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Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

26 reviews

madelinequinnee's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’m back in my Pretty Little Liars era, so I thought it was only fair I give the books a read. I really enjoyed this! It throws you off a bit to begin with if you watched the show first and the characters look very different to how they’re described in the book, but you get used to it eventually and this is a very enjoyable read. I loved the writing, it’s very descriptive and almost poetic at times, and the duel perspectives from each of the girls makes this really interesting. Can’t wait to read the rest of the series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

geooo's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? No

2.5

A book that is mediocre at its best. Nothing really happens during this novel. The character work and the plot are weak and the writing is not the best. There are also problematic elements such as pedophilia, substantial age gaps, teacher - student relationships. And judging by how the show and future books go the author doesn't care about these issues and even romanticizes them. Will not continue the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexism and Murder

pig_mania's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Minor: Homophobia

ariajb's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.25

maybe I’d of enjoyed it more if I was the target age demographic and hadn’t already seen most of the show, but, that was 7 hours of just episode one. not much of anything happened plot wise and when the main 4 girls weren’t having unaddressed panic attacks their personalities were kinda flat. it moved pretty slow and it felt like most of the book was dedicated to describing, in aggravating detail, what every single character was wearing, instead of the moving the plot forward or focusing on making the characters more… like able(??). but maybe that was on purpose to set the town of how people there acted and treated each other? either way it got on my nerves and dragged on for way too long

and besides the four main girls being shallow and bland their “love” interests were even worse ??? Ezra is a creep in the show, but he is so so much worse in the book. he initiates their relationship and then is the one to continue after finding out she’s a student and gets jealous and angry anytime he sees her with someone her own age. despite her showing how immature she actually is despite being “well traveled” and reading a bunch of plays or whatever

and he gets so angry when he sees the texts from A and throws a book at her head ??? while she’s crying ??? and apparently he doesn’t understand how to read texts because he tells her he saw what she “said about him” but they were texts someone was sending her not the other way around. but I’m supposed to like him?? ok

also I don’t know how old Wren is in the books but in the show he was 23… full grown medical student messing around with a 16/17 year old. He’s also the instigator in most of his interactions with Spencer but when it plays out she’s the one punished and seen as in the wrong. which she is for pursuing her sister’s boyfriend but she wasn’t the adult in the situation.

and her parents not seeing that way annoyed me, getting mad enough at her to not even comfort her when they got the news that Alison was dead just seemed cruel but not in the way the author intended.

also it didn’t help that I listened on audio and didn’t like the narrator but if I’d been reading a physical book I probably wouldn’t have finished it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Racism, Self harm, and Lesbophobia

katjuschae's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Self harm and Vomit

bookworm05's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Classism

wackzo's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

kitty_may12's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

as the first book in the series the mystery was set up pretty well, enjoyable. morally grey main cast of characters were just loveable enough for me to root for them.    

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Ableism and Drug use

meganffoster's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia and Racism

blume13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism and Lesbophobia

Minor: Vomit