Lockhart, E. (2014). We were
liars. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
The Sinclair family is perfect…on
the outside. Cadence, Cady, tells us her family’s story from the time she is 15
years old to now when she is 18 years old.
She spends the summer on an island with her extended family with her 2
cousins: Mirren, Johnny and 1
outsider: Gat. The four are inseparable…until the accident. Cady can’t remember exactly what happened,
but it changes her
life. She now is sick, has migraines, and misses so much school that she has to repeat her junior year. The summer of her 16th year she goes with her dad to Europe and her mom goes back to Beechwood Island. Cady misses her normal summers so her 17th year she forces her parents to let her return to the island and during that time she discovers what happened the 15th summer.
Cady tells the story mostly through flashback as she relives her past and tells us about her background and what happened during the summer of her 15th year. For the most part Lockhart has written a realistic novel about Cady. There are some parts that make a reader question what is going on and even at the end about what really happened in the current summer, were there ghosts or hallucinations? Why was the house so messy? How did people explain what happened that summer? I left the book with lots of unanswered questions, but I guess that’s expected when you have a book with such twists and turns. I could see 8th grade and up reading this book.
life. She now is sick, has migraines, and misses so much school that she has to repeat her junior year. The summer of her 16th year she goes with her dad to Europe and her mom goes back to Beechwood Island. Cady misses her normal summers so her 17th year she forces her parents to let her return to the island and during that time she discovers what happened the 15th summer.
Cady tells the story mostly through flashback as she relives her past and tells us about her background and what happened during the summer of her 15th year. For the most part Lockhart has written a realistic novel about Cady. There are some parts that make a reader question what is going on and even at the end about what really happened in the current summer, were there ghosts or hallucinations? Why was the house so messy? How did people explain what happened that summer? I left the book with lots of unanswered questions, but I guess that’s expected when you have a book with such twists and turns. I could see 8th grade and up reading this book.
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