Review: We Were Liars by E.Lockhart

I didn't expect to be writing a new post so soon, but I started reading We Were Liars and I finished it in one night. I just flew through it. I couldn't stop. It's not a long book, it has about 250 pages, but still. 

Cadence's family are the Sinclairs. They are a beautiful, distinguished, well-known and of course a rich family. They seem to be perfect. Or they are at least trying to be. Cadence Sinclair's grandfather owns a private island where the family spend their summers. So when Candence's dad leaves her and her mother, when she is fifteen, she can't wait to get to the island, where the outside world doesn't quite exist. She spends her days with her two cousins Johnny and Mirren, and Johnny's best friend Gat. They are the Liars, as they call themselves. Cadence loves it, and she even falls in love with Gat. But at the end of the summer, she goes out into the sea and has an accident, after which she has terrible headaches and has to take a lot of medication. She loses touch with her Liars and goes from doctor to doctor, trying to resolve what caused her severe head injury. Two years later, Cadence can't remember anything surrounding the accident and she can't remember most of that summer. She goes back to the island and as she reconnects with her friends, she tries to find out what happened to her.

I just loved this book so much. It was great. I found that a lot of people didn't like the style of the writing, but I honestly thought it was good, with it's short sentences.  It was sort of eerie, and sometimes gave me the chills. I feel like the writer managed to create a sort of cold atmosphere, the feeling of something bad happening, that flows through the whole book. And you want to know why. You want to see what is behind the perfect cover of the Sinclairs. I really liked the story, and I think that the ending will be so unexpected to anyone who reads it, but still I think that you can actually guess it. I know that doesn't make much sense, but I can only put it that way, without revealing and spoiling the ending.

I think that the book was really nicely conceptualized and executed. I think that it's very smart and clever and a really good book when it comes to young adult fiction. This is totally a book worth reading and I would recommend it to absolutely anyone, because it was amazing.