We were liars by E. Lockhart, spoiler free.
We were liars (spoiler free). Another Booktok recommendation ! I was too curious... And truth is, my curiosity is going to kill me one day. I cannot help but wanting to know, to experience, to see by myself... I feel like Booktok recommendations are truly... uneven. Some are amazing, just like Alice by Christina Henry (see my review here : ) and some are just... awful...? And unfortunately, this story falls under the latter. The story. We follow Cadence, part of the Sinclairs, a very rich (and white ) family, who goes on summer vacation every year on their private island. The four cousins, Mirren, Johnny, Gat and Cadence are known in the family as the liars. During the summer when she was fifteen, she had an accident and lost most of her memories from this time. The next year, she is forbidden to go back on the island and has to repeat a year because she got addicted to her medicine. The year after, when she is seventeen, she goes back to the island and reconnects with her cousins w