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Family of Liars

E. Lockhart

3.69 AVERAGE

mchevy's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ellegreads's review against another edition

4.0

I’ll admit when I read, We Were Liars a few years ago I wasn’t all that impressed. Perhaps its because I wasn’t in the mood for that book when I read it, or it just wasn’t the book for me at the time. No matter what, I decided to try again by reading this one as it’s the prequel and I just wanted to see if the authors writing was for me or not. Was it? Yes. I truly enjoyed this one. Now I want to go back and re-read We Were Liars because I’m so interested in the complexities of the Sinclair family! Not only that, but E. Lockhart weaves her stories almost poetically. You get sucked into her words, into the characters worlds, and it’s hard to look away from the pages. I was DRAWN to these characters and their motivations and seeing how the parents of the kids from We Were Liars (because this is THEIR book) deal with their own traumas was extremely interesting.

I won’t get into the plot because I don’t want to spoil this for potential readers, but I will say that its an excellent addition to the series and I’m really glad the author wrote it. I loo forward to doing a re-read of WWL in the near future.

One thing to note is that this book CAN stand alone. You don’t have to have read We Were Liars to fully enjoy this one. In fact, there aren’t even spoilers for it in this one. It is however the story for the parents from WWL as I mentioned above. I would characterize this as a coming-of-age story/ YA fiction as it deals with prescription drug abuse and even murder.