Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

185 reviews

rosyc's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was amazing! I'm very late to the game and I wasn't so sure how I would like it since I find myself drifting away from YA, but the prose was beautiful and though there isn't a big plot, the story grabs you and it's hard to put the book down. Did not expect this to be so chilling. The repetition, though intentional, did get a little tiring toward the end but that didn't take away from my overall enjoyment of this book.

It also helps that I enjoy ghost stories like The Sixth Sense, which E. Lockhart mentions as an inspiration for this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

chloe_23's review against another edition

4.0

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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After the plot, the book was really good, but before, it was quite annoying. Though Cady was a little tiresome throughout the first 3/4 of the novel, it was enjoyable. I read the last 100 pages in one sitting, which is very unusual for me. The plot was interesting, something I didn't expect. 

Mirren and Johnny were such good characters, I honestly didn't think they were ghosts the whole time. I guess the way Cady worded every sentence made me think they were still alive the whole time. I actually thought that Cady was injured in the water accident that "occurred".

I finally figured out at the end why they were called "The Liars", and it was fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

naysia_reads's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

bookishlittleme's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The aesthetic and writing style of the novel are quite fitting and hauntingly beautiful. I also thought the concept of lying was really interesting because now having finished the book I''m left unsure of several narrative details. I know they were liars but which were the lies?! The reason I haven't rated this book higher is because the characters aren't lovable. The adults are all the yucky parts of American capitalism, elitism, privilege etc. (I'm aware that's the point). And the children don't give us anything to root for. The main romance in the novel

, between Cadence(Cady) and Gat,

comes too quickly and dwindles for the rest of the book. It becomes an awkward after thought rather than a place for romantic tension to build. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Vomit, Alcohol

molly_rose's review against another edition

2.5

emotional mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

c_e_w's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism

niyawright_'s review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

raeerdna's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I was expecting so much from this book and maybe that was my biggest mistake. I heard it has a big twist and maybe because of that I could tell the ending from page 65, so that pretty much ruined the rest of the book for me but I tried to enjoy it as must as I could and just pretend like I didn't know what would happen. I liked the writing but sometimes felt like it was boring or repetitive.
Anyways, I found myself in this book a lot, again.. so it was nice to see my thoughts written, even tho it felt gut wrenching.
Another good story of why we shouldn't play God.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death

isobe_lw's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Good plot twist, but was slow, boring and repetitive throughout. Struggled to get through it and was underwhelmed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

emmaeger's review against another edition

1.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail