E. Lockhart wrote the New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and the upcoming Genuine Fraud, a psychological thriller. Her other books include Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and the Ruby Oliver Quartet, which includes The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. Visit her online at emilylockhart.com, and follow her on Twitter at @elockhart.
"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 "Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart,
We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." -- John Green, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars "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.com, 2014's Best YA Books
"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 "Beautiful and disturbing." --Justine Larbalestier
"Stunningly sharp. . . . will sear itself into your memory."
--Christian Science Monitor "A haunting psychological thriller."
--The Guardian "This is a brilliant new novel by E. Lockhart. I've
always adored a good generational drama and this is deeply
fascinating reading and soaked in suspense. And the ending is
utterly spooky." --Martin Short, including WE WERE LIARS in his top
3 books of 2014 "We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is a book as tragic
as it is interesting." --USAToday.com, Must-Read Romances "Utterly
immersive story of family privilege, young love and insurmountable
tragedy." --Salisbury Post "The mystery driving the plot is a
shocking punch in the face that will stay with you long after you
finish." --Hypable.com. Hypable-Weekend Reading
"There's no preparing for the shocker of an ending."
--SLJ.com "This month marks the publication of another fine YA
novel destined to extend beyond the teen set. 'We Were Liars, ' by
E. Lockhart is quite simply amazing." --The Missourian
"This book has everything I want from a summer read: a gorgeous
setting that I can imagine I'm vacationing in; flawed, unreliable,
sometimes infuriating characters; and a twity-turny psychological
mystery that is impossible to put down." --RookieMag.com "We Were
Liars is amazing. I felt run over by it . . . .Emily has done
something incredible here. --Paul O. Zelinsky
"Goose bump-inducing." --BuzzFeed.com, YA Novels to Watch Out for
Spring 2014
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