Author:
E. Lockhart
Year: 2014
Genre: Y/A. Romance. Fiction
Rate:
3.5 stars.
“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.”
What is great about this story?
The writing for start.- The author use
an amazing, original, kind of poetic style, with beautiful prose and a easy and
fresh way to tell the story.
The plot is also good. The descriptions
are so vivid, so effective that makes you feel inside the island with the
characters.
Also is an enigmatic and twisting story,
a little predictable at the end but still shocking. Actually my heart cries
every time that I remember the end.
And there is more. Like the intrigue and
the anxiety to know what happened to Cady the main character. Basically the
entire book is about to help Cady with her memory, to find the true.
Furthermore, the story shows problems of
a rich family and all this intrigue that we believe exist around money.
Then we have the liars, the group of
friends forced by their families to fake and keep the appearances of a normal
life. That shattered my heart…Every teen need the opportunity to be themselves
at least once in their life.
However and even when the plot is good
and I insisted the writing was beautiful unusual, I have some trouble with a
couple things.
First there are some inconsistences with
the back and for between flashbacks and the present. It was good to have those
flashbacks but the transition could be clearer special with this particularly
writing.
But I think my biggest problem was the
main character Cadance. I got to understand her conflict, her needs for knowing
what happened to her years ago. However
I never felt a connection with her. In fact, she was so disconnected with the
story that her relationship with her cousins and the rest of the characters felt
unreal. The romance with Gat felt fake,
I didn’t believe in it. And it is so sad because the author could develop a
great love story, one for the reader to crave. And for me wasn’t nothing like
that.
Still, there is something about this
book that keeps me reading but I don’t know if I would read it again.
Best
phrases.
“I will prove myself strong; when they
think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave, when they
think I am weak.”
“Read them and you hear the echoes of
one story inside another then echoes of another inside that. So may have the
same premise: once upon a time, there were three.
The island is ours here, in some way we
are younger forever.”
“Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and
confusing
That is what the children know
And they know that the stories about
their family are both true and untrue there are endless variations and people
will continue to tell them.”
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