by E. Lockhart
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. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it.And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
This book most certainly did not make me happy, but it helped wake me up. For anyone who gets stuck in a rut of habit or routine and you feel you need a good shock to the system, this book will not disappoint. It was so intense and so easy to get sucked into. Sometimes we don't need stuff that makes us feel happy, sometimes we need something that helps us simply feel.
by Hannah Barnaby
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze!
But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco’s display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy’s Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father’s disappearance.
Will she find him before Mister finds her? It’s a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same.
(Summary retrieved from goodreads.com)
I'm not entirely sure what's drawn me to stories whose setting is a circus, wonder show, something with a big old tent and folks on the fringe. This story was exactly what I needed for the mood I was in. I loved Portia, she was such a strong character, I even liked her flaws because she really owned them. A good read, also, for anyone looking for character-driven historical fiction.
