Narrator Ariadne Meyers made Cady’s confused state of mind believable. Even if you feel a lack of connection to the story at first the mystery has a great payoff in the end that gives you all the feels. I did feel detached from the story and the characters at times, but I’m thinking that’s part of the design of the book. Lockhart’s writing is smart and poetic, and the book is cleverly crafted. With the setting and Cady’s foggy headspace there is a dreamy quality to the book that is further enhanced by the dark fairytales that Cady references in the story. My mind was going to all kinds of dark places, but I was still way off base. And adding to the mystery angle, all the Liars and family members are instructed not to tell Cady what happened two years ago. She’s dyed her hair black, has memory loss and migraines, and gives away her belongings. After the mysterious incident in the 15th summer, Cady returns two years later a different person. Issues of class, race, gender roles, and privilege are on the table among the Liars, and their old-money families are at the mercy of Cady’s grandfather who holds the purse strings. But as the book wore on I got more curious about Cady, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and her love interest Gat, the outsider, who only see each other in the summer and live separate lives during the school year. It took me some time to warm up to this group of privileged teens. The reader follows a scant trail of breadcrumbs to put it all together, but still, the final act will likely shock you. During the 15th summer everything falls apart, and our unreliable narrator Cadence (Cady) Sinclair Eastman suffers a head injury and selective amnesia.
They summer with their families every year at an exclusive island off Cape Cod. We Were Liars is about a group of four family friends that call themselves the Liars.
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