Pretty Little Liars

All I have to say is...uh oh!

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Back in the day...WAY back in the day, I enjoyed reading the Sweet Valley Twins series. And then I graduated to the Sweet Valley High series. Only, I wasn't quite ready for Sweet Valley High back in the day, and I was sort of scandalized by it. I think I was pretty young, maybe twelve or thirteen...so I didn't read a whole lot in the series.

I think Pretty Little Liars is Sweet Valley High on speed. Oh it is scandalous.

Maybe you've seen that Jean Claude Van Damme movie that was so bad it was good. You know exactly what I am talking about. It's sort of a disaster of a movie and you are laughing, but probably for all the wrong reasons, and yet it was entertaining and you thoroughly enjoyed it.

That's sort of how I feel about Pretty Little Liars. Sort of. The writing is just fine - not great but whatever. It's more about the mystery. These four girls start getting mysterious texts, emails and notes from a mysterious "A" who knows all of their shameful secrets. It's the shameful secrets that remind me of the Van Damme movies...ridiculously over the top. As are the descriptions of what every character wears at any time ever in the book...think lots of designer brands and such and you get the idea. It's just a little (a lot) too much.

But anyway, who is this mysterious "A"? Is it their old friend Ali, the girl who went missing several years ago? Is it someone they hurt in the past, someone now seeking revenge? None of the four girls knows, and they are freaked out about it, of course...worried about who might tell everyone their secrets.

Oh, and by the way, not only do we not know who "A" is, we don't know exactly what happened several years ago when Alison disappeared, or, for that matter, some drama dealing with a girl named Jenna. I seriously HATE not knowing what comes next or what went on in the past!!!

I've been sucked in, and it is too late for me now. Curse you Jami Jensen...why did you have to recommend this?

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