Shelve Perfect. Book 4. Unbelievable by Sara Shepard. Shelve Unbelievable. Rewind to junior year in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, t… More.
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Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories. Shelve Heartless. Book 8. Wanted by Sara Shepard. Shelve Wanted. Book 9. Twisted by Sara Shepard. Mona subtly encourages Spencer 's fears that her sister, Melissa might be A as well as Ali's killer. During Hanna 's recovery masquerade celebration, she suddenly regains her memory, revealing that Mona is A. However, she , Emily , and Aria can't do much about it, because Spencer and Mona are on their way to the police station.
After Spencer is warned about Mona by text, she tries to escape Mona 's car, but Mona catches on rather quickly and diverts to a path in a more remote area of Rosewood. She tells Spencer everything, from seeing Ali launch a firework into Toby Cavanaugh's treehouse and blind her friend Jenna , to finding Ali 's diary of secrets among a pile of old DiLaurentis junk the St. Germains left at the curb, discovering the girls' secrets that only Ali knew.
Her motivation was to get revenge for her friend 's blindness, even though Jenna and Ali had planned together to launch the firework. Mona didn't know this and got a scar on her stomach from the ordeal.
Mona also drops the bombshell that Ian Thomas killed Ali , due to Ali 's last diary entry about giving him an ultimatum to break up with Melissa.
She then offers Spencer to become A with her and tell Hanna that she must not be remembering correctly, but she refuses. The two fight at Floating Man's Quarry and Spencer accidentally pushes Mona , who falls and has her neck caught between rocks.
Mona is instantly killed. As the girls move into the big red house they are shocked to receive messages from a new person claiming to be "A".
At first, they believe it's just a prank, especially since the first "A" got major news time. Then the girls believe it's Ian Thomas , who is the prime suspect of the investigation. Spencer is especially certain of this until finding Ian's body in the woods bordering her estate and the old DiLaurentis home.
The girls all get a message from "A," saying "He had to go. However, this "A" is even more twisted than the first; Ian's body disappears and the town is largely convinced that it was a hoax.
Through this new fake identity, "A" feeds Spencer some interesting information about her family, specifically her father's affair with Mrs. DiLaurentis and the possibility that Ali is her half sister. They threaten to send these to her mother, even though Aria has tried to ward off her mother's new boyfriend. Throughout the second half of the series, the second "A" keeps up this forced information search with the girls, pushing them to find more information on Wilden and Jason DiLaurentis.
However, when Jenna is found dead in " Heartless ", "A" plants all of their texts, pictures, etc. This is one of the same workers who was involved in building the DiLaurentises' gazebo when "Ali" was still alive. The girls believe it is all over now, though the fact that the suspect is such a random person bothers them.
Everyone in Rosewood is shocked when the DiLaurentises introduce the existence of a third child, Courtney DiLaurentis. She is the twin of Alison and was kept in various clinics because she was "ill". However, "Courtney" is actually Alison DiLaurentis herself. She reveals her true identity to each of the girls, hoping to gain their friendship and telling them she never died the night of the sleepover. She claims that Courtney must have gotten out of the house and ran into the construction worker, who killed her.
Though the girls believe her and are glad to have their friend back, Aria is the most suspicious of her. It was recently discovered that Courtney liked to pretend to be Ali and she wasn't completely buying her story. Additionally, Wilden and Melissa are also suspicious of "Courtney". Melissa knew about the twins since high school, as their brother Jason confided in her.
He told her they hated each other, but Spencer tells her about "Courtney's" statements that she and Ali shared everything together. Ali's time is running out, for besides the few people suspicious of her, the police start to say that the construction worker has an alibi and might not be guilty. Her secret is further endangered when Aria finds and sends in a photo of a reflection of someone spying on the girls during the sleepover.
The reflection is too blurry, but it is clearly a female. Ali takes Mona's idea and convinces Spencer that Melissa is the culprit. Meanwhile, she kidnaps Melissa- who has just figured out the truth- and keeps her in her family's Poconos home. This is the kinda book you can pick up and read if a few hours while you jump on a last minute flight to the beach for the weekend.
