Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

185 reviews

the_3bs's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

akrafi's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-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

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

harleyburch's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

hdoomk's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism

skpandher's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was a truly inspiring novel touching many different backgrounds. My take on the main character Cadence was truly astounding and the author was a wonderful writer. E. Lockhart managed to both enthrall and alienate you with her character's desicions. 

The characters are very human, choosing to burn down the island, but are also soft, especially when Cadence's recovery is shown.

They are very human, and relateable, something that is getting harder and harder to find in novels. I appreciated how the author wrote relationships as well, illustrating them as a two way street rather than focused on one member of them.

Overall, I was absolutely delighted with this novel and it's tantalizing plot of mystery and prejudice, sometimes slightly macabre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Toxic relationship

zohafazal's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The book was interesting and exciting. There were a handful times I was bored but the ending blew my mind. I retread the book a couple of time just to find small hints I missed about the plot twist. It portrays racism, classism, greed for money and an overall shitty family

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

zsometimesreads's review against another edition

3.75

emotional sad

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Racism, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

st6rdust's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

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i’m so BOREDDD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked the speediness of this book. The short chapters ❤️ I'm seeing reviews that don't like the fractured writing but that's what got me in the first place. Despite the muddled, neurotic over-sentimentality, the writing didn't feel off-putting or clunky for me. At points I got some Merricat/WHALITC vibes. (Was that what E. Lockhart was going for, maybe?) Sometimes, I'm in the mood for this style idk. Also, maybe it's bc I'm a metiche chismosa but I was all in reading about the lazy, worse than parasites, rich, mentally stunted daughters and all the awful manipulation they did to their own kids to get their inheritance from the racist patriarch and the eventual self-destruction by the dumbest kids alive lmao. I guessed the plot twist ! and actually had a fun time reading this almost soap opera about racist white rich democrats (😬), but the ending was a little icky tho bc none of these characters deserve pity or second chances bc they didn't grow and I don't care about them becoming a "real" family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Racism, Vomit, Dementia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Self harm, Death of parent

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Vomit, Death of parent, Colonisation

g slur, homelessness, poaching.