wanting more. This has to be one of my all-time favourite novels I have read so far.

I give it 5/5, in my eyes it was a perfect novel.