We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

If You Like: Teen books, romance, suspense

Similar to: Gossip Girl, M. Night Shymalan movies

Ages: 13-30

We Were Liars starts off telling us about a 17 year old girl named Cadence who has terrible headaches and issues with her memory ever since she was 15 and "the accident", that she can't remember, happened. Her family is rich, thanks to a rich grandfather, and every summer Cadence and her aunts and cousins travel to the island where the rich grandfather lives and owns many houses for them to stay in.  The liars are Cadence's cousin, Johnny, her cousin, Mirren, and her aunt's boyfriend's nephew, Gat.  Cadence has loved Gat ever since he started coming to the island every summer.  Every summer they get together and have their adventures on the island.  That is until Summer 15, when Cadence has her accident, and her mother forces her to go to Europe with her father for her sixteenth summer.  When she finally convinces her mother to let her go back to the island for her seventeenth summer, nothing is as it was.  There is a new main house where her grandfather lives, and all of the decorations are different. None of the liars will go to the main house for dinner like they used to, and Cadence is frequently too sick to leave her house.  This is the summer where Cadence discovers what really happened during her "accident"...

I had read about 2/3 of this book before it finally got took off for me, and then it took off, past the moon, past the planets, and out of this solar system.  In fact, this book was so shocking and upsetting to me that I found myself crying in my car as I was listening to this on audio book (the reader was fantastic by the way!).  I would consider this one of the saddest and most frustrating books I have ever read, but when I finished it, I knew that it was a work of art.  I would definitely recommend this  book.  It is such a quick read, and I urge your to press through the boring stuff to get to the good stuff. You will not be disappointed.