Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars By Sara Shepard

Over the summer I read the realistic fiction book Pretty Little Liars the first book in the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard. This book is about four girls Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily who all live in Rosewood Pennsylvania. They were also friends with a girl named Alison. Alison was the leader out of all of them, but only Spencer was the one that wasn’t afraid of her. Aria was quiet, Hanna wanted to be like Alison, and Emily was lost in her own problems. All the girls trusted Alison; with all of their secrets.

A main external conflict was that it wasn’t until the day that they found Alison’s body. After three years of being missing, and the girls separating, the four friends went to Alison’s funeral and got a mysterious message from ‘A’. The mysterious ‘A’ was just like Alison; she knew of all their secrets. ‘A’ was following the girls every move, they knew everything. But before Alison disappeared she made bracelets for all the girls so they would all remember that they would keep each others secrets and the biggest secret between their friendships for as long as they lived. And even ‘A’ knew about that. As they were trying to keep there biggest secret by blaming Toby Cavanaugh for the Jenna thing, the secret started to unravel. As they try to hide ‘A’ more and more the more secrets that are being told.

Eventually the girls thought that ‘A’ was Alison’s killer but secrets that ‘A’ knew showed that it wasn’t. “A’ didn’t’ just know the secrets Ali knew but they also knew the secrets that the girls were making at that very moment, they were watching them, they could have been in their school, or maybe even their friends. ‘A’ was right in front of them.

The story goes back and forth between Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily. In the begging of each book and sometimes in the beginning it shows a part of an event when Alison as still alive and as if she still was. I would recommend this book because it is suspenseful, exciting and full of secrets and drama. Anyone that likes secrets and drama should read this series.