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Ми були брехунами by E. Lockhart

424 reviews

warlockdorian's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

twoesplease's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful summers, old money habits, and heartbreaking loss

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Racism

kiran__'s review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

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

2.5

I expected the book to be pretty bad but it did exceed my expectations. It's not my usual genre, but for what it is I think it's okay. The ending was quite interesting but sad. I like the use of a cyclical structure with its double meaning, as well as the range of metaphors and language techniques. However, I find the characters and the storyline to be a bit one dimensional and it wasn't the most exciting books. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism and Chronic illness

Minor: Self harm

cristine's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

Just no! The writing in this novel is terrible. Up until 80% of the book nothing meaningful happens. The author’s horrendous use of metaphors to describe migraines is beyond ridiculously annoying and drawn out. The “plot twist” was pretty obvious once the forgotten event is revealed. Summary- obnoxious rich teens are bored and do something beyond stupid. Once suffers migraines and amnesia and spends her 17th summer suddenly remembering things. Bla bla bla - she’s a horrible person as are all of the adults and ps spoiler alert - the dogs die so don’t read this if it pisses you off as much as it does me when authors need to make this part of a novel. Like just stick to people if you must. My eyes are bleeding from reading this - kinda like the unnecessary, exaggerations of how many times Cady was “bleeding”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Animal death, and Grief

holiday7's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

 This book was confusing af. But I LOVED it. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Sexism

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

best enjoyed if you know absolutely nothing about it. would've given it a higher rating if the writing style wasn't so fing annoying, but all things considered, this was a good read.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Racism

ilaronicly's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, Drug use, and Murder

aidareads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

i read this in two sittings and felt like i was on crack the whole time. i kinda guessed the plot twist, but just because i knew there was one. still, i liked how the author makes use of an unreliable narrator. a solid 4 stars!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Racism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Self harm, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Animal death, Dementia, Alcohol, and Grief

viselik's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.25

I did not expect the plot twist at all and really enjoyed it, once I figured out that plot twist I enjoyed the book a lot more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Racism

emmaprobasco's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief