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משפחה של שקרנים by E. Lockhart, א' לוקהארט

129 reviews

nights_in_the_rain's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-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: Yes

It was a good distraction book. I read we are liars soo long ago I actually don't remember what happened in that story. <I know some people died lol.>
I liked this book it had great descriptions of what I imagine an all-American summer to be and I loved the imagery of the island and the intense descriptions of food and the parties was soo fun and I loved that. These descriptions were frequent, but it set the tone for each scene and made everything seem soo real.
Now on to the meat and potatoes.
<WILD. I completely forgot this was a ghost story. And the concept of ghosts in this story is soo strange but I do remember in We Were Liars there being tangible touchable ghosts lol. Lemme say everyone in this family is soo unlikeable. They are pretentious and frivolous and self-involved rich white people, and I like that in a way Carrie is aware of that. Idk man, she tried to seem like "aww I moved to the city and changed and made jewelry and have a job and I have a roommate and I'm woke now"...girl, get real. Coming from money like she and Yardley do leaves a mark you can't erase by trying to play poor in the city.
"dont pretend you wouldn't hurt anyone"
The bait and switch between what Carrie pretended happened and what actually happened was wild. I do feel sorry for Carrie about Pfeff being a playboy. At first, I was like girl let this man enjoy his summer he is just playing around and you should be too, but I knew something bad was gonna happen as soon as the first "please, please, please" part happened. That was a couple of "please" too many -_-. The fact Carrie wanted this man soo desperately was IMO purely a mix of hormones and all the pills she was taking because he annoyed me. His end was deserved but not really because Carrie didn't even care about helping her sister she was just insane and high. I guess there was nothing else to talk about and that's why he disappeared. I guess he knew they'd never see eye to eye...I wonder if he ever truly left the island because there is no way he is content with what happened despite it 100% being his fault. This family is soo fucked up. I wanted just ONNNE more scenes with the sisters as adults and I wanted them to duke it out a lil bit but based on who they are they never will.>

All in all, I enjoyed this book it was seamless and tight. A little mundane, and the ghosts were soo unexplained and weird. Like how are they tangible?Will I read it again? Probably not, but I will re-read we are liars to get the nuggets in here that i missed.

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abibliophilecalledbeth's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Quick, easy read but with very dark undertones

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holiday7's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Honestly, I really thought that this book was just gonna be a solid 4 star. But the last four chapters really brought up the entire story for me. And Rosemary was definitely the highlight of the entire book.

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