Book review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
Book description from Goodreads:

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.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

Goodreads Link

My review:

***DNF***

This is quite a hard review to write, because my opinions are completely different compared to majority of the readers.

So I heard about this book. I think everybody heard about this book. My friend emailed me the other day squealing with excitement saying this book was the bomb! It had all the emotions and beautiful writing, and so trusting her words, I dived straight into the book.

It wasn't her fault. A lot of those reviews on GR were all 5 stars as well.

I guess this is a book that isn't just for me. 

I had tons of issues with this book. And I feel bad about it because I should've felt like the rest and enjoyed it. But I didn't. 

First of all, it was boring. Dear god, I tried to keep going and leafed through the pages, but I ended skimmed through most of the paragraphs. In the end, I skipped right to the ending to find out this terrible secret or whatever. 

Cady wasn't my favourite heroine. To me, she was just. . . messed up, y'know? I think the author portrayed it well, about the minds of rich kids and also illustrate dysfunctional childhood. I should've sympathized with her, but I didn't. She seemed annoying to me, petty and I just. . . couldn't care less. 

And the writing! Maybe this is just me but I couldn't stand the writing. The metaphors were driving me crazy and it wasn't like those metaphors that Tahereh Mafi used in her books. This was much worse. The sentences were very disjointed, tons of commas and odd phrases here and there and repetitions. 

The storyline was also meh. 

By all means, read this book. This is merely an opinion of mine. I didn't enjoy it, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't. Many people loved it so judge for yourselves.