{"id":114023,"date":"2025-11-04T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114023\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:03:11","slug":"we-were-liars-season-2-new-book-we-fell-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114023\/","title":{"rendered":"We Were Liars Season 2, New Book We Fell Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This review contains spoilers for Amazon Prime Video\u2019s \u201cWe Were Liars<\/a>\u201d Season 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d universe expands Tuesday with the release of E. Lockhart<\/a>\u2018s new novel, \u201cWe Fell Apart<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSet in the same world as that of the ultra-rich Sinclair family at the center of the book series \u201cWe Were Liars,\u201d and the Emily Alyn Lind-led Amazon\u2019s TV series adaptation of the same name, \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d follows a new set of characters that have their own secrets to keep and mysteries to solve.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s Matilda, who is invited to spend the summer with her long-lost father: a reclusive artist named Kingsley Cello. When she arrives at his seaside home, Hidden Beach, Kingsley is nowhere to be seen, but she meets her half-brother Meer, a former child star named Brock, and a brooding boy named Tatum who are living in Kingsley\u2019s crumbling, castle-inspired estate.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile the second season of \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d is in the works from showrunners Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie and author Lockhart producing, \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d offers up plenty of story to tide fans of Beechwood Island over until they get to see where the TV drama goes. And now that Cadence Sinclair knows her beloved cousins and childhood sweetheart \u2014 \u201cThe Liars\u201d \u2014<\/a> <\/a>died in a fire<\/a> for which she and they were responsible, the plan is to dive into the dark past of Cady\u2019s mother and aunts, which is explored in sequel \u201cFamily of Liars.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tHere, author Lockhart tells Variety about the story at the center of \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d and teases how he could connect to Season 2 of Amazon\u2019s \u201cWe Were Liars.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\tHow did you come up with the idea for \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d and how it would connect to the first two \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d books?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI got the idea for writing this book when I visited this incredible piece of property on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, which was the summer home of an architect called Araldo Cossutta. And I toured around this property, which was incredibly beautiful and falling apart. And it had a huge circular swimming pool that was filled with leaves and algae and sludge, and it had towers, almost like a castle. And I got excited to write a classic Gothic house story that was also beachy. And I was like, \u201cThis is close to this storytelling world,\u201d but I did not think of it as connected to \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d; I thought of it as its own book. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd I started working on it and at the same time, my side hustle was working on the \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d TV show. So I was really steeped in the world of the TV show. We were casting, and we\u2019re shooting as I am finishing this book, and more and more, the world of \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d was seeping in to \u201cWe Fell Apart,\u201d to the point where I was like, \u201cOh, this is really a book in the same universe.\u201d So it started out as a standalone and became a book in the same universe. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first thing that I want to say is it can be read alone, but for people who have read \u201cWe Were Liars,\u201d I think the thing that they\u2019re going to like the most that starts close to the beginning of the book is that the characters trespass over on Beechwood Island. So Matilda and her half brother, Meer, and two other boys take this boat over at night across the water from Martha\u2019s Vineyard to Beechwood Island, where there has been a recent tragedy. And it\u2019s a kind of a ghoulish, teenage trespassing adventure. And they see the site of the tragedy, and then they go further into the island, and they go to the tennis courts, and they go to the tiny beach, which features a lot in \u201cWe Were Liars.\u201d And so it\u2019s a chance for people to sort of see the world of \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d from a different perspective. And if people want to learn more Sinclair family secrets, they will find them in \u201cWe Fell Apart.\u201d But it is its own story.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tEmily Alyn Lind, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada, Shubham Maheshwari<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJessie Redmond\/Prime<\/p>\n

\t\tWhile the Gothic beachy vibe is present in \u201cWe Fell Apart,\u201d it\u2019s in a very different setting from \u201cWe Were Liars,\u201d despite them being very close in physical distance. What\u2019s the significance of the differences and that juxtaposition? \t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn all three books, there\u2019s a kingdom. In the first two books in this series, the kingdom is Beechwood Island, and it\u2019s ruled by Harris Sinclair, the patriarch, and it is an establishment kingdom, so to speak. And the kingdom in \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d is ruled by an absent patriarch, and it is an alternative kingdom. It is a house in which there\u2019s a very clearly articulated way of life and set of values that are defined in opposition to the kinds of values that are held by the Sinclairs in the other two books. But it is nonetheless a kingdom, and there\u2019s nonetheless a ruler. So it\u2019s still thematically about deciding whether you are a member of a kingdom or you are not a member of a kingdom, and whether you are going to keep safe the secrets of that kingdom or expose them.<\/p>\n

\t\tAre plot points from \u201cWe Fell Apart\u201d being incorporated into the second season of Amazon\u2019s \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d? \t<\/p>\n

\n\tI think all I\u2019m allowed to say is that Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie have read this book.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhere are things so far on production for Season 2? How closely will it follow the second book, \u201cFamily of Liars,\u201d as Season 1 already borrowed some from that book?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s not a lot I can say, but the new season will fold in the story of \u201cFamily of Liars,\u201d and at the same time, I know the showrunners have a bunch of tricks up their sleeve so that people who\u2019ve read \u201cFamily of Liars\u201d will still be surprised. So without going a whole new direction, they\u2019re nonetheless finding new twists. And there will be a current storyline, so you will still see Caitlin FitzGerald and Candice King and Mamie Gummer back. David Morse is coming back. Joseph Zada is coming back. Emily Alyn Lind is coming back. So those characters will have a new storyline that will intersect with the \u201cFamily of Liars\u201d storyline and all the new stuff the showrunners have come up with.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJessie Redmond\/Prime<\/p>\n

\t\tHave you given guidance on where you think the story should go in the present-day storyline for Cadence, beyond the plot in the book?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t think my role on this show is guidance. I think that I\u2019m just a person on the team that is making this show. And Julie and Carina are the showrunners and I\u2019m excited to be on this ride with them, but it\u2019s their ride.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey really care about these characters. They make very bingeable, very entertaining television, but they are also very invested in complex, nuanced, difficult characters who are going through a lot. They\u2019re not interested in simplifying or dumbing down anything. They\u2019re interested in creating an experience for Season 2 that feels like the experience they delivered in Season 1 \u2014 that is emotionally invested in big messy characters.<\/p>\n

\t\tYou have a new TV series based on one of your books in the works at Amazon\u2019s Prime Video, \u201cGenuine Fraud,\u201d which stars \u201cThe Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019s\u201d Rain Spencer. Where\u2019s that project in the development process?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI think Rain Spencer is terrific and has a really big range as an actress. She\u2019s very funny, and she\u2019s also a very good dramatic actor. And we have a showrunner named Sinead Daly, who is the showrunner for \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d \u2014 Stephanie Meyer\u2019s book, basically \u201cTwilight\u201d from Edward\u2019s point of view \u2014 and that is animated and is in the animation process, and that\u2019s why she is free to come and run my show. So she\u2019s writing the pilot, Rain is attached, and it\u2019s gonna be amazing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis interview has been edited and condensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This review contains spoilers for Amazon Prime Video\u2019s \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d Season 1. The \u201cWe Were Liars\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73644,146,85,46,73645,14555],"class_list":["post-114023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-e-lockhart","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-we-fell-apart","tag-we-were-liars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}