Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Title: We Were Liars

Author: E. Lockhart

Format/Edition: Signed Hardback Copy

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: May 13, 2014

Pages: 227 pages

Source: Own purchase

Synopsis:

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.

 

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

 

Read it.

And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

Review:

The ending. The ending. I wasn’t expecting that to happen. Oh god I really wasn’t.

Book Review: How to Love by Katie Cotugno *DNF*

Title: How to Love

Author: Katie Cotugno

Format/Edition: Paperback

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Published: October 1, 2013

Pages: 389 pages

Source: Own purchase

Synopsis:

Before:

Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he’s never seemed to notice that Reena even exists until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind.

 

After:

Almost three years have passed, and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena’s gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she’s finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again. Reena doesn’t want anything to do with him, though she’d be lying if she said Sawyer’s being back wasn’t stirring something in her. After everything that’s happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?

Review:

*****Warning, rant ahead and some spoilers******

You know the feeling when a new book comes out and the cover seems so appealing that you didn’t even bother to read the reviews anymore whether it was good or not? Well that’s what I felt and now I regret getting this book.