» QUICK OVERVIEW «
Stars: ★★☆☆☆
Plot: ★★☆☆☆
Readability: ★★☆☆☆
Characters: ★★☆☆☆
Writing: ★☆☆☆☆
Recommend: ✗

» PLOT «
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

I once wrote that I was stupid for not really liking or understanding how books with ghosts/imaginary stuff works. (See: The Astonishing Color of After) And this isn't that much different, other than the fact that I just didn't care about this book. I mainly read this because of the hype it gets and because of how short it was.

» READABILITY «
fast but boring read

» CHARACTERS «
don't care about any of them. also did not like how they were referred to as "liars," cringe.

» WRITING «
I don't really notice bad or good writing style unless I really focus on the writing. I was tipped off to how some people didn't like the writing style, and that made me pay attention more.

The writing isn't my favorite. It's very short and abrupt, less beautiful and not very smooth.

» OVERALL «
i've heard that people either love or hate this book, and i'm leaning towards hate.