Reviews tagging 'Death'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

697 reviews

medini_l's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Animal death, Classism, and Death

kotletka_polina's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I reread it for the prequel. 
I read this book back in 2016 and was confused to see this book blew up on TikTok in 2022?? 
Idk a lot of people have strong feelings about this book, I remember reading it for the first time and I was flabbergasted: the plot twist, the writing style. But I was like 12?? It’s a pretty disturbing and sad book but it’s y/a so idk why people expect it to be great. 
Personally I didn’t quite get the whole point when I read it for the first time, I didn’t understand the ending and overall was pretty much confused for the most part, but reading it now I cried. It’s not the best book I’ve ever read but it’s decent quick read the plays with your head. Nice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Child death, Death, and Medical trauma

sycamore22's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Holy shit. Truly felt like I was just as confused as Cadence about everything until the mystery unfolded. Binged the entire audiobook in one sitting. This is a riveting, emotional story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Alcoholism

Minor: Dementia, Racism, and Animal death

A grandmother dies, some family dogs die, and

some young people die

. The grandfather gets dementia. Parents drink to cope with loss of the grandmother (and other family matters). The grandfather with dementia commits several racist microaggressions towards Gat.

rene_reads02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Plot twist of the century. I really didn’t see it coming a hundred miles away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Child death, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Racism

angeldevoursliterature's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 Woah. That was an unexpected twist. I noticed the pacing of the first 3/4 of the story was slow... abt midway I was always like 'when will there be a sudden turn of events or smth' :|
Some parts were kinda tedious but I still managed to read through them. It was a good book though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Cursing

darkwood's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

stripy_gloves's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Really short chapter 87 for only a  225 page book. It was badly written but had a good plot twist at the end 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Dysphoria, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

revremishores's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Death

missgrangerr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

nagaakil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Dementia, Racism, and Self harm