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Anyone else read We Were Liars, and if so what did you think of the ending?
A couple of things bothered me about it. Firstly that the plan was soooo stupid for four supposedly intelligent 15 year olds. It seemed more like something that 10 year olds might miscalculate, but surely at their age they should have known to spread the accelerant first, and then all get together on the ground floor to start the fire and race out of there as a group. Forgetting that the dogs were locked in upstairs was a realistic tragedy that I could buy that they would forget in the heat of the moment, but deciding that one of them should start a fire from the basement, the others should start a fire from the first and second floors, and then being shocked that they then got trapped when the fire started to spread?! Of course only the person on the ground floor would have escaped from a house socked in gasoline, I found it hard to buy that none of them raised any concerns about their plan not being so well thought-out
Also I found it hard to buy that there wouldn't have been ANY consequences for the fire. No matter how rich and well-connected the grandfather was, surely questions would have been asked when the fire brigade noticed all of the gasoline and realised that it was arson? I can't believe that the other parents would just accept what was done to their children and agree to the cover-up, especially Gat's parents who would surely want to know more about how he died? It just seemed to be presented in the end as the sisters and grandfather having learnt the lesson and blaming themselves for the tragedy, deciding to let Cadence escape criminal charges and say no more about any of it, but does life really work like that? And Cadence seemed to be forgiving herself by the end of the book (!), but I wonder what sentence someone would have faced in the real world for killing three other children in an arson attack like that
A couple of things bothered me about it. Firstly that the plan was soooo stupid for four supposedly intelligent 15 year olds. It seemed more like something that 10 year olds might miscalculate, but surely at their age they should have known to spread the accelerant first, and then all get together on the ground floor to start the fire and race out of there as a group. Forgetting that the dogs were locked in upstairs was a realistic tragedy that I could buy that they would forget in the heat of the moment, but deciding that one of them should start a fire from the basement, the others should start a fire from the first and second floors, and then being shocked that they then got trapped when the fire started to spread?! Of course only the person on the ground floor would have escaped from a house socked in gasoline, I found it hard to buy that none of them raised any concerns about their plan not being so well thought-out
Also I found it hard to buy that there wouldn't have been ANY consequences for the fire. No matter how rich and well-connected the grandfather was, surely questions would have been asked when the fire brigade noticed all of the gasoline and realised that it was arson? I can't believe that the other parents would just accept what was done to their children and agree to the cover-up, especially Gat's parents who would surely want to know more about how he died? It just seemed to be presented in the end as the sisters and grandfather having learnt the lesson and blaming themselves for the tragedy, deciding to let Cadence escape criminal charges and say no more about any of it, but does life really work like that? And Cadence seemed to be forgiving herself by the end of the book (!), but I wonder what sentence someone would have faced in the real world for killing three other children in an arson attack like that
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