Wow

When I first downloaded the eARC from netgalley and read the first page of We Were Liars I thought immediately of We Were the Mulvaneys.  I've never read We Were the Mulvaneys, but I guess it was the title and the whole obsessed with being the picture-perfect family thing and being from New England, that whole deal.  Turns out though, the Mulvaneys were in Upstate New York.
I couldn't wait to read We Were Liars.  I have loved everything I've read by e. lockhart and expected great things.  Even with my high expectations, I couldn't have expected what was to come.  We Were Liars is going to be The Book to Beat in 2014.  Haunting.  Beautiful.  Heart-breaking.  All of those buzz words, they belong to this book.  Characters that are so, so real, you forget you are reading fiction.  Flawed characters, but ones you are still able to love, like family, like real people.  There is a warning at the start of the ARC from Beverly Horowitz, the Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press that urges readers to just read the book, not seek out what it is about before doing so.  And she says at the end that you will want to talk about the book once you read it, and oh, oh I do!  So please, please, get ahold of this book.  Fantastic.  What a way to start the new year.