Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
High school juniors
Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hannah are 4 pretty girls with some ugly secrets.
Hannah had low self-esteem because her own father called her overweight, but
after making herself eat greasy, fatty food, then throw up, she's one of
the prettiest, most popular girls in school now. She stopped for a while, but
after some stressful things happen, all she wants to do is eat. Is she going to
fall back into her bad habbits? Aria has always been the unique one but very
unsure of herself. She contantly tries out different personality types, to see
which one is most pleasing to other people, and make her popular, so she won't
be just the weird girl with the pig-puppet. But when she meets an older man in
a bar, was pretending to be someone she's not the best idea after all? Spencer
is always surpassed by her older sister Mellissa, from school, to
boyfriends. Spencer is always a little envious. And when Mellissa brings
home her new super cute, British boyfriend, will Spencer be able to push aside
her jealousy and resist temptations? And Emily, her life is going pretty well,
she's doing good in school, and one of the stars of the swim team. But things
shake up a little when there's a new girl, Maya, moving in across from her.
Emily is very intrigued by Maya, and soon learns some secrets about her, and
maybe herself. But are Emily's feelings for Maya a little more than
friendly?
What do all these girls
have in common? They were all best friends in 7th grade, along with their
"pack leader", Alison. But the summer 7th grade ends, Ali goes
missing, and nobody knows what happened to her. All the girls are really
confused and creeped out by this, and since it happened, their
friendship broke off. But there's something even scarier happening now, the girls
are getting messages from someone who obviously knows secrets about them, the
mysterious person only signs their name with an "A". Is it Alison?
No. She's been missing for 3 years. She has to be dead by now, and ghosts can't
send texts and emails, right?
I liked this book; the
plot is really interesting and suspenseful! I liked how the book is told in
switching view-points between Aria, Spencer, Hannah, and Emily. It made it easy
to stay interested when there's 4 kinda seperate stories, and I like how they
all tie to each other. It did get a little confusing at first, but other than
that it's a really light read, no big complicated words, it's written
pretty simply.
Book review by Lindsay
