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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

136 reviews

delilahgknight's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book takes darker turns the more you think about the implications of the ending and I haven't stopped thinking about it so there's that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, and Racism

crispyaot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lili93's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mental illness, and Dementia

rayne_1906's review against another edition

mysterious 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

3.0

1 hour 42 minutes - This book has had very mixed reviews and I can understand why. The writing is very confusing and jumbled, making it hard to follow the plot, what is flashback and what is currently happening, and features an incredibly unreliable narrator. However, within the context of the story, this makes sense. Not much seems to happen, but again, this is an intentional choice on the part of the author. However, this doesn't detract from the fact that certain points of this book were a little dull and repetitive. On the other hand, once the truth started to unravel, it was very engaging (although still confusing). Hence, I myself have mixed feelings about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, and Classism

lucys_library's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

nicoleanaisx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Found it hard to empathise and relate to any of the characters. It was only in the last part that the story came together and I could piece things together, which is why it upped a star, but I usually like being captivated all the way through and this didn’t do it for me. Glad I read it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

noclermi's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

Ok so, most of the book was  paced, poorly written, and boring. The main character - Cadence Sinclair and her family - The Sinclair's, are such a basic white family and me, being of color - Indian specifically, did not enjoy the grandfather's personality. In fact I completely hated him. 
"Don't take no for an answer." One if his mottos that he taught his grandchildren, consent is important and he advises children to not care about it. Wow.
Another bit I absolutely hated was the sisters, so toxic. The entire family is toxic.

Ok but listen, the last seven chapters were actually good. I liked it. The plot twist was good, I guess but it took me 81 chapters to get there and not everyone is as patient as I am so, I really don't recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Racism

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, and Toxic relationship

emmichen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5

i liked the writing of the book because it was very poetic at first, but after a while it got kind of confusing and i forgot what happened when i stopped reading. my biggest problem with this book was that the characters weren’t likeable to me, because i didn’t really get to know know them. the author described their personalities a lot, but failed to truly show them through their actions. also, i didn’t really like the main character.. i thought it was really interesting how she gave away all her stuff, but lockhart didn’t get into depth enough of why she was doing it (a little, but not enough). the aunts were always fighting, but there was no internal conflict, no explanation of their feelings. it was all out of cady’s perspective and she failed to understand anyone else’s emotions but her own. 
due to all of this, the ending was not really meaningful. it was obviously shocking and sad, but it seemed very shallow because of the way i perceived the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Drug use

haleyscomet_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria