Would you still choose to keep your memories if they hold all the remorse, heartbreak and loss that have the potential to break you and devoid your soul of any glint of happiness? Would you still want to be able to recall what shattered you and everyone around you? Would you choose to remember? Or is forgetting a blessing in disguise in this case? We Were Liars might help you decide.
Synopsis
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In E.Lockhart’s We Were Liars, the readers are invited to share two significant summers with the Sinclair family, a wealthy family that is broken in so many ways. The distortion that they can see only in each other’s eyes brings them solace, and maybe even keeps them together. Their kind of mess cannot be handled by any outsider. But then again, choosing to walk away might cost them all they believe to be their birthright, money, possessions, and statues. Things that Cadence, our narrator, believes are unnecessary after all she went through.
The main focus of the story is not the adults of Sinclair per se. It is the three teenage cousins Cadence (or Cady), Mirren, Johnny and his best friend Gat. All of them spent each summer on the private island the Sinclairs’ Grandfather Harris owns. Their friendship bloomed one summer after the other and they built a strong bond. Cadence and Gat ended up falling in love, a young, uncertain, overwhelming, but all too sweet love.
Our book follows the Liars, a nickname they got because of their troublemaking nature and lying their way out of everything, and this should be your first sign not to trust any of them or what they say.
Early on, we learn that Cady often suffers from splitting, even crippling at times, headaches due to a certain incident that happened during her summer 15, which prevents her from going to the island the next summer. She also has a hard time recalling the details of what happened because she is struggling with selective amnesia, so she is left with more questions than answers until summer 17 when she finally goes back to the island.
Something went terribly wrong. Even while reading you will sense it as everyone around Cady is avoiding talking about the accident, and you’re as bewildered as her. But as time goes by, she starts filling up the gaps she has in her memory. Being with the Liars, and falling right back into Gat’s arms, helped her start remembering bits and pieces, flashing memories.
You might be wondering, why can’t one of them just straight up tell her what happened, but as Gat puts it “I think we’re telling you, but you can’t hear it.” Everyone believed she would hear it when it best suited her, but how long is too long? How long until the ghosts of her past start haunting her, and consume the remaining sane part of her brain? How long until the illusion of the picture-perfect Sinclair family is burnt to the ground in front of her eyes?
We Were Liars: The TV Show
The novel has been adapted into a series under Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon Studios. Moreover, the cast has been announced; Emily Alyn Lind will play Cadence, Shubham Maheshwari will play Gat, Esther McGregor will play Mirren, and Joseph Zada will play Johnny. Additionally, the powerhouse David Morse will play Harris Sinclair.
The writers and executive producers team also include Julie Plec (Previously worked on The Vampire Diaries and Legacies) and Carina Adly MacKenzie (Previously worked on The Originals) with the former writing the Pilot episode and the latter writing the second one. Emily Cummins (Previously worked on The Endgame and Vampire Academy) and the author E.Lockhart are executive producers, which made the novel’s fans excited to witness her vision translated to the screen and reassured them the series remains loyal to the magical and tragic fabric of the narrative.
In a way to send a cryptic message to the fans of the novel and also tease the series, the executive producers, Julie Plec and Adly MacKenzie invited everyone to stick to the first rule of the book. “If anyone asks you how it ends…just lie.”
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