Of course I won't reveal the twists and turns of the cunning plot, but I can say that when the secret at the heart of the book is finally revealed, it turns out to be nastier and more shocking than anything I had imagined. In 2015, We Were Liars made the American Library Association’s top ten list of Best Fiction for Young Adults. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. i do wish certain characters, dynamics and events had been fleshed out more— at times there was a little bit too much ambiguity. It’s a very flowery, metaphorical, lots-of-paragraph-breaks style of prose that’s super dreamy and a little too dramatic.

I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone. If you were a Kennedy, it doesn't matter if you look like an elephant stepped on your head when you were born. Blow after blow she lands, until tiny flakes of bone litter the bed and mingle with chipped bits of her once-beautiful goose.

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. i do think there could’ve been more to make me hate Pfeff, yes he does horrible things but i think i needed more anger from Carries side to really feel the emotions.

i think some people are gonna adore it (like me, seriously cried way too much lol), while others are just gonna roll their eyes and think it’s kinda basic.This was not quite as traumatising as its prequel, We Were Liars, for me personally, but still displayed a focus on a wide array of issues, interspersed with scenes of summer fun and how the white and wealthy live. Granddad’s mind is starting to fail, the younger cousins gossip about Cadence being a drug addict, and the cousin on the phone thinks the island is haunted. Due to the constant infighting among the adults, the Liars isolate themselves in a house on the far side of the island, and Cady and Gat continue their teenage romance away from the prying eyes of their parents. Cadence makes a tight little group with the two grandchildren her own age, Johnny and Mirren, and an outsider, Gat, who joins them every year. We got a proper look at privilege and how this family and their wealth comes from - a product of exploitation of many generations of people of colour and the disgusting reality of that.