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Burned by Sara Shepard
1.0
Burned is book number four in the third arc of Pretty Little Liars. Honestly, I don't have much to say about this book.
Aria, Hanna, Emily, and Spencer are still being stalked by "A", the anonymous text messenger that is after them and out to destroy their lives. In Burned, the kids of Rosewood Day attend a cruise hosted by multiple schools around the area. The point of the cruise is to learn about the earth, using clean materials, etc. Of course, "A" has followed them onto the boat, and is still tormenting them about what happened that fateful night in Jamaica.
I only really had two problems with this book, though problems they were. First, of course, we have slut shaming. Emily's roommate on the cruise is from a religious private school, where Sara Shepard wrote all the girls as being overly promiscuous. Surprise, surprise. Emily's roommate's nickname is "Erin Bang Bang" because of how many people she's slept with. No one even refers to her by her real name, but instead by that, calling her "slutty" more than once. It's disgusting.
Speaking of disgusting, let's not forget how in the previous book, Hanna stalked her ex-boyfriend-now-turned-boyfriend-again's girlfriend of the time, Colleen. But in this book, Hanna refers to Colleen as "Mike's mistake."
I pray Sara Shepard really does not write any more of these books.
And so concludes Burned.
Aria, Hanna, Emily, and Spencer are still being stalked by "A", the anonymous text messenger that is after them and out to destroy their lives. In Burned, the kids of Rosewood Day attend a cruise hosted by multiple schools around the area. The point of the cruise is to learn about the earth, using clean materials, etc. Of course, "A" has followed them onto the boat, and is still tormenting them about what happened that fateful night in Jamaica.
I only really had two problems with this book, though problems they were. First, of course, we have slut shaming. Emily's roommate on the cruise is from a religious private school, where Sara Shepard wrote all the girls as being overly promiscuous. Surprise, surprise. Emily's roommate's nickname is "Erin Bang Bang" because of how many people she's slept with. No one even refers to her by her real name, but instead by that, calling her "slutty" more than once. It's disgusting.
Speaking of disgusting, let's not forget how in the previous book, Hanna stalked her ex-boyfriend-now-turned-boyfriend-again's girlfriend of the time, Colleen. But in this book, Hanna refers to Colleen as "Mike's mistake."
I pray Sara Shepard really does not write any more of these books.
And so concludes Burned.