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Welcome to Dayle Loves This, wherein I recommend books, TV, and movies (and maybe other things) that rocked my world.
If they don’t rock your world, that’s okay. We all have reader/watcher cookies as well as triggers. If you have questions, ask. And please make your own suggestions, and discuss!
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The tag line for this book is: If anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
It’s brilliant because it grabs your attention. It also highlights why this is a tough book to talk about—give away too much, and it won’t have nearly as much impact.
Cadence (Cady) Sinclair knows she lives a life of privilege. Her mother is one of three daughters of a very wealthy man, so wealthy that they summer on their own private island off Martha’s Vineyard. Despite the family’s wealth, Cady’s pretty normal (something I appreciated, because it made her relatable), and the island summers are a glorious getaway with her cousins and, eventually, her aunt’s boyfriend’s nephew, Gat.
At the end of the summer Cady’s fifteen, she has an accident she can’t remember. Suffering from migraines, she takes a summer away, but insists on returning when she’s seventeen. Everything is normal, except for her pain and memory loss.
Because it had been a few years since I first read We Were Liars, I grabbed an ebook from the library (since I was out of town—I bought a copy to study). Turned out, knowing what happens made it a completely different reading experience, which was fascinating. I was gripped in an entirely different way.
Dayle Loves This, and hopes you read it so we can discuss it.