My Reaction to "We Were Liars"

“We Were Liars” was my favorite book that we have read this year for English class. It was easy to read and the story was interesting for the whole book. It is the only book that we read where I would sometimes want to read ahead to find out what happened next. All along, I imagined that the Liars had a very good life on the island. The adults let them do what they wanted to and did not bother them most of the time.

The adults in the family all seemed to have problems in their lives. All three of the Aunties had broken up with their husbands, but they seemed to have good lives. I don’t think that any of them had to work, but they complained all the time because they wanted Granddad’s money. Each Auntie would even try to have their children do sweet things for Granddad so that they would be his favorite. The Aunties were very greedy. But, Granddad made it worse because he used his money to control his family. He would sometimes do things to make the Aunties fight more.

As we learned how Cadence hurt her head, we found out what really happened to the Liars. The first thing that made me think that Johnny, Mirren and Gat might be dead was when she had not talked to Johnny, Mirren or Gat since her accident. Nobody had answered any of her emails. When Cadence went back to the island, Cadence had grown, but Johnny, Mirren, and Gat were the same size as in Summer 15. Then, I noticed that Cadence was the only one that was talking to them. I did not know whether it was her imagination or maybe she was talking to their ghosts. As she started to remember, I wondered whether what she remembered really happened or maybe she was confused.

It seemed like something was missing at the end of the book. Cadence and the Liars had done such a bad thing burning the house. When Cadence realized that she had killed the dogs in the fire, she got very upset. I thought that when she realized that she had killed her friends in the fire that she would go crazy or maybe kill herself. I thought something big and surprising would happen at the end of the book like we would find out that she was dreaming and the Liars were not dead. The way the book ended was not as exciting as the rest of the book. At the end of the book, it seemed like Cadence had become a better person and was kinder to her family. She would probably grow up, go to college, and live a happy life. That was not what I expected, but it was still my favorite book.