Thursday, January 27, 2011

Unbelievable

“Don’t believe everything you hear.”

This next Pretty Little Liars book reveals some new information about the mystery behind A, and it is seriously unbelievable.

Things between Aria and her mother are still looking bad. Now that her mom knows the truth about Aria’s secret, she can’t even talk to her, let alone look at her. Because of A, Ezra is leaving, and her brother won’t even talk to her, either. Aria is forced to live with her father and Meredith in their cramped and creepy art-filled home. They encourage her to take an art course at the college, and Aria has partner in class she never would have imagined…

Hanna keeps going back to the day Ali went missing. She keeps trying to warn Ali about what will happen to her, but Ali keeps telling Han that she’s fine. When she finally wakes up from her dream, she can’t remember anything about Mona’s party. She doesn’t remember how Lucas saved her and she fell graciously into his arms. She doesn’t even remember the last text from A, which came from a phone number that looked very, very familiar…

The relationship between Spencer and her sister escalades, until their parents force the girls together to work out their differences. Spencer’s parents inform her that she will still go through with the Golden Orchid nomination, even though she stole her sister’s essay. The sisters come to an understanding and even begin to get along, but when Wilden comes to the Hastings’s house to question Melissa, Spencer worries if Ali’s killer was in front of her all along…

After Emily’s mom catches her with Maya, Emily is sent away to live with her aunt and uncle in a small, boring town in Iowa. Her cousins are so proper, polite, and innocent, that Em wonders how she will ever survive. When night comes, however, the cousins sneak out to a barn party where Emily meets Trista, a girl who looks eerily similar to her beloved Ali. After that, things with Maya seem very different, including the banana bubble gum smell…

While the girls try everything they can to help Hanna remember what she discovered about A, things become dangerously deadly when someone reveals all the threats the girls have been receiving. A warned them not to tell…

Unbelievable is yet another suspenseful novel from Sara Shepard that results in some shocking information about The Jenna Thing and, of course, the anonymity behind A.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Perfect

"It's not bragging if it's true."

Sara Shepard's Perfect reveals some shocking secrets that definitely prove nobody is perfect in Rosewood. Not even Spencer Hastings.

Spence begins going to a therapist, whom her mother calls, "the doctor". At first, she's a little apprehensive, especially because it is Melissa's therapist. Then after she goes through a session, she realizes she has found someone she can actually talk to about her irritable her sister really is. The one thing bothering her most is something that she can't reveal to anyone, even though she receives so much praise for it. Things become very strange when Spencer sees glimpes of a past she doesn't remember that has to do with Ali...

Emily lets her guard down and spends much more time with Maya. She definitely needs someone to talk to after the trauma she's been through. Swimming is going much better for her until something happens that she never imagined possible. Although she receives much more attention from the male population at school, things with her family have taken a turn for the worst. While being forced to become someone she's not, Em now has to worry about pleasing her parents in order to stay in Rosewood...

With Aria now in a steady relationship, she finally has someone to confess to about the terrible secret she's been holding on to. But since the cat is out of the bag, her mom hasn't been the same. Even after Aria tries to fight for her mom, she loses her home and is forced to move into her new boyfriend's house. All she ever wanted was to keep the relationship her family had when they were in Iceland. Ezra slowly works his way back into Aria's mind and things become a little bit easier to deal with...

Hanna always thought her life was perfect after she became friends with Mona. Now it's like a roller coaster ride with her best friend as the operator. Even after getting a helpful hint from A, Hanna still tries to hold onto their friendship and prepare for Mona's huge birthday party. Every time her life seems to be heading back in the right direction, someone pulls the carpet right out from under Hanna's feet. Her new friend, Lucas, comforts her, but she still hasn't heard from her dad, and A's texts become much more than threats...

While A was a little quite for a while, she came back with a forceful vengeance. The four girls' lives are falling apart with one secret revealed at a time, ending with a tragic accident no one sees coming.


Perfect brings along a shocking turn of events for the four best friends of Alison DiLaurentis.