Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

18 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, and Toxic relationship

ellensmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I did not see the ending coming and its heartbreaking. What a sad, beautiful book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

katiea714's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

maddyrosem's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Great plot twist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, and Alcohol

emmasbookshelf27's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I liked this book and would definitely consider reading it again after learning the plot twist. <I thought the plot twist was going to be that Gat left her in the water to drown or one of the aunts drowned her to prevent her from getting the inheritance and I was surprised. I enjoy a good plot twist and it is for that reason that I liked it, although I thought the ghosts thing was weird. Like were they her imagination, but then why did they show up again after she realized> 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

lucimolri's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

mariareviews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

SPOILERS ABOUT THE END ARE INCLUDED IN THIS REVIEW

Once upon a time, there was a girl with three words after reading this book. What. The. Fuck.

and I mean this in the best way possible.

Oh God. Words can’t describe how I feel about this book. I must say, I didn’t cry, but my eyes did water quite a bit. The Sinclair’s story is definitely an interesting one and I throughly enjoyed the craft behind this book. The letters at the end, the ones written by Gat, were a beautiful addition to this story.

I’ll admit that the mixed reviews definitely stopped me —for quite a while— from reading this book, but it’s literally one of the best things I’ve read this year. At first, it was a tad bit boring, but as soon as started to understand what was happening it was as if everything suddenly clicked together.Personally, I did suspect the ending; not necessarily the burning part, but I could tell that Gat, Mirren, and Johnny were dead.

I’m definitely tempted to read all books by E. Lockhart after this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Infidelity

rinnykitty's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Since this is such a strong "go in blind book" that you shouldn't even know anything before reading the first page, time to spoiler tag my entire review.

first off, I really liked the writing style. I like quick reads and the fact there were less words per line made me finish this book in a day. It was easy for me to read, as well, even though some of the metaphors seemed more literal than figurative (I've seen other reviews wonder if Cady explaining her blood wrists were just a metaphor, and honestly, I dont know either). 
Other than that, I actually found myself relating to the main character. I'm poor as fuck, never committed a crime, and dont have migraines - but I do have memory loss due to neurological issues that wiped most of my teenage memories completely and made my mother constantly worried about me. I understood when she said she didn't want to be pitied, and then Gat said well why the fuck you saying all this shit about your migraines then. Like, dude, just because she doesn't want to be pitied doesn't mean her migraines poof! become less of her life. 
And same with the romance. Sadly I still remember some of my pathetic flings, how as a youngster you think the first love is real and forever and the best thing since Betty White. The romance was a damn mess but didn't we all make bad, cringey, makes us look back and think "oh no girl what are you doing" type relationship choices as teens. 
And.. the twist. Goddamnit I picked it up right away.. when Cady realized no one was responding to her emails. Yeah the first thought should be "they're too rich to care about their email account", but with how absent they were my mind went straight to "they're dead aren't they. Oh no you better not". And they were. Even worse, why not throw them in as ghosts and badly explain the whole entire last part of the book. And the whole reveal be a fire. All died in a fire. And became ghosts. What a twist. Yaaaawn. When it comes to rich people drama, The Cousins by Karen McManus came out on top. That's the type of twist I was looking for, not something on the same level as "it was all just a dream!" (But instead, replace dream with ghosts). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Dementia, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity and Death of parent