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A review by elocoel
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
1.0
Back with another unpopular opinion.
I am upset.
Very much.
I kept seeing We Were Liars be recommended all the time, and honestly? I wasn't interested at first. That is until a booktuber whose taste is very similar to mine read it and gave it a five-star review. However, from the beginning to the end, I just did not enjoy it at all.
At first, it was the writing style - it felt very robotic and pretentious. The dialogue did not sound natural at all. It was cringeworthy and didn't make any sense in many scenes.
Then it was the characters. I found all of them very unlikable and cartoonish -especially the adults- and I thought none of the teenagers acted like teenagers most of the time. Sometimes they talked and acted like adults, and sometimes like preteens at most.
Then came the social issues- none of the topics they talked about felt genuine, and it was performative activism at best.
And overall, it was the plot. Since I did not care about the characters the least bit, I did not care about the plot, the mystery, or anything. The finale did not make any sense, and I do not like to use this word when talking about someone's hard work, but I really hated the ending.
Since I am not a liar, I can easily say this is just another story about the very privileged thinking their lives suck and make absolutely the worst decisions about it.
If you like unreliable narrators, simplistically clever writing, amnesia plots, and big twists, you might enjoy this book. But it for sure was not my cup of tea.
I am upset.
Very much.
I kept seeing We Were Liars be recommended all the time, and honestly? I wasn't interested at first. That is until a booktuber whose taste is very similar to mine read it and gave it a five-star review. However, from the beginning to the end, I just did not enjoy it at all.
At first, it was the writing style - it felt very robotic and pretentious. The dialogue did not sound natural at all. It was cringeworthy and didn't make any sense in many scenes.
Then it was the characters. I found all of them very unlikable and cartoonish -especially the adults- and I thought none of the teenagers acted like teenagers most of the time. Sometimes they talked and acted like adults, and sometimes like preteens at most.
Then came the social issues- none of the topics they talked about felt genuine, and it was performative activism at best.
And overall, it was the plot. Since I did not care about the characters the least bit, I did not care about the plot, the mystery, or anything. The finale did not make any sense, and I do not like to use this word when talking about someone's hard work, but I really hated the ending.
Since I am not a liar, I can easily say this is just another story about the very privileged thinking their lives suck and make absolutely the worst decisions about it.
If you like unreliable narrators, simplistically clever writing, amnesia plots, and big twists, you might enjoy this book. But it for sure was not my cup of tea.