![]() ![]() As one of the most acclaimed YA novels of the season, it sets up high expectations that don’t quite deliver: at the end I’m wondering, “What was that all about?” It might be seen as a provocative picture of Modern Youth and its anger at nothing to live for: “. This novel is also anguished, and after the highly-touted surprise ending has played out, it feels aimless as well. Her grandmother has died and Granddad has descended into a Lear-like domestic tyranny while the aunts fight and drink the Liars are aimless and anguished and no one will tell her what happened that fateful summer. ![]() Something happened the fifteenth summer, something Cadence can’t remember. ![]() Gat, an outsider, joined Cadence and her cousins (the Four Liars, they call themselves) during the summer they all turned eight, and became part of the group all the way into their teens. Cadence is a Sinclair: oldest grandchild of the favored, rich, tall, blond clan who spends summers all together on Beechwood Island, their private reserve not far from Martha’s Vineyard. Now her mom wants her to just Be normal now. That’s what happened (figuratively, of course) when Cadence Sinclair Eastman’s dad left the family. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. ![]()
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