Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - משפחה של שקרנים

Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

משפחה של שקרנים by E. Lockhart, א' לוקהארט

130 reviews

ekmook's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional 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

Content Warnings

laheath's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is the prequel to We Were Liars and begins with a spoiler, so definitely read We Were Liars first. Since it had been several years, I reread it prior to beginning Family of Liars and it was just as good as I remembered. This book revisits the Sinclair family from the perspective of the sisters (the moms from We Were Liars), as teenagers. More family secrets are revealed with lots of drama and mystery. We learn how some of the family dynamics developed including the relationships among the sisters and between the sisters and the parents. There's not a twist as huge as in We Were Liars, but several surprising events that made this quite the page-turner.

Content Warnings

brandisheridan's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad 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

Content Warnings

zoemain's review against another edition

1.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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

Objectively this book isn’t bad, but it pales in comparison to the sequel We Were Liars and I personally didn’t enjoy it.
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.

Content Warnings