Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Mysterious Family



The book We were Liars is a modern novel which is about a loyal family named "Sinclair". Sinclair family is old-money family, has very complicated story, and moves in the Beechwood Island every summer which is their private island. The story and the mysteries are starting in there. This interesting book was written by E. Lockhart whose real name is Emily Jenkins. She is an American writer of young-adult novels and adult fiction. According to my self research of this book, this book is very popular, so it has its own website which is all about this book, and has been on a lot of articles about the bestseller. I've read up to chapter 5 which is around 15 pages. They are not many pages, but there was so much information and many characters and relations to get.
Sinclair family, who has blond, tall, athletic, and beautiful features in their genes, has grandfather Harris who has a large business which helped him to build up such a honorable family who has more than enough fortune and expectations to inherit, and grandmother Tipper who has very high family pride about their family because she didn't seem to like Ed due to his non-Sinclair looking. And there are their three daughters Penny, Carrie, and Bess. Penny has a child Cadence, Carrie has two children Johnny and Will, and Bess has four children Mirren, Taft, and the little twin Liberty and Bonnie. Cadence is the main narrator in this book. She is eighteen years old and used to be an authentic looking Sinclair family member. She is telling the story of her family by using flashback.   There is a group called as "The Liars". It has members who are Cadence, Mirren, Johnny, and Gat. Johnny is bounce, effort, and snark, and Mirren is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Sinclair family has high self-esteem and identity, so they hate people who don't meet up their inherent characteristics.
The setting of the book is in present time. Also all the things are happening in Beechwood Island. By reading only five of short chapters, I could get Cadence and Gat are falling in love, and that love is going to make some troubles or leading to something unpleasant situation. Sinclair family has their own strict rules; they have to always smile even if there is unfavorable situation, even if there is hard struggling going on. "No one is criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure. No on is needy. No one is wrong." They are saying as if they are truly perfect family. Maybe in my opinion, their statements would be revealed as a false just like the title We were Liars, and the competition between three greedy daughters to get more heritage from their parents would ruin their family. As all the things that I know are less than one-twentieth, I am looking forward to get to know the mysteries in that family and the progress of the story as well as the ending.

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