We Were Liars

"We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart, was one of the most realistic and also surprising books that I have read. It starts out as a normal story of a family who spends their summers on their private island in Massachusetts, and turns out to be a story full of love and tragedy.  As I was reading I became more and more attached to the characters. I felt more like I was living in the story instead of just reading it as one of my summer reading books. Cadence's life is so complex, with so many unanswered questions, and so much family drama at the same time. Their lives are so far from perfect, and thats what made me want to read more and more. 

    I really enjoyed how the book expressed how every family has flaws, especially the ones that are trying to be so perfect in the first place. The way that this big family secret is kept made me not suspect anything at all, but once it was revealed it took me a few minutes to wrap my head around it. I also love how Cadence slowly starts remembering things, and becomes more aware to everything that happened in her past, because the reader is figuring out things slowly too.