A beautiful family, a liars’ family

The new book that the class chose to read was “We were Liars”, written by E. Lockhart. It was a mystery fiction book, which I didn’t know what the mystery is until now. I have read to chapter 5, but each chapters were short and the writer’s language using was concise. Thus, I thought I only got some basic information about the book. Actually, I read it so carefully that I wouldn’t want to miss any important sentence will confused my future reading.

The story started by introducing their family. They were the Sinclairs, who owned a private island. They were all beautiful and noble; they were all smart and athletic; they were all rich; and they were all happy. It made me to think about if that was even a lie. However, when I read chapter 2, I made sure that they were not that happy. Cadence was the main character and the narrator of the book, but actually, she wasn’t a reliable one. Her dad left her mom, Penny, and her in her 15^th year of being the Sinclairs. It’s because he didn’t want to lie, or smile or being that family anymore. Cadence felt sad and of course she lost her temper, but her mom just told her to come down and be normal. In fact, it was what they usually did. They have to pretend to be happy and always smile. Was that a beautiful family? I asked myself.

Then, the story flashed back to the 8^th summer in her life. There was a rule that all the Sinclair daughters should go back to Beechwood Island every summer. Cadence’s grandparents had three daughters, Penny, Carrie and Bess. Cadence was Penny’s daughter. Carrie’s husband also left her already; the reason hasn’t mentioned yet, but I think it might be the same reason that Cadence’s father left. And she have had a new boy friend called Ed. Ed was not as similar as the Sinclairs; he has dark skin, just like the Indians, and black hair. He brought his nephew with him, which called Gat. Johnny was Carrie’s son, and he’s bounce, effort and snark. Mirren was Bess’s daughter, and she’s sweet, curiosity and rain. Cadence, Mirren, Johnny and Gat combined together and were called, the liars. Nevertheless, I didn’t know the reason yet.

Although Ed and Gat looked so different from the other Sinclairs, Cadence loved Gat straightforwardly. In chapter 5, Cadence and Gat went to a boat together and then went to swim in the cold water. Then, Gat found that Cadence was beautiful and Cadence found that they match each other. Cadence had said that, ”I am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural.” However, Cadence knew that she loved the feeling that they seemed to understand each other so well.

I wanted to say that I wish the young love would insist for a long time, but my curiosity refused my mind with the decision of with stop reading the book. I’m sure that the following chapters are attractive and I wish to understand the plots soon.