After their first sexual encounter, Carrie and Pfeff struggle to keep their hands off each other.After kissing one night, it is implied that Carrie and Pfeff have sex.A friend speculates to Carrie that he spent the afternoon “‘boning that girl.’” Pfeff reconnects with a girl from his past and spends several hours with her.
Pfeff kisses her and slides his hand “up waist to chest.” Shortly after meeting, Carrie and Pfeff become romantically involved.She was “pressing him against the house with her hand up his shirt.” She then invites him up to her room. Carrie sees her cousin and her boyfriend passionately kissing.When Carrie’s cousin’s parents get a divorce, the cousin tries to ignore evidence that her dad had “girlfriends, or hookers, even.”.While swimming with the boys for the first time, Carrie thinks “the nerves in my fingertips cry out to touch someone.”.When Pfeff is changing, he playfully calls out for the others not to come in and look at his “weenie.” When one of his friends says nobody would be interested in a weenie like his, Pfeff retorts, “It’s a perfectly normal weenie.Carrie remarks that her sister Penny has “kissed too many people to count.”.Carrie recalls her teenage years and fantasizing about kissing, at one point saying, “I longed for love, and I had a pretty urgent interest in sex.”.Readers will not find it hard to get invested in the complicated Sinclair family. Lockhart’s writing style and storytelling ability are captivating and easy to get sucked into. If a reader intends to read both books, We Were Liars should be read first.įamily of Liars is nevertheless a gripping read that fans of We Were Liars are sure to enjoy. The book can be understood without having read its predecessor, but it should be noted that the famous twist of We Were Liars is spoiled on the first page of Family of Liars. The pacing has little twists and turns occurring throughout the story rather than a slow burn to a revelation at the end.
The reader might expect a twist or revelation regarding Rosemary’s death, but there is none to be found.ĭespite its flaws, Family of Liars is still gripping enough to forgive most of the book’s shortcomings. In particular, the haunting that Carrie experiences does little for the story aside from showcasing her relationship with her deceased sister. In addition, certain plotlines feel unnecessary. The large cast of characters will force the reader to pay close attention to who’s who. There are so many of them, and some exit the story for long periods and reappear unceremoniously. First, most of the other characters feel flat. Unfortunately, the story has several flaws. By the end, Carrie is not exactly likable, but she is interesting, and the reader will have a good grasp of who she is. For a portion of the book, readers will feel sympathetic towards Carrie because she begins her story amid a loss, and she spends time reminiscing over the long-ago loss of her sister. Carrie admits that she is unreliable, so the reader is kept on their toes and will be questioning things until the full truth is revealed. The story is framed as Carrie telling it to the ghost of her son, Johnny, who died in a fire in We Were Liars. In Family of Liars, Carrie is the narrator, who is vividly fleshed out. A summer of passion, long-buried secrets, betrayal, and terrible mistakes has only just begun. Irresistible and unpredictable, Pfeff changes everything for Carrie. One of the boys, Pfeff, captures Carrie’s attention right away. Carrie discovers that her cousin Yardley has brought along three boys. Newly confident from surgery that has left her with a chin that is “set forward” and an addiction to painkillers, Carrie is more than ready for love. However, Rosemary’s ghost is not the only surprise the summer will bring. The summer after, seventeen-year-old Carrie goes back to the island where she sees her lost sister. We look toward the future.” This does not change when the youngest sister, Rosemary, drowns. As a family, they follow certain rules: “We keep a stiff upper lip. Her prestigious old-money family, the Sinclairs, spend their summers on their private east coast island. Caroline Lenox Taft “Carrie” Sinclair is the eldest of four daughters.
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