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[queenrisa14]

Checkmate.

What can I say about this chapter....Oh it’s full of twists and turns and angst and I’m sorry if it sucks or doesn’t meet expectations? Also this is probably the fastest I’ve updated XD XD

Hope you guys enjoy and I’m sorry if I broke any dreams over theories!!

[whyareader]

Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family

”She’s gone, but she’s everywhere.”

― Pretty Little Liars, episode one.

After their friend Alison goes missing, friends Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Spencer Hastings, and Emily Fields begin to drift apart without her to hold them together. However, they are drawn back together when a year later each girl begins receiving threatening messages from a mysterious person known only as “A”.

“A” knows secrets only Alison could know, but just as the girls are sure it must be her, Alison’s body is discovered buried in her parents backyard.

The girls must then go to extraordinary lengths to keep their secrets while attempting to uncover “A’s” identity and what they have to do with Alison’s death.

Rating: 3/5

I was hesitant to watch Pretty Little Liars, but I’d heard a lot of hype and my roomate swore it was engaging if not good, so I gave it a try.

The characters are kind of stereotypical archetypes: Spencer is the overachiever, Hanna is the it-girl dumb blonde, Aria’s is the artistic sensitive one, and Emily is the jock. Of all of them, Spencer is probably my favourite. Besides being really smart, she’s really driven and good at rallying the others when they’re freaking out. She’s given a little more dimension by the fact that her sister’s even more of an overachiever so she’s always second best in her family, but she doesn’t let that stop her from trying to be number one.

However, it’s the plot is mostly what drives this show. The mystery is intriguing from the get go and just when you think you know everything it throws something new at you.

I won’t say I loved it, but I can certainly see why teens would with all the high drama and hot boys. It also gets points from me for being based on a book series and thus potentially encouraging reluctant readers who are fans to pick up the source material.

Appeal-Factors: Angst-filled, High-drama, Menacing, Compelling, Plot-driven, and sarcastic.

Awards:

2012 Teen Choice Award: Choice TV Show: Drama

Nominated for 2012 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association: Outstanding Drama Series

2012 People’s Choice Awards: Favorite Cable TV Drama

2011 Teen Choice Award: “Choice Summer TV Show”

2010 Teen Choice Awards for “Choice Summer TV Show”

Suggested for: grades 10 and up.

Suggested Book-talking Hook: What if you were being blackmailed by a dead girl?

Read-alikes:

Pretty Little Liars by by Sara Shepard and the Gossip Girl TV show.

Cochran-Neilan, L. (2010). Pretty Little Liars [Television series]. Burbank: ABC Family.

[scarsandspectacles]

I am SO upset.

She's dead. She cannot survive an accident like that. That is how this kid I know died. She is so dead or in a coma forever.