Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Wij leugenaars by E. Lockhart

143 reviews

james1star's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

I did enjoy reading this book more then the actual book if that makes sense and Yhh… these are my thoughts. 

I’d say I didn’t really like main plot twist and much after the fact about the dogs (all I’ll say) and the characters I couldn’t really connect with or like all that much. But with these ups and downs they are portrayed as real I guess. The writing style was good, some parts I didn’t like that much tho. 

What I did like was the pacing I feel, it’s very fast but also only details a rather short timespan. It is very readable, relatively easy to understand and I feel it would be quick to get through - I finished it in less than 2 days which is very unlike me. The plot twist I didn’t see coming and how Lockhart does this storytelling is good and you’re constantly trying to figure out what’s going on and then when you discover the truth you relate it to past events and Yhh it helps your brain ticking. 

As far as the actual plot… we follow our protagonist Cadence who is part of ‘the Liars’ alongside Mirren (her cousin), Johnny (cousin from a different aunt) and Gat (Johnny’s ‘stepdad’s’ sister’s son and her love interest) who meet on the family island every summer and just have fun kinda. Basically, an incident (her accident she calls it) occurs during summer fifteen which she doesn’t remember, she returns to the island two years later and tries to piece together what actually happened. All I’ll say cause I don’t want to spoil anything. 

Overall, I enjoyed reading this and flew through it, the twists were ehh-ish but makes you think. I didn’t really like the characters that much but Yhh… solid 4 stars ⭐️ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death, Dementia, Grief, and Alcohol

grace_cr1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Addiction, Death, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

zoeeddon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cursing, Animal death, Racism, Self harm, Death, Dementia, Grief, and Misogyny

ell_porritt's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-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

2.25

book was meh. the story was just like… honestly i don’t even know how to review this cause i can’t remember how i felt reading the start of it or anything that’s how mid it was. the end was just so confusing like why?! the ending was just like so random idk just wasn’t the best. if the book was maybe longer and the author explored the story more and made the “twist” much more exciting?! it would have been much better but it was a good quick read so there’s that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

Minor: Dementia

the_escapist's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Dementia, Classism, Animal death, and Alcohol

laura_berger's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Grief

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Animal death, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

injiofthebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, and Animal death

kylie27's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Moderate: Death, Dementia, and Violence

ellelockley's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.0

It follows the character of Cadence Sinclair Eastman and how her family has affected her as a person. It's very hard to explain in simple terms what this book is about without spoiling anything because it's kind of all over the place. The characters aren't loveable and I don't really connect with any of them, to me Cady was just a girl who didn't understand her privilege and whilst I get that just because you have money doesn't mean you have a good life, I still don't think that's an excuse for the way she acts in this book. I thought Gat was quite an interesting character but there wasn't much too him and I think that could have been explored a bit more. I sort of guessed the ending in the middle of the book which kind of made it a bit boring to read towards the end. I did quite like the style that the book was written in, as it was fast-paced for me but I could still understand what was happening. There is character development to an extent, as the reasons why characters are the way they are, are sort of explained towards the end. I don't think I'd recommend this book to anyone but if you've got it on your TBR list then I think you should give it a go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent, Classism, and Racism

It talks about physical pain as a metaphor for mental pain which can be quite graffic and triggering

mermaidstears's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

3.0

I don't think this book is something to sing home about. However, I didn't neccessiarly enjoy what was being said but how it was said. I enjoyed lockhart's descriptions in this and i found it a fast read and didn't want to put it down. Despite that i don't believe it's worth all of the but i did enjoy it nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Death, and Dementia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts