Plot:
Cadence, nicknamed Cady, was part of the beautiful Sinclair family. From old money the family was the beacon of health, blonde, and rich. Starting with Harris Sinclair and his trophy wife Tipper came their three daughters: Carrie, Bess and Penny. The three daughters all grew up, married, and had children of their own. The first grandchild was from Penny, Cadence Sinclair Eastman, followed by Carrie’s son Johnny. Then Bess daughter Mirren, twins Liberty and Bonnie, then another son by Carrie, Will, and finally Bess’s last son Taft. During the summer they spent their summer on this private island in Massachusetts known as Beechwood Island. Each daughter got a house to held her family: Carrie in Red Gate, Penny in Windemere, Bess in Cuddledown, …show more content…
The family calls us four the Liars, and probably we deserve it” (7). The Liars only met during summer, as fall hit and they go back to their normal lives, those summer days of the four of them were forgotten. Yet every year they came back, leaving off where they left last summer. Summer nine, summer, ten, summer eleven, had the four liars playing together till late at night. Summer fifteen, was when it all started. Cady and Gat grew closer together, but then she had her accident, in which Gat never called. Suffering from memory lost, summer fifteen is a hazy blur for Cady, and no one wants to clear it up for her. Neither Johnny or Mirren answered her desperate emails, which Cady knew was a bad idea, but it was Gat who hurt her the most: “The bottom line is, Gat bailed when I got hurt” (33). Skipping summer sixteen to spend in Europe with her dad, Cady begged her mom to spend at least half her summer on the island instead of going with dad, a beg her mother reluctantly agree too. With her aunts holding eachother together, a new Clairmont, and her Liars acting strange, Cady uses this summer to piece together what happen two summers ago, what happen to cause her accident, and did Gat ever truly love her, or were they just a …show more content…
Lockhart wrote this stunning novel, about family, love, drama and the accident that changed everything. The family dynamic that Lockhart set was written on the first page: “Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure” (3). From old money this book screams wealth, I mean come on, they have their own private island! If you can get past their island, five story houses, and cashmere sweaters, this family is broken beyond relief. The daughters forced to get their father attention, knowing the one that begs enough will get what they want, Harris Sinclair is the ring master to the family circus. With all the husband eventually leaving the Sinclair daughters, the Liars grow up in broken households, where no one talks about their problems. From Penny telling her only daughter to act normal, when Cady world is crashing down around her, to hiding her pills so the other family members does not seem. The island takes a main role in the story as that is where everything happens: the fights, love, the island itself is part of the Sinclair family, and part of the root problem. Still Cady and the other characters love it, as for them that is their whole world: “Gat, my Gat, who is not my Gat. The houses. The littles, the aunts, the Liar” (62), is how Cady describes the island. This book eventually goes down the deep and twisted path, as Cady learns the truth behind her accident, what happened summer sixteen when she was in