Tipper throws parties where she and her maid serve four flavors of handmade ice cream, sponsors lemon hunts with $100 prizes, and the food served makes you wonder if everyone on the island is the size of a house. Carrie’s mother Tipper is the uber-hostess and serves “nibbles” of lobster rolls for Happy Hour and Dad serves underaged teens alcoholic drinks. It’s pretty intoxicating for the reader, especially the young reader, to read about these ultra-rich people and how they live, boating hours to the mainland to shop, having everything you never knew needed, at their fingertips. The island is big enough that there are several beaches, several docks, and four houses, one for the caretaker and servant. This summer, her uncle brings three teenaged boys to the island to accommodate his teenaged daughter Yardley. Their wealthy and entitled family spend summers on their private island an hour off of Martha’s Vineyard. This prequel takes place a generation earlier than “We Were Liars,” in 1985, and centers around 17 year-old Carrie and her slightly younger sisters, Penny, Bess, and ten year old Rosemary. If you’ve read the original, the reader might guess that the narrator is unreliable, which is a handy device for leading us astray. Lockhart is the prequel to and almost as good as “We Were Liars.” Boy, can Lockhart plot.
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