"If you want to live were people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces." 
 *3.5 stars. 
 Meet the Sinclair family. The beautiful Sinclair family. 
 No one is a criminal. 
 No one is an addict. 
 No one is a failure. 
 Or so it seems. Because just like every other family, the Sinclairs are not as perfect as they want the world to believe them to be. Cadence Sinclair and her beloved Liars (her two cousins and Gat, an outsider to the family) learnt that the hard way. When she was fifteen years old, Cadence had an accident during her stay at Beachwood Island, the family's private island. She can't remember a lot about it. The only thing she knows for sure is that it left her with terrible headaches. Two summers later she returns to the island and seeks for answers. 
 I'm not a huge YA fan,sometimes I think it is too cheesy for me. But there is so much hype around some YA books that I become curious about them. We Were Liars was definitely one of these books. Everyone was talking about it,about the huge plot twist and the incredible writing. Well let me tell you, it's good. It's entertaining and it's dark. It's an easy read of course,but it sucks you in from the first page. I even cried a little bit at the end. But that doesn't mean I thought that this was a masterpiece. I was at page 120 when it hit me. What was going on. What the huge plot twist was going to be. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I had grown impatient with everyone acting so weird and I thought it was just bad character development. But then I knew,so I could keep on reading without thinking that everyone was just stupid. What is more, it didn't make the book boring. I mean I knew WHAT had happened, but I didn't know HOW or WHY it had happened. And I still teared up. I'm just saying, the plot twist is not so hard to guess,but the story is still interesting nonetheless. 
 When it comes to the writing I thought it was okay. Nothing exceptional but okay. I like short and fragmented sentences, they add tension and indicate a troubled and stressed narrator, something Cadence of course is. The only thing that bothered me was the extended use of metaphors and adjectives when Lockhart wanted to describe her heroine's feelings. And I quote: 
 "Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, 
 then from my eyes, 
 my ears, 
 my mouth." 
 At first I was so excited, I thought she was really shot and that would have been so out of the blue and intriguing, but hell no. She was just sad. And that is how you describe sadness, isn't it? There are many other passages which are written exactly like this, especially the ones about her headaches. It sounded pretentious after a while. So that was a problem. That and the repeated " Gat, my Gat." We got it, she is in love, enough with it already. Gat wasn't even properly hers to begin with. He had another girlfriend, remember? 
 But all in all, it was enjoyable. The story itself was convincing, the characters although not very well developed -you only have 200 pages to get to know 4 main and even more secondary ones- were realistic and I sympathized with them even though they brought this misfortune on themselves. But don't we all? Sometimes we say things we shouldn't say,we do things we shouldn't do, we don't think about the consequences of our actions. We end up hurting ourselves and the people around us, even when we never meant to do so. That is our biggest tragedy,and the Sinclairs' tragedy too. 
 "Be a little kinder than you have to."