Liars

I'd be lying if I gave the impression that I enjoyed every book I read. I quite often sample something just to get out of well worn literary tracks or genres. This can take me into the commercial mainstream and, in this case, to the young adult fiction of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars. So I admit freely I'm not in the target audience but I figure a good book is a good book. Isn't it?

The book hype would have you believe this is not only a good book but an extremely clever book. Shame that the target audience has the attention span of the proverbial gnat as most chapters are about two pages long and don't give any time to really give any narrative or get engaged with the 'rich kid' characters. Even the physical layout of where the action takes place and the family relationships have to be spelt out in pictures at the beginning of the book.

Whilst I'm in moan mode the other thing that bugs me about trying to do a book blog is having to select pictures that can be reproduced without copyright. The publishers are so protective of their property that this normally stops anyone giving them free advertising by showing the book graphics or even the author's mugshot. This can result in some creative lateral thinking to select an image. Not this time. E Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins.