We Were Liars
By: E. Lockhart
Release Date: May 13th 2014
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Source: Electronic ARC
An electronic copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
My Rating:
Summary:
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.
My Thoughts:
There has been a lot of pre-publication buzz about this book which did make me the slightest bit nervous to start reading it. Very early on I realized that fear was needless because this book was incredibly engrossing and addictive. Once I started reading I didn’t want to stop.
Since this book relies heavily on mystery and suspense this will be a vague review. This is the type of book that is best entered into with little knowledge of what is to come. Just know that when you start reading you’ll be whisked away and you’ll most likely not want to stop.
As to why I rated this four stars rather than five was due to the fact that I’d not want to reread this book. Also, parts felt the slightest bit predicable…I think this was only due to knowing some of the pre-buzz I’d heard (obviously accidental but hard to miss at times).
Final Thoughts:
I’d highly recommend We Were Liars for those that would love an evening escape and to venture into a world vividly created.
I will try to stay away from any reviews that might reveal more than yours or Xpresso Jenni’s did, since both were great at describing feelings for the book but totally spoiler free!
I just had to barely speak of the book. It would ruin it to know anything other than it was good 🙂
Great review sweetie 🙂 I’m glad you liked this book. <3 But sorry you didn't fully love it. I'm not sure yet if I want to read it. Hmm. Thank you for sharing. <3
It was a very engrossing and addicting read. If you do decide to read it I look forward to reading your review.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Heard lots of things about this one, I think I’ll pick this up sometime soon 🙂
yay! I hope you love it when you read 🙂
I’m glad the hype didn’t lie. I’ve definitely got this on my watchlist and your (thankfully) vague and non-spoilery review has only further peaked my interest 😉
Glad my incredibly short, vague review helped! 🙂
I really enjoyed this book. My review is so painfully vague!!!
I honestly did not pick up on any of the hype. I only picked up on it after I had read. Apparently this novel was one of the most anticipated releases of this year!
Thanks for sharing, and have a great week! 🙂
Alex @ The Shelf Diaries
To remain spoiler free the review HAS to be vague for this book. The beauty and joy is in the experience. I really enjoyed it and so glad you did too!
I can’t wait to read this. Almost everyone I know who has, can’t stop talking about how amazing it is. Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy it Kate! I can’t wait to read your review 🙂
I finally found you – hooray! Great blog, Kristen!
I’m glad you enjoyed this and I’m sorry that some of it got spoiled for you. I was lucky not to know much before I read it and I LOVED this book 🙂
Mands @ The Bookish Manicurist
I had no clue my google account wasn’t linking correctly! thank you so much for letting me know…I’ll have to fix that ASAP.
I loved this one too! It was wonderfully done–so excited you loved it too. Did you do a manicure for it? I must head over to your site and see.
I actually haven’t heard anything about this one, but I’m definitely intrigued!
My library actually just ordered this, so I’m excited to read it. There has been a HUGE amount of buzz for it. Trying not to spoil myself!
Hi! I really liked this book too. Although I found it a little boring and kind of hard to get into at the start… But at a certain point I was hooked and could’nt put it down!
Here’s our review of it:
http://bymarlida.blogspot.no/2015/05/we-were-liars-book.html