We were liars

We were liars is a book written by E. Lockhart. It describes the mysterious event happened in Beechwood island and how the main character Cadence found the truth. The characters in this book are from a old-money family--Sinclair. This is high social class family, they are incredibly rich, handsome, athletic and tall. The narrator and main character is Cadence who. Cadence's grandparents are Harris Sinclair and Tipper Taft, they have three daughters--Carrie, Bess and Penny. Carrie's children are Johnny and Will. Bess's children are Mirren, Liberty and Bonnie, Taft. Cadence are daughter of Penny. 

The whole family went to private island-beechwood island every summer. Parents call four young children liars--Mirren, Johnny, Cadence and Gat. Gat is Carrie's boyfriend's nephew. The story starts with that Cadence's father left her and her mother, go with another women. Gat and Cadence were fell in love for a short time. I feel the reason is that Gat is not the member of Sinclair's. So he is always a outsider, he can't be in part of their life even he also comes to the island in summer.

This book reminds me of another young adult book that is called Gossip Girl. Similar as We were liars, teens in that book are rich, they lied, and there is also one outsider boy who is not belong to their rich world but tried to join in their group. In We were liars, four children always lie. I feel like the reason they lie is to hide the fact of this family. Rich family always have some secret that can't show to people, for example, they debted, the family relationship is bad; but as a member in that family, they have to hide it, because they Sinclair's . They have high self esteem. They have to lie to hide the truth of family, they have to smile to someone in the family who they actually don't like to take with. They must pretend to have a perfect rich, high social class family.