View all 18 comments. Jun 09, Shannon rated it liked it Shelves: color-yellow , young-adult , surprised-i-didn-t-hate-it , mystery , , borrowed. This series feels like it'll be a total guilty pleasure. It really reminded me of some of the R.
Stine and Christopher Pike books that I read as a teen, and that's definitely a good thing. It's not literary genius but it's fun and easy to read.
I started watching the TV show based on this series and I wanted to find out more because the episodes weren't coming out fast enough for me. I didn't feel like reading and watching the same series was redundant, it felt more like they complimented each This series feels like it'll be a total guilty pleasure.
I didn't feel like reading and watching the same series was redundant, it felt more like they complimented each other. I have to say though, that I didn't get enough answers with this one, I'll definitely be checking out the next book.
This series follows a group of four girls that fell out of touch after the disappearance of their mutual friend.
They've all gone their separate ways but something is bringing the girls back together: ominous notes and texts that hint at a secret that only the girl that disappeared would know. Is she watching from the shadows, or, from the grave? I was surprised at some of the topics this book touched on : death, homosexuality, cutting, drug and alcohol use among minors, improper teacher-student relationships, and bulimia, to name a few.
Obviously I'm old enough to read about these things so it didn't bother me, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I actually really liked how the author threw in these controversial topics; it really added a real feeling to the otherwise absurd plot absurd in a good way though! I can't wait until I can read the next book and find out some more of the puzzle. I am definitely intrigued and I will continue to watch the TV show as well.
View all 11 comments. Oct 02, Geraldine O'Hagan rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Before I being, I would like to admit that by choosing to read this book of my own free will, without compulsion or obligation, I made a rod for my own back and have no right to complain about any suffering that followed.
However this did at least have the decency , as you have no doubt noticed, to mention a vampire. This book is clearly not aimed at me. To that end, I would like to say that any teenager whose first reaction upon seeing the picture of a missing young girl is to rate her cuteness in relation to their own is in need of urgent psychological help in order to amend the way in which she interacts with the world.
Where the hell would I get that idea from? Not unless US milk production works a lot faster than I was aware. Which I think is a tiny t-shirt? At any rate, not being allowed to wear this by your parents does not make me feel any great sympathy for your strict upbringing.
If being disallowed from wearing this is considered a harsh rule, then god knows what the other girls look like. The simplification of every example of teen angst and misery Shepard can come up with into a TV-ready series of vignettes featuring unattainably beautiful and rich heroines who are simultaneously incredibly academic and total airheads and whose lives revolve around brands and boys frankly leaves a very sour taste in the mouth.
By making her creations so ridiculously fantastic the author has ensured that not only can a teen reader have no chance of seeing herself in the pages and taking comfort in relation to her own problems, but she is also presented with an unattainable standard of victimhood. View all 43 comments. Jul 11, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: literature , 21th-century , thriller , young-adult , novels , united-states. Beginning with 's initial novel of the same name, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields.
Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic sets in. Jul 07, emma rated it liked it Shelves: owned , 3-and-a-half-stars , ya , mystery-thriller-horror-etc , reviewed , project-review-everything.
View all 6 comments. Oct 07, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it it was ok Shelves: read-in , lying-lies-and-liars , kindle , zero-dollars-makes-me-holler. Truth is, I finished it in one day waaaaaaaaaaaay long ago, but my reaction was. Not a note, not a highlight, not a comment, nada. This time the problem stems from one issue and one issue alone. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn. Now, if I were able to jump in the way-back machine I would probably dig on this series.
Not to mention the T. So yeah. View all 19 comments. Okay, I'm hooked. I started watching the TV show when it first came out, and liked it well enough. So I decided to see how the book series would compare. This book follows a former group of friends three years after their leader, Alison, went missing.
Now they are getting mysterious text messages from a person known only as "A". Despite being only 16, these girls have more skeletons in their closets than the cast o Okay, I'm hooked. Despite being only 16, these girls have more skeletons in their closets than the cast of "Desperate Housewives". The girls have to confront secrets from their past while dealing with issues of their present. I liked this book perhaps more than I'm willing to admit. Its a guilty pleasure read for sure.
