We Were Liars is one of the few books that I have read because of the hype. I try to stay away from hyped books but at the beginning of my booktube shenanigans there were some books which I read solely because they were hyped. They all fell kinda flat for me. 
 We Were Liars is written in a very beautiful lyrical way and I had no problems with the short sentences that looked as if a 13 year old on tumblr wanted to find her aesthetic, it was alrighty. 
 The plot of the book however was a little pointless wasn't it. A bunch of rich people who live on their island next to each other and the daughter of one of the families is sick and discovering a secret of her past. The huge plot twist didn't do it for me because I literally didn't get it the first time I read it because I didn't know a specific word so I just read on and then after 15 pages I was just so confused and looked up that one word and was just like... oh okay, that is what that means, oh well, my bad... and I stopped caring about the characters. :D 
 Below average I'd say.