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משפחה של שקרנים by E. Lockhart, א' לוקהארט

32 reviews

safety_pin's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Outing

sm055906's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault

brookey8888's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was good. I really didn’t know what to expect when I went into this but I enjoyed it. The writing style is odd like we were  liars were, but after a while you just get used to how it’s written. I honestly really like the main character and she did nothing wrong I mean she did but I forgive her. This also made me tear up at the end. I think if you enjoyed we were liars you should pick this up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Classism

sxrxh_lenx's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Rape, Grief, Murder

tgndcy's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Rape

annathesockaholic's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

1.75

dark emotional 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

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Even though this is considered a “prequel” you need to read “we were liars” before reading this book. Similar to the other book, I wouldn't say that I  particularly enjoyed this book, but I was slightly intrigued. I also wouldn’t say this this book was as shocking of a plot twist as the first one. The author wrote in the bonus material of the first book that she would rather make a reader angry/upset and throw the book across the room than bore them, which makes so much sense. Although, her book, “genuine fraud” was quite boring. Anyways, I might read any future books in this series out of curiosity but I wouldn’t say that I particularly recommend or enjoy this book very much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use

Minor: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content

mysterymom40's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship

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franchesqua_levi's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 82%

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read we were liars at the start of this year, it was the book that got me out of my reading slump that lasted years, so of course I had to read the prequel. 

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence