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Pretty Little Liars: Burned Review
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Pretty Little Liars: Stunning Review
Spoilers ahead but you should know that already as the series’ house of lies build on each other.
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Interview with Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub has worked on several series together including Goddess Girls, Grimmtastic Girls, Thunder Girls, and Heroes in Training among others. I have actually been in touch with Suzanne Williams, a prolific children’s writer with hits such as Library Lil, Ten Naughty Monkeys, the Fairy Blossoms series for several years now. So it was great to get to a short interview her and her co-writer, Joan Holub (Might Dads/Moms, Little Red Writing) to discuss their careers, Greek mythology and upcoming news.
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Pretty Little Liars: Ruthless Review
Things get Shakespearean in this novel and is all toil toil, boil and trouble for Rosewoods prettiest liars whose guilt is eating them alive. And believe me, they have plenty to feel guilty for.
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Pretty Little Liars: Twisted Review
The Liars are back and so is A because Ali may be gone but the girls haven’t learned their lesson about keeping secrets.
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Summer Romances
Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the flux of Pride and Prejudice adaptations and wonder if there can be any new spin to the Jane Austen classic. Well Sonali not only brings a new spin but elevates the classic by further exploring the themes of classism that was in the original.
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Pretty Little Liars: Wanted Review
This is going to be a spoilery and short review as many of the events here were revealed in Ali’s Pretty Little Lies so the only ticking clock was waiting for the Liars to figure out the true killer themselves.
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Pretty Little Liars: Heartless Review
After the shocker of Ali reappearing and the Liars nearly dying, they are really in the need for someone on their side. But Rosewood isn’t inclined to give these girls any breaks. The media is now dubbing them the Pretty Little Liars (title drop!) and putting out polls that they helped Ian escape and worse- they killed Ali.
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Pretty Little Liars: Killer Review
The girls are playing a dangerous game but at least it seems like they are getting closer to the real killer(s). Buuuut we’re only halfway through the arc so who knows how they misinterpreted A’s cryptic clues this time. At least New A is having her fun destroying the girls’ personal lives because they’re too distracted to search properly.
Yet with how insane their lives are, who can blame them for wanting to take some me-time to focus on the things they could reasonably solve than Ali’s convulated murder.
Spencer thinks she has a way out of Rosewood when she meets her real mom, Olivia Caldwell. Just in time too as the Hastings take away most of Spencer’s priviliges and sells her car. Yeah I totally was on her side in just ditching the mysteries and the blackmails to move to NY. But she keeps getting dragged right back in thanks to Ian’s messages. If it really is Ian who is IM-ing her? The Liars are pretty sure they saw Ian’s dead body but since the corpse is missing, everyone is starting to doubt their credibility.
And the man leading the charge is Hanna’s mom’s ex bf. And here, I thought he was the only decent adult in Rosewood. HA! Officer Wilden seems to have a secret just like the rest of them. Though Hanna is pretty much on his side for the most of the book, until his suspicious actions and mounting evidence bring her to reconsider. For the most part, Hanna focuses on her social life. Which she is able to do thanks to her most sensible action, buying a new phone so A can’t contact her. But that’s her only reasonable action as she continues her redundent climb up the popularity ladder in her eternal war agains Kate. Which includes dating Mike Montgomery.
Aria Montgomery on the other is chasing someone else’s brother, Jason DiLaurentis! She’s finally acting on her old crush but is love making her blind to Jason’s potential anger issues, his murky medical past and his possible involvement in Ali’s murder. Emily’s experiencing the same problem in Aria’s opinion as she’s so prejudiced against Jason she won’t consider any other suspects.
But that’s the only boy she’s having problems. Her sweet romance with Isaac has sadly come to an end thanks to Isaac’s judgy too-close-for comfort mother who Isaac sides with rather than Emily’s side of the story. I knew it was too good to last but still. I mourn for the potential romance especially as it brings Emily back to her Ali pedestal obssession, why can’t she let her rest?
Now this seems like a lot but it also feels like a tie-over book. Lots of interesting things happening but clearly it is setting things up as well so it’s just solid. No big revelations or character development here but the ending is enough to make up for it. Killer ends with one of the biggest cliffhangers of them all. The Ian-Jason-Wilden conspiracy seems nothing compared to who rises from the ashes. But who it is?
I’m not A, I’m not spilling the book’s secret, you have to find out for yourself.
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Pretty Little Liars: Wicked Review
Last we left off the liars, everything was almost picture perfect. Sure Aria and Hanna’s families are in major shake ups due to a new pregnant step mom and new step-family respectively. And Spencer has permenantly tarnished her golden girl status by revealing her cheating scandal to the Golden Orchid board. And Emily is alone after cheating on Maya. But at least A is dead and Ali’s killer is behind bars. They can rest easy.
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