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Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart | Waiting on Wednesday

Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart | Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday: Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart If you’ve been in the YA world for awhile, you know that E. Lockhart writes fierce femmes who aren’t afraid to assert their authority over men. See: Ruby Oliver. See: Frankie Landau-Banks. See: Cadence Sinclair (P.S. We Were Liars deluxe edition coming out in May!!) Ms. Lockhart takes her time with her YA books, only publishing every few years. And the books are usually short. But they are packed with perfect diction, brilliant prose, and twists and turns that slay you. In my opinion, it is very, very hard to write a believable, […]

A Very Literary Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

June 13, 2014 / 10 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
A Very Literary Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

We Were Liars Author: E. Lockhart (website | twitter) Publisher: Delacorte Press (Random House of Canada) Source: Finished copy from BEA14 Format: Hardcover, 227 pages Publication date: May 6, 2014 My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.  A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone […]