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“A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will leaving you dying to talk about the book with a pal or ten.”
— Parade
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“[A] haunting, sophisticated
mystery.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“Details the summers of a girl who harbors a dark secret and delivers a satisfying but shocking twist ending.”
— Entertainment Weekly
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“[A] tense, cunningly constructed novel with a surprise ending that shaters.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Clever, alluring, and wildly addictive.”
— Amazon.com
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“The ending will shock the most jaded of readers, we promise!”
— RT Book Reviews (4½ stars)
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“Lockhart has created a mystery with an ending most readers won’t
see coming…At the center of it is a
girl who learns the hardest way of all what family means, and what it
means to lose the one that really mattered to you.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“The ending
is a stunner that will haunt readers for a long time to come."
— School Library Journal (starred review)
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“Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise,
and lyrical prose, Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the roots of
which go back generations.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“A taut
psychological mystery marked by an air of uneasy disorientation…The ultimate
reveal is shocking both for its tragedy and for the
how-could-I-have-not-suspected-that? feeling it leaves us with.”
— Horn Book (starred review)
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“A devastating tale of greed and secrets...Riveting, brutal, and beautifully told.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A modern, sophisticated novel.”
— BookBub.com, 1 of 9 Books That Are So Much More Than the Next Gone Girl
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“Reader Meyers does an excellent job with the main
character, Cadence, whose dialogue requires the full range of emotions.”
— Publishers Weekly (audio review)
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“Ariadne Meyers performs here and does an excellent job of portraying the
troubled teen. Listeners will definitely be able to absorb the essence
of Cadence’s mental anguish as well as the emotions of each of the
various characters in this multigenerational family drama.”
— School Library Journal (audio review)
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“Perception
often is not reality—and it certainly is not in We Were Liars…pitch perfect in both plotting and character development.”
— Book Reporter
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“Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.”
— John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars