“We Were Liars”

By: Sarah Barron

Books have a way with triggering inner emotions. It is normal to expect the best outcome in a book because of the fairytale stories. The normal cliché the boy and girl fall in love and stay together forever. No one expects the end of a book to be upsetting because of the horrible things that may lead up to the ending. Every story has two sides to it. Before there was happily ever after there were the grim stories.

“We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart is about a teenage girl named Cadence. Cadence along with her family and friends met at an island every summer. It is at this island that a true tragedy occurs and Cadence loses most of her memories including the truth behind what happened. She is forced to fight her way through remembering what happened and she is the only one capable of finding it.

Lockhart continuously has Cadence telling her own made up fairytale stories throughout the book. The fairytales that she mentions always somehow relate back to the actual story that the book is telling. Towards the ending Cadence mentions that not all fairytales end happily. “We Were Liars” was very enjoyable and intense from the beginning to the ending. I could read the book a thousand times over. It triggers several emotions in many different ways unlike some other books. “We Were Liars” simply took my breath away.

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romance and suspense. It is heavy with the talk of love and will have anyone on their toes guessing the whole way through. To anyone who is expecting a normal cliché fairytale or just a love book this book may not be the one. Remember not all fairytales have a happy ending.