The girls are each different and have their own personalities. Aria is the "free spirit" who holds the secret of her dads affair, while trying to hide a tryst of her own. Emily is the demure jock who is questioning her sexuality and overall personality. Hanna is the new queen bee desperate to stay ahead.
And Spencer is the competetive over-achiever who is fruitlessly trying to please her parents. I liked all of the girls, despite their faults. But I did remain unattached from them through out the book. The plot is full of twists and turns and I have absolutely no idea what will happen next.
I'm not sure whether or not I like the TV show or book series more. While they obviously have similarities, they have their fair share of differences, and I think they might be going in different directions.
So as of now, I like them both. Next installment please! View all 25 comments. Feb 12, Lisa rated it it was ok Shelves: young-adult , contemporary. I'm ashamed to admit I've read this book, and the only reason I'm copping to it is because I need it for my reading challenge.
Pretty Little Liars is not the type of book I usually read, but after a friend admitted the show was one of her guilty pleasures, I decided to check out the book. Unfortunately, I got no pleasure from reading this, only guilt and frustration. Pretty Little Liars tells the story of Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna, four girls whose best friend, Alison, disappears one night I'm ashamed to admit I've read this book, and the only reason I'm copping to it is because I need it for my reading challenge.
Pretty Little Liars tells the story of Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna, four girls whose best friend, Alison, disappears one night during a slumber party. After their devastating loss the four girls drift apart, leading their own separate lives. Aria spends two years abroad in Iceland, Spencer immerses herself in her academic and extracurricular actives, Emily focuses on swimming, and Hanna loses weight and becomes the new "it" girl at their posh private school, Rosewood Day.
Three years later, each of them begin receiving ominous text messages from someone named A, who threatens to expose their secrets—secrets only Alison knows. The best thing about this book is the premise.
In the hands of a good writer, this could have been an engaging read, but there is not one aspect of the story, other than the mystery, that was handled well. The characters are vapid and shallow, and an extraordinary amount of time is spent describing their appearance, in particular their designer clothing.
The messages are appallingly unhealthy. One of the main romances is between Aria and her English teacher, which is presented as "true love" rather than an inappropriate affair between a young girl and a much older man, who as her teacher holds a lot of power over her. There are also implied messages about the importance of being thin, wealthy, and wearing designer labels. The writing was very clunky and unpolished.
The dialogue was unrealistic, particularly when it came to the parents. There was an excessive use of dialogue tags and an excessive use of words other than "said. While I'm hardly a stickler for the "only use said" rule, I found it very distracting here. Instead of relying on the dialogue itself to show how the characters are speaking, the dialogue tags tell us how the lines are being delivered.
Shepard also tends to abuse adverbs throughout the text. Most times they were unnecessary, and sometimes they were downright awkward. In one example, a boy "messily dribbled" beer down his chin. The word "messily" is unneeded because it's implied by the situation. I won't be reading on in the series, although I'm mildly interested to know who A is. Those who enjoyed the Gossip Girl series will probably enjoy this one. View all 17 comments. Jan 31, Victoria rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Teenage Girls.
Shelves: realisticfiction. Pretty Little Liars has been my favorite book I have read so far. It is filled with drama, suspense and mystery, but it also brings together friendship and bravery.
Four best friends, Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer, are separated by the death of their friend Alison DeLaurentis, as she has mysteriously disappeared. They each shared secrets with Alison and one very important one that nobody could find out: the Jenna secret. All four friends soon drifted apart, but were brought back together when Pretty Little Liars has been my favorite book I have read so far. All four friends soon drifted apart, but were brought back together when they start receiving mysterious text messages from A.
Could A. Were all of their secrets about to become secret no more? They must work together to find out who it is soon, because all the information Alison kept confidential is no longer safe. Aria Montgomery is a free spirit; she became best friends with Alison, Spencer, Emily and Hanna and made documentaries about their friendship.
