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EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE - ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNA

Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished.

How do I know? Because I know everything about the bad girls they were, the naughty girls they are, and the dirty secrets they've kept. And guess what? I'm telling.

Pretty Little Liars Series by Sara Shepard will be one of our MMC GBRs for August 2022.

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Happy Reading Everybody

Pre-Reading Questions -

Anybody got any thoughts on this one before we start?

Has anyone read anything similar to this before?

Anybody read anything else by this author previously?

*crickets*

Pretty Little Liars

1%
(view spoiler)[ starting in 7th grade, and these kids are fat shaming Hannah pretty hard, idk why she's friends with them. (hide spoiler)]

12%
(view spoiler)[Icelandic Aria is a condescending bitch, she wants to act all grown up since she could do whatever she wanted over there but honey you aren't there still so calm down (hide spoiler)]

13%
(view spoiler)[ Icelandic Aria is also a liar and an underage drinker, and makes out with much older adults in the bathrooms of bars in the middle of the day. (hide spoiler)]

16%
(view spoiler)[ Hannah has an eating disorder, thanks friends for fat shaming her, and she has turned into a shop lifter even thou she has the money, tisk tisk. (hide spoiler)]

26%
(view spoiler)[ Wow Aria good job, the random dude you were kissing is now your teacher, interesting. The notes from A have started, and some "Friends" are kissing (hide spoiler)]

28%
(view spoiler)[ i'm always weirded out by Spencer's sister's boyfriend, like he walks in on Spencer naked a few times, and he is just like "i'm a doctor so this is fine" and Spencer hates her sister so she's all for it. (hide spoiler)]

30%
(view spoiler)[ Why would she giggle at "sack" is she a 12yr boy? (hide spoiler)]

33%
(view spoiler)[ Hannah you got caught, and mommy is gonna get you and the cop off. should have just bought the freaking items (hide spoiler)]

Used a different app to listen to Flawless so i have chapters instead of percentages

Chapter 2:(view spoiler)[ Gonna find out what they did to Peeping Tom Toby, and oh damn you got Jenna instead and you blinded her, bad A! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 3: (view spoiler)[just freaking tell your friends you like girls, idk why she let's A hold this over her, none if the other girls have shown any homophobia so why not take control from A and just tell your secret (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6: (view spoiler)[ highly doubt those drugs would just be out there, source: I work in a hospital. Also poor Spencer, you fucked around and now you're dealing with the consequences, I don't feel bad for you at all (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 8: (view spoiler)[shallow Aria here is saying that all the boys at this school can't read basically, sheesh, she's so freaking snobby (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 18:(view spoiler)[ Emily is trying to get herself a beard, should be honest with the dude if you're only going to use him to appear straight in public. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 29: (view spoiler)[ it makes no sense for it to be Toby. It makes WAY more sense for it to me Mona! It's freaking obvious (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 37:(view spoiler)[ poor Toby, killed himself, or so it seems, guess they shouldn't have just thrown out there that he did it, should have gotten some legit evidence and gone to the freaking police, but good job guys, you really solved the case and dealt with A...

then they get a text from A while they are seeing Toby's body, yep good job. (hide spoiler)]

Perfect

Introduction: (view spoiler)[hey now why are these girls picking on Jonny Deep 😔 hoping these girls will be smarter in this book considering how we left off with them killing Toby last book (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 2: (view spoiler)[holy fuck Aria stop bringing up Iceland, we get it you went to Iceland, wow look at you, remember why you went there thou?! because your father is a CHEATER, you shouldn't be so happy about Iceland! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 2 con't: (view spoiler)[ Erza smells like chili powder?? Wtf. also shouldn't he be more concerned about ruining his life by being with Aria, like she can't be worth this much trouble (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 8: (view spoiler)[ video of Alys last night. Shows how catty these girls really are, they're friends but not really friend, also shows her getting handsy with Ian, did he kill her? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 10:(view spoiler)[ oh no now people saw Emily kissing someone, hmmmm. she was so worried at that party, but now it's all good? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 13: (view spoiler)[oh gay camp, gonna fix the gay part of her, now I see why her parents couldn't know, doubt this will fix her. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 15:(view spoiler)[ "get ready to fart with Mona" guess who aren't friends anymore. Hannah should just go with Lucas and dumb Mona anyhow (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 19:(view spoiler)[ wait a second, she moved in with Shawn? how does that work? her parents let that happen?? (hide spoiler)]

End:(view spoiler)[ holy cow Hannah got hit but a car. (hide spoiler)]

Unbelievable

Chapter 2: (view spoiler)[ Spencer you just remembered how Ally said you read something in her diary, and yet you're like who could know so much about all of us. SOMEONE HAS ALLYS FREAKING DIARY! How can you be so smart yet so freaking stupid (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 3: (view spoiler)[well you're more safe on this farm Emily, gay fixing camp didn't work, so she's been exiled to Iowa, yet her cousins are some bad kids, sneaking out to a party and inviting Emily along, where she meets a new girl! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 12:(view spoiler)[ Emily runs away from the farm because she thinks her parents don't love her yet they filed a missing person report almost right away, yet they're the ones sending her away, all for kissing a girl. i do wonder how her aunt knew they went out. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 17: (view spoiler)[ fuck Hannah, Lucas deserves so much better than you and you're looking down on him, nah fuck that (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 18: (view spoiler)["how can she paint when she can't see?" Also fuck Aria. And Aria there is no way Jenna doesn't recognize your voice, you just talked to her earlier and she grew up with you, you're a freaking idiot thinking otherwise. smh. (hide spoiler)]

