A Summer Mystery

Jaclyn Hough

We Were Liars
By E. Lockhart

One family: love, addiction, death. The island of wealth that covers up the problems. A wealthy and successful family. Many summers were spent on the private island that brought the kids together year after year. This group of four were soon to be known as the Liars. Soon there would be so much destruction between the Liars friendships and with the family, when the main character Cadence had suffered a brain injury. This injury takes a big affect on Cadence where she said “I used to be strong, but now I am weak” (4).  It took a lot of learning to find what had happened to her.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an unexpected ending. Throughout this book you build up an idea of what may be going on but at the end it will totally shock you. This book sucked me right in. This book hits many topics of addiction and death that many young adults may relate to. But wealth and power will try to cover up these problems. Once I started reading I could not stop because new things would start to build off each other throughout.

In the book Cadence is an interested reader. I loved that she would make stories about the king and the daughters as it would be relating to her life with her Grandfather, Mother and Aunts. They all would start with “once upon a time there was a king who had three beautiful daughters” (147) and would then go on from there.

Following the relationship between Cadence and Gat because I liked that it was the one good thing that was going for the both of them when everything around them was falling apart: “He jumps up when he sees me and wraps his arms around me. I sob into his shoulder…” (192).  

If you enjoyed the book The Great Gatsby I think this book is similar in a few ways, and you would enjoy this book also. The example of wealth and the amount of destruction that happens throughout both books is similar.  

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