We Were Liars

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Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Children's Choice Book Award Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly. February 19, 2015 . Retrieved June 8, 2015.Another thing I loved was how different the characters were. The whole book is from Cady’s first-person narrative, and as you can tell, that narrative is very individual only to Cadence. The writing style and the prose would have been completely different if it had been from any of the other characters’ perspectives. Imagine if Gat or Johnny or Mirren had narrated this.

We Were LiarsParents Guide This book does include strong language, as well as topics like drugs, mental illness, death, and racism. Later into the book it got became very dark.As they spend their summer on the island, and gradually come of age, they meet a group of boys that are brought over by their cousin Yardley, and her boyfriend, George. This ends up being the first sign of doom, although nobody knows it then. Also, there's ghosts and stuff, because the girls previously had another sister, the youngest, Rosemary, who drowned in the ocean about a year or so before. And nobody talks about it.