We Were Liars

Very often when I pick a book I don't know what the story is about, sure I know a thing or two but I leave it there. That's how I started reading We Were Liars, knowing nothing. So you can imagine how I felt when I had read only 5 pages and this was happening "He had hired moving vans already. He'd rented a house, too. My father put a last suitcase into the back seat of the Mercedes and started the engine.

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a bed of roses" I've always enjoyed the drama so with this quote the book and the story grabbed me and I couldn't put it down for the whole weekend I read it. The description was so intense and it was only the beginning, I believe it's a very brave thing for the author to do because not everyone appreciates the drama from the very beginning but for me it worked very well.

We Were Liars by E.Lockhart is the story of four cousins (the Liars) whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. 

I'd never read a book with rich people being the only characters, I wasn't interested in them. I'm usually more of a adventure/science fiction guy but this book changed that because now I know they're worth it. This book has a lot of everything: mystery, drama, love (a great love I can say because it's more real than most of the romance I've read, this love is complicated like it is in the real life) and the most important thing of the book an accident (no it's not a spoiler because it says that in the preview). 

The things I liked the most of this book are the themes it has, inheritance, power and money, for the middle society these problems are stupid but because of the way the author tells the story you can see that they go deeper than what they seem, like inheritance and how this can destroy a family. 
I really liked that each character has a background, because everybody in real life has history and we know about it but not in every book we get to know a character's, that's what I of We Were Liars every character has a reason to be there which helps the story develop in a good way. 

There haven been times in my life when I don't what's going on until something gives me a clue and I get to understand why everything's happening that way.
Because the narrator doesn't know what's happening sometimes, neither does the reader so thanks to the characters we get to see a better picture and gather piece by piece what it was that changed everything, developing the story in a way that surprises the reader and leading to an end that connects everything in a big puzzle that gives a meaning to the story.

Vocabulary:

Reel: to lose balance, swaying violently. 
Sentence: The stairwell in front of me threw sparks. I reeled back.


Crocheting: to knot a piece of fabric using a needle. 
Sentence: She is crocheting a scarf of pale blue wool.


Fussing: to show and unnecessary concern about something. 
Sentence: The aunties filled in for Gran, making slumps and fussing around Granddad.  


Inlet: a small part of a sea, river or lake.
Sentence: We paddled the two-person kayak around the bay side under Windemere to an inlet.


Sore: a painful part of the body.
Sentence: Mirren has a sore throat and body aches. 


All in all, I really liked the book because it managed to surprise me sometimes, not every book does that, and it didn't loose my attention for a second. At first I struggled with the problems that were treated with but I got to accept them and understand what the author was trying to show. It's been long since I read it and I still think about it, that must say something about it.