Rating: 1.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 I hadn't even heard of this book before I saw that it won the 2014 Goodreads Teen Fiction award. After that, I thought that if so many people loved it, I'd better read it since it must be good. Now I'm sitting here thinking why so many people liked it. A lot of my friends on GR gave it 3 stars or less, and had major problems with it. I'm just really disappointed about this book. 
 We Were Liars is told by Cadence "Cady" who is part of the "All-American," rich, white Sinclair family. Her family goes to an island that her grandparents own every summer with the rest of the perfect Sinclair family. She hangs out with the other eldest children. They call their group "the Liars" but we never really have any explanation why. During their 15th summer on the island, some sort of "accident" takes place where Cady has no recollection of what happened and forgets nearly all of what happened during Summer 15. The rest of the book is spent trying to discover what really happened during Summer 15. 
 The first thing I noticed about this book is how different the writing style is. A lot of the time, I didn't mind. But I did have a couple of problems with it. Cady likes to personify her emotions, for example, when her dad left her and her mother, she described the grief and pain as being shot in the chest, and bleeding through her ears, eyes, etc. When another tragic thing happens, she describes the pain as melting. With this sort of thing, sometimes I found it difficult to discern what was real and what wasn't. The second thing is that for some points of the book, it was sort of written in verse, where there were only 2 or 3 words per line. I'm okay with novels written in verse, but when it's randomly inserted into one that isn't, I feel like it interrupts the flow. 
 Gat was my favourite character because he recognized that almost everyone on that island was a rich spoiled brat. Gat was the only person there who wasn't white; he's Indian, and is Aunt Carrie's boyfriend's son. I loved that he realized things for what they were. He told Cady to her face that she is lucky as hell, and shouldn't be complaining because she was in some accident. She's on an island that her family OWNS, she spent a summer in Europe, and she gets nearly everything she could want. Gat basically gets bullied by Cady's grandfather because he's close to Cady but he isn't white. But of course Cady turns her back to that because obviously it doesn't matter that her family is bullying the person she "loves" based on race. Long story short, Gat was the only likeable character because everyone else besides the maids/cooks are privileged but still complain about things that don't matter. 
 Cady was such an irritating character. She was childish, annoying, and dull. She still calls her mother "mummy" at 17 years old. I don't know a single person that does that, but hopefully I'm not offending anyone by saying that it sounds pretty ridiculous while you're reading. 
 Lastly, this book is a whole lot of boring. The whole book we're wondering what the hell happened, and we only get something interesting, AKA the answers, for like 10 pages. I didn't expect what the twist was, but I also didn't really think about it much, although I probably should have. I just wish that more could've been revealed earlier, or that the book was shorter so I didn't have to struggle through 200 pages to get to something remotely interesting. 
 Overall, this book is about 95% boring and 5% interesting. I probably would've enjoyed it more if I connected more with the characters, but I just found it so difficult to find something I could relate to. Honestly, I don't really recommend this to anybody because it's so boring and takes way too long for anything to happen. You're left with questions at the end with no way to get answers. If you're going to read this, I just hope you enjoy it more than I did.