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 s