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It is a rare achievement for a book and its corresponding TV show to be as spectacularly awful as each other in a fantastic series of ways but We were liars is the unique work of art that pulls it off.
No one else will tell you this, by the way. In an attempt to eat in hours of your time that you never come back, e Lockharts We were liars Attempts to sell us the story of Cadence Sinclair, her image-perfect cousins, their small private island, their idyllic sunshine, sea-soft summer holidays. There is also a terrible tragedy that Cadence refers to, but not Deigner to give us any details about.
A huge part of the reason for Cadenence’s restraint is that she has no memory of any of these horrible things, and none with a full fucntion memory in her life finds it appropriate to deliver answers. Despite the promising title, no one actually lies anything here. Everyone is just annoying stump. Cadence is left to play detective, causing you to get close to throwing either your remote or the book when she has arrived at her crisp conclusion. We really need to find a way to cure literary memory taps to spare future readers the pain of a wandering, incoherent protagonist who might have been pushed out of a cliff at the earliest option.
Unfortunately, not everyone subscribes to these unfriendly thoughts of fictitious amnesiacs like cadence. Infected Booktokers, who was too late to pick up this bestseller from 2014 along with dizzy IMDB correction readers who fell in love with the primary video show of the same name arriving in June, conspiring to catch you into the well of horror that is both the book and the limited series. Don’t be the fraudulent fool that falls for their solemn promises of expertise unless you enjoy the incomplete, imaginative punctured sentences wasted from an unreliable teenager, revealing a VRI that makes you wish she had perished on page 1 – of both the book and the manuscript. Consider this warning as a public service.
A wandering mess
If you are not already flooded with gratitude for this simple public service, you must be because you have now been spared for two days of foaming through boring descriptions of our heroine’s trauma -induced headache. And don’t feel like you’re left out of this headache party if you only plan to watch the show! You show that viewers also get to experience your reasonable share of We were liar-in -induced headaches after having a little through intense close -ups of dazzling blonde hair and shiny white teeth. Before you are all up in weapons, we must make it clear, we do not discriminate against dental hygiene and bright hair hair; What we say is that one should not have to reach out to sunglasses when you find yourself in extreme dense quarters with teeth that dazzle like the sun and dominate the screen, certainly not one, we are in these teeth on TV instead of our phones.
In any case, what way of trauma has caused cadence to be plagued with her tenderness and pain is not made immediately clear; What is definitely clear is that it gets them, and keeps us all in the loop without thought left over for commas or actual punctuation of any description – at least not in the traditional sense. Unbeated by scaffolding and structure, Cadenence’s phrases melt in each other with not quite finesse of sugar accumulating in caramel on a hot pot, but more like instant coffee cranules spilling on a wet kitchen floor. You are left with sludge, a mess that you want a nearby adult, would clean up until you remember that you are the only adult nearby and no one else is going to clean. Thus, Cadence has become Holden Caufield in the 21st century, which is not entirely the sterling recommendation carrier of Catcher in rye Would like to believe it is.
Annoying comrades
Like all her colleagues teenage protagonists, Cadence also has a love interest of her age that goes after ‘gat’. Gat is Montague to her capulity, the jack for her rose. We are informed in both the book and the show (via Cadence’s Expository Monologue) that GAT is “contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.” In the event that we missed it, we are reminded of it repeatedly, even though the first time we get this opening description of him, it is when Cadence and Gat are both eight years old, so what she knows about either ambition or strong coffee at that age is a bit of a question mark. Perhaps the strong coffee is a metaphor for GAT’s skin color (because of his Indian heritage, which must of course be given a food -oriented description if we are to have some hope of depicting what he looks like.) It is certainly not because Gat is a caffeine addict. We have also not yet released what levels of ambition or contemplation Gat radiated at the age of eight chosen by Young Cadence.
Gat is not the only person assigned to such trite allegories. On both side and screen, Cadence’s cousins and best friends, John and Mirren, come with similar labels. John is apparently “jump, forces and snark.” Mirren is meanwhile “sugar, curiosity and rain.” How to get spring loaded with effort or sugar? This, like GAT’s ambition and coffee, remains temptingly fuzzy, although at least one easily impressed reviewer is to believe, all this sign of “beautifully executed, extra, precise and lyrical prose.”
In addition to being a snark, sugar and strong coffee, John, Mirren and Gat Grundfjord in Cadence forms the annual sland holidays, which, as you may have guessed because of the presence of the mysterious bad thing, not quite as idyllic as either lyrical prose or close-up of beautiful sun-kissed hair will lead you to believe. Will Cadenence’s besties help her find the answers she so desperate and boring looking?
If you are the type of reader who prefers their book or show sticking to the genre that has been promised in blurb, then I have even more bad news for you because We were liars Also takes freedoms here. With a plot that moves at the speed of an older sloth of arthritis, we must ask ourselves: are we dealing with a murder mystery? A supernatural thriller? A medical drama? Is any of this real? Are booktokers tall?
The good news is that we end up receiving answers in most of these questions. The bad news is that the answers are likely to send you to a spiral of rage cleaning when you try to erase them from your mind. (Thoughts and prayers if you start this foolish book or show travel under a long -distance aircraft We were liars – In both show and book format – to a very abhorrent enemy.
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