S. Jae-Jones is the author of
Wintersong. At the BN Teen blog she tagged five YA thrillers with a supernatural twist, [
spoiler alert] including:
We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
Cadence is suffering memory gaps and strange physical symptoms of unknown origin, and it all has to do with what happened the summer she can’t recall. Now, two years later, she’s returning to the private island owned by her family for the first time since that summer, hoping that reuniting with her cousins Johnny and Mirren and her friend Gat will help her remember. The four of them were known as the Liars, and have spent summer together on the private island since they were young. What begins as a mystery about what happened to Cadence turns into a slow unraveling and deconstructing of the privilege that allowed the Liars their summer idylls. The twist may not necessarily be a shock for savvy genre readers, but the twist of the heartstrings might be.
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the other entries on the list.
We Were Liars is among
Jeff Somers's six novels in which nothing is as it seems,
Avery Hastings's five favorite books featuring unreliable narrators,
Darren Croucher's five favorite YA novels featuring liars,
Michael Waters's six must-read YA books for Mr. Robot fans,
Lindsey Lewis Smithson's top seven sob-inducing books that deserve to be made into movies,
Ruth Ware's top ten psychological thrillers, and
Meredith Moore's five favorite YA thrillers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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