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Family of Liars by E. Lockhart

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reading_abundantly's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

thoughts: didn’t hit quite as hard as WWL but HOLY FUCK was it good, fast paced and so much happened! e. lockhart made me hope for a genuinely bad person because they were also a genuinely good person and it was so crazy, truly hit the “unreliable narrator” perfectly, i almost don’t trust anything that happened in the book after finishing it, it almost feels like it was all truthful and all a lie at the same time, truly loved this book. a great prequel to WWL and still contains the “teens commit a crime together”, just not as potent and it’s harder to feel that Carrie is as much of a victim as Cady. Wow though. Wow.

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teamlauren11's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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mintedlemon's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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inkysplodge's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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

4.25

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mulhollen's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

the twist is so annoying

I didn’t just read all that for the last section to go “jk that didn’t happen”

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thesecretsapphic's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

2.0

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dramagirl2003's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

just as good as the first one in a completely different way!
age rating — 14+

thoughts while reading

p5: yeah no kidding

p15: i wondered that! i knew there was

no rosemary

in We Were Liars

p21: this family physically hurts me with all their emotional masking

p22: please don’t get addicted

p23: there is literally no pleasing harris

p25: yuhuh what did i say. 16 is way too young to have no one watching you

p50: it’s probably meant to be because of the codeine that

she sees rose

p55: carrie and cadence are kindred spirits, and not completely in a good way

p67: pfeff is totally the one she crushes on

p79: two single guys, three and a half single girls. i can almost taste the potential drama

p92: $100 BOOK VOUCHER?? heck yes!!

p151: don’t tell me

she’s hallucinating the boys too

p163: isn’t this the story about locke from The Cruel Prince?

p169: i knew something like this would happen

p175: erm not quite the twist i was expecting

p179: gosh bess is brave, i’d be too terrified to talk to my sibling like that if they had carrie’s issues in case they spiralled and offed themselves. maybe it’s because she’s the youngest so she doesn’t quite understand the seriousness of this situation beyond her own feelings. i’m not saying bess is wrong to say something, i just couldn’t do it

p196: pfeff was never gonna give you what you need, not when he either has a very low opinion of himself or just doesn’t care

p201: really REALLY not what i was expecting

p206: omg it’s agggtm all over again

p220: OH

p247: nooo not

pfeff haunting her now too!

p263:

IT WAS CARRIE WHO KILLED HIM???

p273:

it was HARRIS who moved the board!

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alicekd's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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roxanne_blythe's review against another edition

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mysterious 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

It was definitely better than We Were Liars.

Rosemary was completely unnecessary as a character. The fairytales?? Omg I hate them I hated them in the last book and I hate them in this book too. At least this one didn’t have the same “once upon a time there were three princesses.. ugh 🙄

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annamwallace66's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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