By E. Lockhart (240 pages)
Published by Delacorte
Bookish rating: 4.25
E. Lockhart is one of the best authors out there daring to write in the young adult (YA) genre. I love how she captures the adolescent voice, imbues brilliant wit, and maintains enough distance to keep the story going and the setting atmospheric and alive.
We Were Liars is a very smart, if somewhat dark, novel. Set in Cape Cod with our heroine, Cadence, and her old-money family competing shamelessly for inheritance (and the patriarch who plays them like puppets), we get some summer romance along with Big Themes that I shall dodge to avoid spoilers. You're welcome.
There's depth here, along with a total lack of the novel turning into an Issue Book. I like droll humor with Big Themes, thank you very much. Speak (Issue: Rape) and 13 Reasons Why (Issue: Suicide)--two Issue Books that all the librarians think are so fantastic and novel and groundbreaking and well-written? Blech. Cared little for them. I want drama, wit, voice-filled characters. Like what I found in this book.
Recommended.
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