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Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, Classism
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Dementia
Moderate: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal death, Blood, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
- Read in under 24 hrs… super quick and fast-paced with an interesting writing style.
- Motifs when explaining mental and physical pain
- The fairytales that broke up the story a bit
- The twist? At the end? …?!
- Gat - he was interesting, waaaay more interesting than Johnny or Mirren… (Someone said, “He is self-aware. Too self-aware in the pretentious way that teenagers can often be, but his character feels authentically teenaged.” And I completely agree.)
Things I didn’t:
- The characters, the ‘Liars’, felt underdeveloped, especially in their relationships with one another. I never really felt a kinship or grew to love or even like Johnny and Mirren. And, whilst I found Gat interesting, not a single part of me was invested in or believed in the YA love between Cadence and Gat—again, underdeveloped.
- I did love her descriptions of them, like Mirren being ‘sugar' and 'rain’ and Gat being “… contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.”
- Otherwise, in one page I would hate them and their attitude, and in the next, I would think they’re annoying… it was confusing.
- Everyone else? The family? The grandpa??? Hated them. All of them. Annoying, immature, and materialistic. Every. Single. One…
But I guess it doesn’t take away from the reality of the ending… Even if I don’t care for the characters, I care for that ending. Overall, glad I read it, would recommend. But, I definitely agree with the sentiment that you're better off if I tell you nothing about this book.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit
When I saw that the book has 87 chapters I was like: What
But guess who's happy now for getting short chapters to read :D
Writing style was, well, interesting. I mean sometimes it was out of place and I was confused or preferred if it wasn't written down some parts, but some of them were really cool. Especially the beginning of the book. The eerie feeling was great!
The original hand drawn things, poems, and 'how I wrote We Were Liars' were really cool. Most authors don't include this, even though I think it's good to see the progress of a story for people who might plan to write their first one themselves.
(Also kinda glad the name 'Let's do and say we didn't' was changed to 'we were liars')
Despite everything I still liked the story. The plot. What happened. It didn't turn out like I hoped for, but it was still interesting to read. And honestly I wasn't triggered by anything.
Also, thanks for the spoiler warning for the #0 book as I wanted to actually start this one and didn't know that it would spoiler the other one 😅
All parts of the book are so different. The beginning gave me eerie and kinda spooky feelings — I was totally invested.
The middle part was medium-paced and gave me standard thriller vibes.
The romance was so weird. I used to find it cute at the beginning but it turned out to be more dramatic than necessary and both their decisions weren't really great and I think only hurt their relationship more than doing good.
The ending was disappointing. I had many theories how it would go and this wasn't one. So one could say the ending wasn't predictable, which I usually love, but I wished for it to be something else actually. I thought the story is perhaps about grief and the whole gory things were metaphors for being sad inside and needing to supress it as everyone in this family does it. I mean they don't even want to talk about people that passed. And the eerie vibe at the beginning made me think that it includes perhaps a bit of horror.
I had so many theories and so many great ideas for an ending, I even thought it was a Shakespeare re-telling of King Lear. What a disappointment.
I think the explanation at the end of the book why they were called bad liars was great, but it would have been better to include the scene of origin for this in the book so that we readers don't feel confused about it the whole time while reading.
Afterword
Before anyone says that the whole book copied other books (as one can see in her sketch for the book) I would disagree, as she only got Inspiration for a few aspects and didn't copy everything. I would call it Inspiration. And inspirations are great, they help you to get a better picture of how the story is supposed to be and might even motivate you.
Her whole preparations are well organised and I very very much appreciate her for showing us them. It can help so many. Help them to start they own book one day.
27. July 2024
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Dementia, Gaslighting, Classism
Minor: Rape, Vomit, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Racism
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Blood