Author: E. Lockhart
Series: N/A
Published: 13
May 2014 by Hot Key Books
Length: 240 pages
Source: library
Summary : 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.
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.
Review: Cady is
one of the Liars, the younger end of a family that meets every summer to spend
the holiday at the summer home. At some point, she loses her memories. Two years later, she wants to find out what
happened.
I was really looking forwards to this and everyone really
enjoyed it and watching somep ople's reactions during the liveread made me
think it was going to be amazing. Sadly for me it wasn't.
I think I missed something at the start but I really don't
get why everyone loves this. It's slow. The writing, while stripped back in
places, seems boring too. The story doesn't seem to go very fast, and the
forbidden love aspect is not my favourite as a trope anyway and this book
didn't change my mind on it.
I didn't connect or like any of the characters. They seemed
too detached from me and I didn't really care what happened to them. Cady is a
bit whiny and the rich WASP background comes through and she comes off as
pretentious in places, something I'd had enough of with Leo from The Go Between
which I read at the same time.
I really enjoyed Gat's comments on race and racism, being
Indian and surrounded by white people. The repeated retellings of fairy tales
were also really good.
I also think that the style, full of metaphors and winding
around, is the kind of thing that could be praised in a literary sense. It just
wasn't my kind of thing.
The ending is good, I suppose. It didn't seem like a huge
thing to me though, and when it was revealed, I just shrugged and read on. I
think it's because I disconnected with the whole story so I didn't really care.
Overall: Strength 2 tea to a book I didn’t get into at
the start which meant I didn’t enjoy the whole thing.
I completely agree with you about the characters, I felt really disconnected from Cady because I didn't feel like there was much to her. I quite liked the the way it was written, except for the extreme metaphors, but the book definitely wasn't my cup of tea! :)
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