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Ми були брехунами by E. Lockhart

437 reviews

hiraethtales's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

3.75

The book was interesting and exciting. There were a handful times I was bored but the ending blew my mind. I retread the book a couple of time just to find small hints I missed about the plot twist. It portrays racism, classism, greed for money and an overall shitty family

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

readwmichelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Blood

zsometimesreads's review against another edition

emotional sad

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Racism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

clstrifes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

Book wasn’t good. It was clear what had happened with the not so subtle hints.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

sadiemariemcg's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Racism

natgoe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Racism

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I liked the speediness of this book. The short chapters ❤️ I'm seeing reviews that don't like the fractured writing but that's what got me in the first place. Despite the muddled, neurotic over-sentimentality, the writing didn't feel off-putting or clunky for me. At points I got some Merricat/WHALITC vibes. (Was that what E. Lockhart was going for, maybe?) Sometimes, I'm in the mood for this style idk. Also, maybe it's bc I'm a metiche chismosa but I was all in reading about the lazy, worse than parasites, rich, mentally stunted daughters and all the awful manipulation they did to their own kids to get their inheritance from the racist patriarch and the eventual self-destruction by the dumbest kids alive lmao. I guessed the plot twist ! and actually had a fun time reading this almost soap opera about racist white rich democrats (😬), but the ending was a little icky tho bc none of these characters deserve pity or second chances bc they didn't grow and I don't care about them becoming a "real" family.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Racism, Vomit, Dementia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Self harm, and Death of parent

nehaslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

3.0

If I was to give it a rating half way through reading it, I would’ve given this book a solid 2.75.
This book was a very easy read (almost too easy and too childish), and the writing wasn’t amazing, but the plot was pretty great. The revelation hit me like a truck and I was so shocked. I must be pretty hormonal right now because I was sobbing for the last part.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Grief, and Classism

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Vomit, Death of parent, and Colonisation

g slur, homelessness, poaching.

rosyc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was amazing! I'm very late to the game and I wasn't so sure how I would like it since I find myself drifting away from YA, but the prose was beautiful and though there isn't a big plot, the story grabs you and it's hard to put the book down. Did not expect this to be so chilling. The repetition, though intentional, did get a little tiring toward the end but that didn't take away from my overall enjoyment of this book.

It also helps that I enjoy ghost stories like The Sixth Sense, which E. Lockhart mentions as an inspiration for this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism