Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: May 13th 2014
Review Source: Delacorte Press | NetGalley

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

This book took me completely by surprise. This is my third draft of the review because no matter how I wrote them they seemed to all give too much away. I like to be a little more detailed but for this one, less is definitely better.

Cadence Sinclair is young, she spends her summers on her family's private island and hangs out with her cousins Johnny and Miren and their friend Gat. They make up the Liars. Something is different about this summer though. Cadence is still recovering from an accident and cannot remember much, and her family keeps reminding each other not to talk about the accident around her. What in the world happened?
That you will have to find out for yourself.

This book was absolutely beautifully written. It is like a tragic, miserably wonderful journey that literally left me speechless by the end.

 "My father put a last suitcase into the backseat of the Mercedes (he was leaving Mummy with only the Saab) and started the engine. Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my ribcage and down into a flower bed."

I mean, really? Is this beautiful tragedy or what?

I absolutely loved this book and I would ask that everyone give it a chance. You will not regret it.