Published: May 13, 2014
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Author: E. Lockhart
Pages: 227
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery
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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.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
There are books that are
simple to read. Books that are interpreted well, their characters are transparent and the
plot is understood in the first few pages. But the truth is that if all books were like that, the reading prosess would not be so fun.
This is not an easy book. Not that it's not terribly well written. Difficult in perhaps the characters. Those who are real, and those who are not. Or maybe the plot, whose tangle of wires blends and blurs, giving us
a "good" understanding of how the mind of Cadence works.
If we assume that something happened in summer 15 (when Caddie was 15) it becomes easier to understand. The puzzle pieces are
being put in place, and when we reach the end we get to see the whole
picture. And I'm not sure if I'm digging it.
"There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel."
For me,
the real gem of this book is, however, the critical subliminal families who
live off of appearances. Families who put pride above all, their name and the
supposed power that comes from their antiquity. This group of people who
survive at the expense of their feelings, the truth and other things.
And there are a lot of this kind of people around. Unscrupulous people who would
rather pretend do not feel than give you a vent to their feelings and be happy. We
find them everywhere.
Beachwood Island
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Cadence was born and raised in a family of this kind. She spent every
summer with her cousins on the family island. Until the year she turned
15 when something happened. Something she does not remember it but caused tremendous
trauma and made her embark on a journey of suffering and pain.
Now, some
years later, she's back on the island in an attempt to solve their problems.Will
it end up unlocking the trunk of her mind or will it continue to hide behind
the lies that her family has created around it?
I'm not sure how to rate this book, it was a good read, but I think it was very OVER-hyped and didn't live up to my expectations. However, I still really enjoyed the novel and I'd say it's worth reading.
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