In the ARC, the publisher has strongly advised NOT to share spoilers, but it’s my duty as a reviewer to provide trigger warnings. This is annoying writing, but mercifully there’s not too much of it. Lockharts Family of Liars is a strange prequel to her New York Times bestseller We Were Liars. That doesn’t literally happen it’s just a fancy, figurative way of saying, “He punched me in the feels.” Also, bleeding is mentioned a few times when I think it’s actually tears and emotions – not actual blood. Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. Lockhart’s popular YA books: Julie Plec ’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television has acquired the rights to We Were Liars, Family of Liars and. Remember how a certain debut YA novel was so full of metaphors (rather than just telling it how it is), that it drove me batty? There is a little of that here, but thankfully nowhere near as much. Because of the liar/unreliable factor, this novel’s bound to be likened to Justine Larbalestier’s Liar, but Liar is much better. Usually I’m okay with that – IF I like the narrator, but here I do not. It’s good, but not the best thing ever.Ĭadence Sinclair Eastman is an unreliable narrator. I probably would’ve appreciated the book more if the publisher and the YA community had NOT overhyped it. And when we discover it’s NOT the best thing ever, we’re disappointed. When you overhype something, people expect it to be the best thing ever. Random House Delacorte (US & CA: 13th May 2014)īuy (US) Buy (UK) Buy (CA) Buy (Worldwide)
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