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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

158 reviews

emilyellen07's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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: Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia

kjm_x's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

ekmook's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol

moonbin's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Medical trauma, Murder, Classism

delilahgknight's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book takes darker turns the more you think about the implications of the ending and I haven't stopped thinking about it so there's that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Racism

crispyaot's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

lili93's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Child death, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mental illness, Dementia

rayne_1906's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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1 hour 42 minutes - This book has had very mixed reviews and I can understand why. The writing is very confusing and jumbled, making it hard to follow the plot, what is flashback and what is currently happening, and features an incredibly unreliable narrator. However, within the context of the story, this makes sense. Not much seems to happen, but again, this is an intentional choice on the part of the author. However, this doesn't detract from the fact that certain points of this book were a little dull and repetitive. On the other hand, once the truth started to unravel, it was very engaging (although still confusing). Hence, I myself have mixed feelings about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Racism, Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, Classism

lucys_library's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

nicoleanaisx's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Found it hard to empathise and relate to any of the characters. It was only in the last part that the story came together and I could piece things together, which is why it upped a star, but I usually like being captivated all the way through and this didn’t do it for me. Glad I read it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail