Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Lying just to Lie: Pretty Little Liars


Wicked: A Pretty Little Liars Novel by Sara Shepard

Spoilers for The first books: The four ex-best friends thought that all of their troubles were over since they found out who A was and Ian was in jail for murdering their best friend Ali.  But there are at least 6 more books left in  the series, so I guess trouble will follow these girls wherever they go.

In Wicked, there was a consistent theme that went back before any of these girls were friends, before Ali picked them to be in her special group, the day that Ali announced that she was going to get a piece of the Time Capsule Flag.  This distant memory came back to the minds of all four of the girls, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer.  They each had a distinct perspective on what took place that day, but all four of them remember Ian Thomas saying that he was going to kill Ali for her piece of the flag. 

If you forced me to rate this book, I would probably give it 2.5 out of 5 stars.  It was ok.  I’ve read three of these books in the last couple of weeks and I’m tired.  I don’t think they were meant to read one after the other.  Shepard is constantly reminding us of things that just took place which feel like they just happened.  I bet 25% of the book was her telling us what happened in the last book.  I know that it’s nice to have a reminder just in case it’s been a while since you read the last book, but it got on my nerves with this series. 

I have the next three books on my shelf so I know I will get that far, but these books will have to be free or dang cheap for me to continue after that.  I have a lot of reading to do and very little time to do it in.  Keep Reading my Friends!