Wicked

Introduction:(view spoiler)[ fancy bikes you got there in 6th grade, and now you have a time capsule to out things into, also every time Hannah says her hair is "poop" brown I cringe, there is so much better adjectives you can use for that (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 3:(view spoiler)[ here's Aria bringing up Iceland again, also why can't their mom date, their dad is literally living with his girl so what's stopping mom from getting out there (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 4:(view spoiler)[ yes Spencer you're so important and shit that Andrew would have a voodoo doll of you to ensure he is top of the class. Makes sense (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 7: (view spoiler)[Spencer's grandma dies and she cares about is if she gets money in the will 😅 which she did not so ha! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 7 continued: (view spoiler)[ Melissa won't testify against Ian because she doesn't want to admit how obvious she was to his relationship with Ally.

Dude Ally is FREAKING DEAD, get over yourself and testify against her maybe KILLER. Why are these girls so dense??? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 9:(view spoiler)[ oh yah now I remember, the girls think Ian killed Ally over the dumb time capsule game, like that makes sense. Ian is like 3 or 4 yrs older than them and just because Ally said "over my dead body" to him, it all makes sense. DENSE (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 18:(view spoiler)[ holy shit Ian was in 12th grade when they were in 7th, nvm, this dude has issues, he probably did kill he (hide spoiler)]

Killer

Chapter 3:(view spoiler)[ Glad there's this make out scene between Emily and Isaac, adds to the plot a lot. Where did Ian's body go, and all the evidence?! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6: (view spoiler)[Aria you're not that important, you noticed he was staring at the tv before he walked away, yet you think he left because he didn't want to turn you down? You honestly think this dude completely changed his plans (he was heading into the city) just because you asked him to ride with him and he didn't want to say no?! Da fuck Aria. Da fuck (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 10:(view spoiler)[ Ian Elizabeth. Spencer's parents are so shitty. Spray painted doors and windmill. like i legit don't get why Spencer's parents are just fucking up her life so much, selling her car? why so you have to taxi her around now, you played yourself parents (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 12: (view spoiler)[ you're saying a grown ass adult cut a teenagers head off a picture, like why would they be that petty or whatever. maybe it was Isaac? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 18:(view spoiler)[ like I don't get why Hannah even wants to be with Mike, he's Aria's little brother, so Aria shouldn't be okay with this, he makes sexist jokes constantly, says shit about Hannah's boobs constantly, like why would super cool Hannah be with him? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 27:(view spoiler)[ way to have some self respect Hannah, you were part of a bet! and you still want to be with Mike!? what, no girl, no!(view spoiler)[

Chapter 31:(view spoiler)[ oh shit it's Ally back from the dead, or so we think? (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

Heartless

Chapter 2: (view spoiler)[so guess Aria just saved a "hallucination" from the fire in the woods, and someone all 4 girls saw said hallucination, makes sense cops, makes sense! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6: (view spoiler)[wait a second, Emily and Isaac talked last book about his mom and the pic and basically made up and now Emily is acting like that didn't happen, she says he's still mad at her and she needs to wash his ick off her. Hmmm (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6 continued: (view spoiler)[guess she meant she didn't care that he apologized, because she was so mad at him, but idk all Hannah did was call out his mom, saying she was nuts for cutting up the pic, which she was but idk why she should be mad at him still. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 14: (view spoiler)[so you're saying you can just show up at an Amish person's farm/house and they just accept you can put you to work 🤔 she doesn't know how to milk cows, doesn't know how to speak Penn. Dutch, and yet they're just like "oh well get to work", interesting. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 16:(view spoiler)[ yah Hannah don't believe that your roommate at this place is crazy just because the person who told you is chubby, makes sense. Hannah is in a mental hospital for her eating disorder. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 21:(view spoiler)[ cop used to be amish and his amish gf is missing, hmmm (hide spoiler)]

Wanted

Chapter 1: (view spoiler)[you'd think the FBI would be called in at this point, also these girls should know this is all way too convenient. like how many dead bodies are piling up around this town and such a short period time, if anything you'd think the town would be out witch hunting the girls. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 3:(view spoiler)[ just when I thought I couldn't hate Hannah more, skid marks really, and you just scoot away and don't even believe him, ugh. she's so quick to drop him and even makes fun of him on top of all this shit, and i can bet he'll take her back after some lame ass "i'm sorry" from Hannah. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 4: (view spoiler)[oh yah twin sister plot. idk how they would have kept a twin sister from everyone for so long, or how would Ally keep it from her best friends either. Their father clearly knew, so when one of their damn kids shows up dead, you'd think they'd announce the twin right away. it just doesn't make sense at all! ugh. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 13: (view spoiler)[ she just told you she was reading the diary so you can't believe shit she says still, God these girls. so is this Ally or Courtney, guess we'll never know. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 31: (view spoiler)[ yah Ally was totally still in that building that's now on fire and blew up. (hide spoiler)]

I have some of these. I'll do my best to read.