e. lockhart wrote the New York Times bestsellers We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud. Her other books include Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, and the Ruby Oliver Quartet: The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. Visit her online at emilylockhart.com, and follow @elockhart on Twitter.
“Sometimes a book is a book and sometimes a book is a phenomenon.
E. Lockhart’s 2014 Y.A. psychological thriller We Were Liars is,
without a doubt, a phenomenon. . . . The prequel aims to stand on
its own, and technically it does; you don’t need to have read the
earlier book to understand this new one. But for the
greatest enjoyment of Family of Liars, read We
Were Liars first.” —The New York Times, on Family of Liars
"You’re going to want to remember the title. Liars details the
summers of a girl who harbors a dark secret, and delivers a
satisfying, but shocking twist ending." —Breia Brissey,
Entertainment Weekly
"This mindblowing YA thriller from E. Lockhart will make you glad
you're the 99 percent...And that's about all we can tell you when
it comes to the story of 'We Were Liars,' the book by E. Lockhart
that everyone will be reading, and re-reading, this summer. It's
twisty, it's mysterious, and it's got a surprise ending that'll
knock your socks off."
—Kat Rosenfield, MTV News
"Surprising, thrilling, and beautifully executed in spare, precise,
and lyrical prose, Lockhart spins a tragic family drama, the
roots of which go back generations. And the ending? Shhhh. Not
telling. (But it’s a doozy)...This is poised to be big." —Booklist,
starred review
"Lockhart has created a mystery with an ending most readers won’t
see coming, one so horrific it will prompt some to return
immediately to page one to figure out how they missed it. At the
center of it is a girl who learns the hardest way of all what
family means, and what it means to lose the one that really
mattered to you." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Riveting, brutal and beautifully told." —Kirkus, starred
review
"The ending is a stunner that will haunt readers for a long
time to come." —School Library Journal, starred review
"A taut psychological mystery marked by an air of uneasy
disorientation...The ultimate reveal is shocking both for its
tragedy and for the how-could-I-have-not-suspected-that? feeling it
leaves us with. But we didn’t, which is Lockhart’s commendable
triumph." —The Horn Book, starred review
“This is a love story as much as it is a psychological
mystery…Astonishing." —Shelf Awareness, starred review
“[a] haunting, sophisticated mystery...a novel so twisty and
well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to
adolescents.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Irresistible premise for this ticking time bomb of a novel.” —The
New York Times Book Review
"A Lockhart YA is always a treat and this is no exception...The
glimpse we get into a life of privilege, a lifestyle most of us can
only imagine, is insightful and thrilling. The ending will shock
the mose jaded of readers, we promise!" —RT Book Reviews
"There's trouble in paradise at the opening of National Book Award
finalist and Printz honoree E. Lockhart's shattering yet ultimately
hopeful YA novel . . . and neither family nor reader will ever be
the same." —Library Journal
"It's a nearly perfect story, and it's utterly absorbing."
—Bustle, A YA Best Book of the Year
"No book on this summer's reading list will have readers
immobilized in their hammocks more than E. Lockhart's We Were
Liars..... This book has that surprise quality--like Elizabeth
Wein's Code Name Verity--that makes readers scramble back through
hungrily devoured chapters and wonder in admiration: Could I have
seen this coming? Did I miss any clues?" —Newsday
"Like a shard of glass, WE WERE LIARS glitters and shines, then
cuts deep. E. Lockhart has truly outdone herself with this
masterful, darkly mesmerizing portrait of a fractured family ruined
by the excess of wealth. Humming with rich descriptions and
razor-sharp intelligence, the story of Cadence Sinclair Eastman
will both inspire and haunt readers for years to come." —Sarah
Pitre, Forever Young Adult
"Perception often is not reality -- and it certainly is not in WE
WERE LIARS. This is a look at what “a perfect world” looks like on
the inside and how it unravels once one of the players sees it for
what it is. Pitch perfect in both plotting and character
development."
—Carol Fitzgerald, Book Reporter
"The must-read contemporary novel so far this year is definitely E.
Lockhart’s stellar We Were Liars, a rich, stunning summer mystery
with a sharp twist that will leaving you dying to talk about the
book with a pal or ten." —Sonia Charaipotra, Parade
"A haunting tale about how families live within their own
mythologies. Sad, wonderful, and real." —Scott Westerfeld, author
of Uglies and Leviathan
"I've fallen in love with every E. Lockhart book I've ever read
(and I've read them all), but We Were Liars blows them all out
of the water. Dark, gripping, heartrending, and terrifyingly smart,
this book grabs you from the first page--and will never let go." —
Robin Wasserman, author of The Waking Dark
"Spectacular." —Lauren Myracle, author of Shine, The Infinite
Moment of Us, and TTYL
"A haunting, brilliant, beautiful book. This is E. Lockhart at her
mind-blowing best." — Sarah Mlynowski, author of Don't Even Think
About It and Gimme a Call
"Stunningly sharp. . . . will sear itself into your memory."
—Christian Science Monitor
"A haunting psychological thriller." —The Guardian
"The mystery driving the plot is a shocking punch in the face that
will stay with you long after you finish." —Hypable Online
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“There’s no preparing for the shocker of an ending.”
—SLJ
"We Were Liars is amazing. I felt run over by it . . . .Emily has
done something incredible here. —Paul O. Zelinsky
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