Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

by Sara Shepard

Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide all their secrets to her. One night, during a sleepover, Alison goes missing. Her body is never found. The girls mourn her death but move apart after time, assuming their secrets have disappeared with Alison too. Three years later and Aria is having an affair with her teacher; Emily is questioning her sexuality; Hanna is a thief; and Spencer is flirting with her sister's fiance. They all think their secrets are safe, until they starting receiving messages from the mysterious A - who knows exactly what they are all up to, and is threatening to spill the beans ...

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3 of 5 stars

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This is the first book in the Pretty Little Liars 14 books and 2 Novellas series! This one was a reread for me as I originally read this book after having marathoned the first two seasons of the tv show.

Alison, Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna are five best friends who are also the mean girls at school. Yet it appears as time has gone on they have more that's going to tear them apart than they actually do in common anymore.
After what was supposed to be a sleepover one night Alison goes missing after getting into a fight with Spencer. With no one knowing where she went or who possibly took her after several years everyone is just trying to forget. The rest of the girls have split apart and created new friendships, but all of a sudden they are getting creepy notes, emails, and texts from an unknown person going by A who seems to know all of the secrets that Alison knew.


Overall I really did enjoy this series. After having watched the final episode of the tv show and not exactly being happy with it, I've decided to give the book series another try and to see if they are similar at all. So far they seem to be. Ezra was still just as creepy to me with the whole student-teacher relationship, just no not okay! Wren is still not a good guy in my opinion like so many people try to make him seem to be. As for the girls so far most is the same as what was in the show besides how some of them look, and I am completely okay with that change.

Now onto the next one!

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