| Author | E. Lockhart |
|---|---|
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Published | 2014 |
| File Format | |
| Pages | 227 pages |
| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
We Were Liars Novel By E. Lockhart is an adult novel for adults of 2014 by E. Lockhart. The novel has been acclaimed by critics and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction for Young Adults. It was also listed as one of the 10 Best ALA Fictions for Young Adults in 2015. We Were Liars focuses on the issue of self-acceptance, family morals, and the possibly deadly consequences of one’s mistakes. It focuses on the seemingly perfect Sinclair family, who spends all their summers gathered on their private island. However, not all summers are the same: when something happens to Cadence during the summer of her fifteenth year, the four “liars” (Cadence, Johnny, Gat, and Mirren) resurface two years later for Cadence to remember the incident.
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We Were Liars Summary
We Were Liars is a mysterious young adult novel about a wealthy family who spends every summer on their private island. The story focuses on the main character, Cadence. After Cadence suffers a head injury during one of the summers, she can remember almost nothing about that trip to the island. Next summer things are very different and Cadence has to try to remember why.
We Were Liars Review
E. Lockhart’s novel, We Were Liars, is intelligent, attractive, and tremendously addictive. Every summer, the rich and seemingly perfect members of the Sinclair family gather on their private island. We Were Liars is the story of those annual meetings; In particular, what happened during a summer that the protagonist Cadence cannot remember. The prejudices, greed, and changing patriarchal favoritism between the three adult sisters contrast with the camaraderie and worldview of teenage cousins and their dear friend Gat. Lazy days of sticky lemonades on the roof and Scrabble marathon games give way to twisted suspense, true love, and good intentions that have gone terribly wrong. We Were a Liar is a story that asks to be read at once.
We Were Liars Characters
The liars
Cadence Sinclair Eastman – Sinclair’s oldest grandson and book narrator
Gatwick Matthew Patil – The nephew of Aunt Carrie’s partner Ed, who starts coming to spend the summers during Beechwood Year Eight.
Johnny Sinclair Dennis: Carrie’s oldest son, born three weeks after Cadence, Sinclair’s second oldest grandson
Mirren Sinclair Sheffield: Bess’ eldest daughter, Sinclair’s third eldest granddaughter
The Sinclairs
Harris Sinclair – The wealthy patriarch of the family he controls and enjoys watching his children fight to please him.
Tipper Sinclair – Family Matriarch, married to Harris
Penny Sinclair Eastman – Cadence’s mother and Middle Sinclair’s daughter
Carrie Sinclair Dennis – Mother of Jonathan and Will, Sinclair’s eldest daughter
Bess Sinclair Sheffield – Mother of Mirren, Liberty, Bonnie, and Taft, Sinclair’s youngest daughter
Will Sinclair Dennis – Cadence’s youngest cousin, Carrie’s son
Taft Sinclair Sheffield – Second youngest cousin, son of Bess
Bonnie Sinclair Sheffield – Liberty twin, daughter of Bess
Liberty Sinclair Sheffield – Bonnie’s twin, Bess’s daughter
About The Author Book
Biography
I write novels. My books: We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud, Fly on the Wall, The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, How to Be Bad, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. The new DC Comics hero arrives in 2020.
Visit me at www.emilylockhart.com.
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We Were Liars Quotes
The universe was good because he was in it.
Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.
It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical.
We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.
We figured if the house was gone, and the paperwork and data inside it gone, and all the objects they fought about gone, the power would be gone.
