We Were Liars (2014) (Hot Key Books)E. Lockhart
Grade: A
Genre: young adult
Source: own
General RBC 2015: A book without a love triangle
“Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.”
Cady, Johnny, Mirren and Gat.
Gat, Mirren, Johnny and Cady. The family call them the Liars after Gat first
arrived on Beechwood Island in summer eight. Though the four lead separate
lives during the year, they are utterly inseparable during their summer months
on the family island. To the outside world, life for the Sinclair family is
privileged, effortless and enviable – that is, until summer fifteen. All Cady
knows is that she had an accident on the island and the past two years have
been spent in a haze of pain and pills, as her selective amnesia prevents her
from remembering much of what happened. Now, Cady is back on Beechwood for summer
seventeen, the first time since her accident two years ago and everything has changed
irrevocably. What is the truth? What is a lie?
