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Family of Liars by E. Lockhart

11 reviews

sami_kei's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

nagaakil's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Addiction, Child death, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Transphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, and Infidelity

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Antisemitism, Child death, Colonisation, Blood, Classism, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

sabrinaplug28's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

lsmith725's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

There aren't enough good things I can say about this book.  Mostly character driven, but in such a way that there's also a plot.  The character development somehow all magnificently  becomes part of the plot towards the end.  It's also a mystery of sorts, but not a typical mystery.  The family development and relationships are stellar.  So flawed, but so realistic.  If you loved We Were Liars, but were unsure about the follow-up, don't be.  It's more of what I loved from the first one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Sexual assault

penguininabluebox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Grief, Sexual assault, Blood, Child death, and Death

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Vomit, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

zoemain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.25

Objectively this book isn’t bad, but it pales in comparison to the sequel We Were Liars and I personally didn’t enjoy it.
To me a lot of this book felt like filler, ESPECIALLY the entire plot with Rosemary, the dead little sister. OMG, I swear I reread the same scene with Rosemary the ghost 100 times. It goes like this:
Carrie: “Rosemary, why and how are you haunting me?”
Rosemary: “I don’t know.”
Carrie: “Okay.”
Rosemary: “Want to make bracelets and snuggle?”
Carrie: “I’d rather be hanging out with my boyfriend rather than my dead little sister, but I feel guilty, so sure.”
Imagine this, but painfully dragged over two pages and on about ten different occasions. UUGGHHH!
And why is nobody mentioning that you never even learn why Carrie is seeing ghosts! There is no explanation. None! I suffered through so many Rosemary scenes and I don’t have a reason as to why. That really bothered me.
Moving on, the characters were all quite one-dimensional and uninteresting. Carrie is the addict. Penny is the princess. Bess is the little sister. Pfeff is the player. You’ll learn nothing else about the characters other than what I just told you.
I did like some of the mini plot twists but the main plot twist

(Carrie murdering Pfeff)

was so predictable.

Especially because this book follows the exact same formula as the Sequel.

I could go on and on but I’ll stop here. This book was a lazy version of We Were Liars. I won’t be recommending it to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Child death, Death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual content

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Even though this is considered a “prequel” you need to read “we were liars” before reading this book. Similar to the other book, I wouldn't say that I  particularly enjoyed this book, but I was slightly intrigued. I also wouldn’t say this this book was as shocking of a plot twist as the first one. The author wrote in the bonus material of the first book that she would rather make a reader angry/upset and throw the book across the room than bore them, which makes so much sense. Although, her book, “genuine fraud” was quite boring. Anyways, I might read any future books in this series out of curiosity but I wouldn’t say that I particularly recommend or enjoy this book very much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Cursing

mysterymom40's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Medical content, Sexual assault, Blood, Toxic friendship, Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

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