Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Book- Pretty Little Liars

By- Sara Shepard

Summary

In Rosewood, PA, a rich suburb outside of Philadelphia, everything seems better. The water tasted better, in the summer Rosewood smelled like lilacs and mown grass, and the clean snow and wood stoves in the winter. It was the summer of going into 8th grade at Rosewood Day School. Five best friends Ali, Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hannah were having a sleepover the night that turned their world upside down. Ali was the leader of the group, she was pretty, popular, and everyone wanted to be her. Spencer was athletic and very into field hockey and was on the JV team at school. Emily was also athletic since she had been swimming for practically her whole life. Aria was the ballerina of the group, very graceful and elegant. Hannah was the odd one out. The girls rarely fought with eachother but that night it all changed. Spencer and Ali got into a fight which forced Ali to leave, and never come back. She was gone for good, and so were the secrets they intrusted in her, atleast for four years. The four friends drifted apart after Ali disappeared. Four years later when everything seems to be going great, but a new character comes into play, "A". No one knows who this person is or what it plans on doing. But one day Emily recieves a note from "A" and the messages claim that they will spread all of their dirty little secrets to everyone. Later on they all start recieving messages from this A person. They all start to think that A is Ali, but they were wrong. Emily's friend Maya moved into Ali's old house, they started to dig for a new pool, where they find Ali's body.

Review

In this book the author Sara Shepard creates many moods and styles of writing. She includes suspense, humor, and seriousness into her plot. This book could happen to anyone in real life, but it is not likely to happen to anyone in the near future. The characters though are very real and life like. They could pass as any normal teenage girl would. In this book there are many turning points, that you do not expect to happen. Like when they find Ali's dead body and when Emily receives the very first note from A. In Pretty Little Liars the plot is the stronger point in the story. Without the plot the characters could not grow and develop like they have. For this book the author was trying to create a book that would hook the reader in automatically with the dialouge and characters. Sara Shepard was trying to accomplish a book that any girl would like to read, and could possibly relate to. I definately recommend this book to high school girls, but if you are a guy, I guess you could read this book too.