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To me a lot of this book felt like filler, ESPECIALLY the entire plot with Rosemary, the dead little sister. OMG, I swear I reread the same scene with Rosemary the ghost 100 times. It goes like this:
Carrie: “Rosemary, why and how are you haunting me?”
Rosemary: “I don’t know.”
Carrie: “Okay.”
Rosemary: “Want to make bracelets and snuggle?”
Carrie: “I’d rather be hanging out with my boyfriend rather than my dead little sister, but I feel guilty, so sure.”
Imagine this, but painfully dragged over two pages and on about ten different occasions. UUGGHHH!
And why is nobody mentioning that you never even learn why Carrie is seeing ghosts! There is no explanation. None! I suffered through so many Rosemary scenes and I don’t have a reason as to why. That really bothered me.
Moving on, the characters were all quite one-dimensional and uninteresting. Carrie is the addict. Penny is the princess. Bess is the little sister. Pfeff is the player. You’ll learn nothing else about the characters other than what I just told you.
I did like some of the mini plot twists but the main plot twist (Carrie murdering Pfeff) was so predictable. Especially because this book follows the exact same formula as the Sequel.
I could go on and on but I’ll stop here. This book was a lazy version of We Were Liars. I won’t be recommending it to anyone.
Graphic: Addiction, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault
Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Slavery
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Homophobia
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief
Minor: Alcohol
We were liars made me cry so much and for some reason I thought family of liars was basically going to be a copy and paste of we were liars. I was so wrong. This book made me so angry with it that I wanted to toss the book across my room. For the past week, all you could hear coming from my room was, "NO" "HOW DARE YOU!!?" And a lot of screaming. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel something, but someone who isn't much of a crier.
I'm not vey good with trigger warnings, but I would say that some of the main ones are rape and death.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual harassment
Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content
Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Homophobia
In this book we follow teenage Carries adventures in Beechwood.
Way to many unnecessary charcters. For example Major was soo irrelevant for the plot.
The author though putting lgbtq charcters in this book was a good idea, but it felt very forced.
Although the vibe is similar to we were liars, I think family of liars is more complex and didn’t have the expectations for a huge plot twist.
Some parts were interesting, others completely boring.
Great book to read in the summertime on the beach.
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Homophobia
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol
Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual assault