We Were Liars

Lockhart, E. (2013). We were liars. New York: Delacorte Press. Seventeen-year-old Cadence Sinclair Eastman lives a privileged life as a member of the esteemed Sinclair family. Although she is surrounded by luxury she is miserable and sick. After her accident on the private family island in Beechwood, the summer she was 15, Cadence gets mind numbing migraines and can’t remember how she hit her head or ended up in the water alone. Two years later she returns to Beechwood to try to piece her memory back, but she doesn’t understand why no one wants to talk about the accident. The only comfort she finds is that her cousins Johnny and Mirren and her love Gat are waiting for her at Beechwood. As Cadence pieces her memories together she finds out the awful truth of that fateful night full of tears, regret, fire, and death. This mystery will captivate readers from the very beginning until the twisted unexpected end of the novel. The plot is definitely the novel’s developmental strength and will keep readers engaged and entertained.