We Were Liars (Book Review)

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart

Kindle Edition, 240 pages

Published May 13th 2014 by Delacorte Press

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.




Review:
Things to know before you read this review/the book....

1. The main character has amnesia. So the narration is unreliable and confusing.
2. This book is pretty short. So if you are wondering whether to read this or not, it doesn't require a big investment of your time.
3. I guessed the end surprise really early on.
4. Even if you are not enjoying this, you will probably keep on reading it just because you want to know what the end surprise is.
5. Be aware the word I am going to use the most in this review is confusing.

The Characters:
The main character Cadence annoyed me. And her narration is extremely confusing. But I did feel sympathetic about her character.
The Plot/Writing:
The plot is (again) confusing. Half the time I didn't know what was going on, because it seemed to me that the character was sometimes in the present and sometimes looking back. And I sometimes had a hard time distinguishing which was which.
The writing in We Were Liars is very poetic....At points I actually felt like I was reading poetry.
I wasn't crazy about how the plot turned out. I think I was expecting something a little less like dramatic Pretty Little Liars and a little more suspenseful.

Altogether there was a lot of positive hype going around about this book. And I think that I was expecting something better.
It is pretty short, and I know a lot of people loved it.
I wish that there had been more to the plot.