She is crushing on her English teacher and she used to live in Iceland. When she returns home and learns that her friends have all separated, she is shocked to find mysterious texts from A.
Now she learns that she must work together with her old friends to find out who A. Hanna Marin is the most popular girl in school. She is dating Sean Ackard, the hottest guy in school and she is also best friends with Mona Vanderwahl, together they are the elite clique of the school and they are totally gorgeous, rich and popular, they never used to be though. In the seventh grade, Hanna was chubby, ugly and totally self-conscious about how she looked, and Mona was completely weird, clingy and she desperately wanted to be popular.
They both decided that in the summer of seventh they would transform themselves into glamorous, beautiful and totally popular people and they would be best friends for life. They showed up freshman year looking totally hot, and nobody cared about the dirty secrets they used to stay beautiful, nobody that is, until now.
Hanna starts receiving terrifying messages from A. Emily is a pale-skinned, redheaded, swim jock. She is the un-girlish of all of her friends and she is constantly attending swim practice and striving to get a swimming scholarship and go to a good school like her sister Carolyn.
Emily soon finds out that she is attracted to girls, and when a mysterious text message she receives from A. Will A. Only time will tell.
Spencer Hastings is your average over-achieving, well-rounded, athletic, smart, beautiful, rich teenage girl. She plays field hockey, does extremely well in school and lives in an amazing house, she has a picture-perfect life, except for one tiny flaw, her menacing older sister, Melissa. Spencer is always trying to live up to Melissa's greatness, be more successful then her, have a cuter boyfriend then her, but when Melissa catches her boyfriend and Spencer making out, Spencer's life is plummeted downhill fast.
Then when mysterious text messages from A. Read this totally awesome, action-packed book to find out! I've been a long-time fan of the tv show so I thought I'd give this book series a try. I don't know if it was because I've seen all those things happening in the tv series, in a much more lengthening and stretching way but this book lacked the thrill the tv show sometimes gives me. I was no surprised at all by anything happening in the book and I expected that there wouldn't be anything that would blow my mind away but I was disappointed by the fact that the characters in the book are a far-cry f I've been a long-time fan of the tv show so I thought I'd give this book series a try.
I was no surprised at all by anything happening in the book and I expected that there wouldn't be anything that would blow my mind away but I was disappointed by the fact that the characters in the book are a far-cry from those of the tv series.
The only character that the book and the character have that is somewhat the same, is Aria. I don't mean they're different looking, they're different characters, different personalities and that was what mainly let me down.. The plot was unraveling fast enough and that's the only good thing, although that was practically the first episode of the tv show, as far as the mystery goes. The writing was mediocre and I thought Mrs. Shepard would be a better author than this. Her characters are swallow I much prefer those of the tv show and the writing is a tad bit sloppy and it left me completely indifferent.
My point with this review isn't to compare the tv show to the book but just clarify the major differences between the two. I'm most definitely sure that even if I had read this before watching the tv series I would have still given it three stars. If you're a fan of the tv series then I don't recommend you read this, I'd say stick with the tv show, instead.
If then again, you're interested in or looking for some contemporary ya with shreds of mystery in it and have never heard of the tv show then go ahead and read this, you may actually end up enjoying this. View all 3 comments.
And I know everything. Then one day, Alison just up and disappears. Three years later, the girls begin to receive threatening texts, IMs, and notes about their secrets, past and present. Aria is flirting with the English Teacher; Emily is hanging out more with the new neighbor girl, Hanna has a dirty way of keeping thin, and Spencer is out for her perfect sister's boyfriend.
What happened to "A"? And will she ruin their lives? Contemporary teen lit typically isn't my thing. I'm 28 years old, and I read a bunch of contemporary teen lit back in the day. But "Pretty Little Liars" has always stared at me, wanting me to read it.
So one day, I broke down and bought the first book. I started reading And the verdict? Not that bad! First off, I want to repeat that I am 28 years old. I can't imagine kids younger than 16 unless they are exceptionally mature reading this. It has drugs. It has sex.
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