Cadence Sinclair suffered a severe head injury during her fifteenth summer on her wealthy grandfather's private island, Beechwood. This resulted in Cadence losing her memory of the event. She skips the next summer when her dad takes her away on a trip to Europe, but when the silence from the Liars (her two cousins, Johnny & Mirren, plus her non-blood-related best friend, Gat) starts to consume, she begs her mother to let her return to Beechwood for her seventeenth summer. When she finally arrives at Beechwood, every single thing she remembers completely changed. Nobody is giving her any sort of explanation. It is up to Cadence to pick up all the puzzle pieces of the past and piece them together to discover what tore apart her family, and the Liars.
The main reason I would recommend this book to people was because of its nonstop suspense. Because every single moment of the book was such a page turner, I read it in a day. The book is set in a cozy, tight-knit beach community of relatives which gives it a very warm, nostalgic feel - but, the small details in the book suggest something different compared to what is portrayed on the surface. This book will help you piece together small details to form a bigger picture, a hidden message, which could cause readers to question everything they knew-which feels extremely thrilling.
— submitted by teen reader Emily M.