Flawless

"Beauty is only skin deep."

Flawless, another Pretty Little Liars book by Sara Shepard, illustrates how every girl in Rosewood only wishes they could be flawless, one of them being Hanna Marin.

Once Hanna became best friends with Mona, they swore to each other that they would never lose their cool, always look fabulous, and never cry in public. With the way Hanna's life is going, it's a lot harder than it seems. She is forced to work in a burn clinic, and on top of that, Sean hasn't returned any of her phone calls. Hanna's father suddenly wants to spend more time with her. Not to mention A seems to know more about her than she thought...

Spencer's life couldn't get any crazier. Ever since Wren came into her life, things between the Hastings sisters went from bad to extremely worse. Her parents have completely stopped talking to Spencer and have even cancelled all her credit cards. She starts skipping classes and even some of her extracurriculars here and there. The good student record she's worked so hard for starts slipping through her fingers, and A is taunting her all the way...

Emily is more confused than ever. She thought she had it all figured out, but with her ex-boyfriend harassing her, she's too scared to even think. Wanting to return back to her normal life, she accepts the role of captain of the swim team, and she begins avoiding Maya completely. She even forms an unexpected relationship with Toby Cavanaugh, the only other person involved in The Jenna Thing. But nobody else knows about that. Nobody except A...

Aria sees her family falling apart more and more every day. With Ezra out of her life, she has no one to talk to anymore. Her brother, Mike, is even more distraught than she is after they come across their father with another woman in a bar. Things start to look a little brighter when she befriends Sean Ackard, one of the typical Rosewood boys she never thought she'd speak to. Aria confides in him, but still keeps the dreadful secret from her mother, despite A's threats...

All four girls are shaken up since the funeral. It's difficult to try and solve the mystery while preparing for the Foxy dance. They think they have a theory, but are they right?

Flawless is the second novel in the Pretty Little Liars series. More scandals and mysteries evolve as A continues to haunt the girls' every move.

Pretty Little Liars

"Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret."

In Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard, the town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania is full of them. Best friends, Alison, Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna were the girls who had it all, including all the secrets. That is, until Ali disappears one night during the traditional beginning-of-the-summer sleepover.

Three years later with no leads on their missing friend, Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna live totally separate lives.

Emily is coerced by her mother to deliver a welcome basket to their new neighbors, the St. Germain's, the ones who moved into Ali's old home. This is when Emily meets Maya St. Germain, who turns her life upside down. Even though she has been with her boyfriend, Ben, for a while, Emily finds herself enjoying Maya's company much more...

Aria is returning to Rosewood from Iceland. Her family moved here a little while after Ali disappeared so Aria's father could do some research on Scandinavian art for a documentary. Aria blossoms and becomes a lot closer to her family. She even forgets about the terrible secret she's keeping from her mother. When she meets a cute new boy in town, things get complicated when she discovers out who Mr. Fitz really is...

Hanna is changed from head to toe, inside and out. As she is no longer "hefty Hanna," she and Mona, her best friend, enjoy their days shoplifting by day and partying at night. When Hanna gets caught by the police for the first time ever, her mom has to get involved. Then things with her boyfriend, Sean, turn sour. Slowly but surely, her life begins spiraling out of control as she resorts to her old ways of losing weight...

Spencer remains her typical competitive self; always trying to gain her parents approval, which is quite difficult with her perfect older sister, Melissa, hanging around. All Spence wants is some respect, independence, and the barn in the backyard to be hers. What she gets comes at a higher price when she starts to have feelings for Melissa's boyfriend Wren...

Only Alison knew all the girls' secrets, but she is gone. The girls are still being haunted by their old memories and ugly secrets by some furtive person named "A".

Pretty Little Liars is a delicious novel full of scandals and, of course, plenty of secrets. The mystery continues to unfold as this is just the first of eight in the series. Get caught up in the liars' torn and twisted worlds and try to uncover the mystery behind "A".

Sophie Kinsella

Most readers recognize the Confessions of a Shopaholic series as novels written by the author, Sophie Kinsella. In reality, however, these books are in fact written by Madeleine Wickham.

Born in London, Wickham began her career as a financial journalist just like Becky Bloomwood in the Shopaholic series. At the age of 24, she wrote her first novel titled The Tennis Party, which was the start of her career as a novelist.

Writing under her new penname, Sophie Kinsella, Wickham submitted to her current publishers, who immediately worked on getting Kinsella's works out into the public. The whole time, her editors never knew that Kinsella was actually already one of the publishers' authors. When her book, Can You Keep a Secret? came out, Wickham finally revealed her own secret.

This author has several novels written as Madeleine Wickham and several more as Sophie Kinsella, but all of them have been great successes written by one single woman. The Shopaholic series even led Wickham to the UK's bestseller list in 2000, and the first two novels were made into a movie.

Madeleine Wickham's penname story just goes to show that some secrets are indeed hard to keep!

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