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Family of Liars

E. Lockhart

3.69 AVERAGE

linastublar's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kato_lemmens's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

millievhsmith's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aoifes_bookshelf's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

lilymkara's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

this book is one of those prequels where the author clearly just loves the characters too much to let them go so she wrote this and made a lot of money. don’t get me wrong, i had a fun time reading this and getting immersed in carrie’s story, but it didn’t say much or add much to ‘we were liars.’ i wish i felt more invested in carrie and pfeff’s romance and that his death was revealed with more, idk, bravado? but it fell sort of flat. and a lot of the things it touched on - beauty standards, family obligations, sexual assault - weren’t explored as deeply as i would have liked them to be.