Pretty Little Liars #6: Killer

This used to be one of my favorite series. I'm not sure why I read it anymore. I think it could have been wrapped up really neatly in one or two books, and now it's been spun out too far.

Book review by Bryn, posted by CA Library:"Killer by Sara Shepard is the sixth book in the Pretty Little Liars series. The narrative mode is 2nd person. It is mystery. The protagonists of this story are Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily. This story starts when the girls were in sixth grade and on of their best friends, Ali, was tragically murdered. After Ali got murdered, the girls all receiving text messages from an anonymous someone who signed all the texts “-A”. The girls are now juniors in high school, and still receiving texts from “A”. When the girls first starting getting the texts, they were just signed “A” and nothing more. The girls thought it was just some random person who wasn’t even in the same state as them. But as the years went on, “A” was sending texts that could tell the girls were definitely being watched. But not from a distance. The girls spent four years trying to figure out who “A” was. They still hadn’t found out. And the texts continued, but now, the texts are getting threatening. The girls are getting close to finding out who “A” is but they need more clues. And that’s where the story ended. Killer by Sara Shepard, was such a good book. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a good mystery. Overall, I give this book four and a half out of five stars."

 This was, by far, the most emotional Pretty Little Liars book yet. Infact one part made me cry. Killer is about the four girls, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria, trying to figure out how the hell Ian's dead body disappeared. They saw it in the woods and ran to get Wilden the cop assigned to keep guard on a party. But when they got back, there was no body. the police searched for days and couldn't find anything. Now, it's up to the girls to figure out what happened. Did Ian play a trick on them to distract the cops so he could get out of town? That would be the logical explanation to his disappearance and the sketchy IMs Spencer has been recieving. but, the girls are too hung up in their own problems to figure out what went wrong. Hanna's battling with her step sister over Mike Montgomery, Aria's brother, and causing more drama than there needs to be. Aria's dating Jason Dilaurentis, and then finds out that he was a patient in a mental hospital and may be connected to Ali's murder. Emily's being shunned out of her boyfriends house after being caught in his bedroom by his mother, and now that his mom hates her she doesn't know what to do. And, of course Spencer and her so called "mommy" just met after being spereated for over 17 years. BUt it really her mom or did "A" set up an other on of their conniving, sick little games?Spencer's story is just so sad, it made me cry. She just found out she was adopted and now she finally reconnected with her biological mother! She is everything she dreamed she would be, and she got so excited that someone actually loves her that she buys a house right down the street from her. But, she then finds out that her "mom's" address was fake and that the realtor that she bough tthe house from doesn't exist, so she checks into her bank account only to find out that her balance is 0$. Did her mom cheat her out of her money, or was this just a big misunderstanding??At the end of the book, there is a huge twist! it is so big and completely changes the mood of the book. I'm not even going to give you a hint on what it is because i was completely in awe when i read the very last sentence. This was the major reason why i gave this book a 4.5/5 stars. it was absolutely exhilarating, and every page captivated me. I am so excited to go into school tomorrow and check out the next book in the series, Heartless, to see what happens.Once again Sarah Shepard amazes me with her talent in writing and ability to create a massive amount of tension in just one sentence, which you will see when you read this wonderful book!

If your a fan of the series, it's a great book in the series. Spencer is in a romance with Andrew, her long-time rival, while exploring the posssibility of being adopted since her Grandmother's will only included "natural birthed" grandchildren. Emily gets confused with her new boyfriend Issac's Mom's reactions. Aria is trying to avoid her Mom and her new boyfriend who's into her. Hanna is forced to bond with her step-sister Kate while trying to get Mike Montgomery, Aria's younger brother. While all this is going on, Ian suddenly doesn't seem so dead or so guilty and they get one more step closer to finding out what really happened to Ali. The media is hounding the, as is A, and possibly other people... Full of surprises and the cliff-hanger ending just leaves you wanting more. Was it smoke inhalation? Sara Shepard does kind of drag this on and really uses this book as a continuation of the plot and the only really important parts are the thigs that happen with Jason, Wilden, and the fire. The drama is nice, but some of it's just kind of there.

Knowing how many of these books there are; I was worried going into this one, the sixth, that the tension wouldn't be as great as it had been in earlier novels. And it's not. I get the feeling Sara Shepard is now trying to drag out what was originally a good idea and it's just becoming more and more implausible. At the start; it was believable. Four girls, haunted by messages from their dead best friend with no idea what was going on. But now, it's all about a massive conspiracy. Ali is alive and Wilden, the cop, is a bad guy; who I suspected from page one of this novel. If he was meant to come off as anything other than a creep in this book, I didn't get it.More annoyingly, the parents get worse. Aria's afraid to tell her mother that her boyfriend is a pervy creepy because she thinks her mother will be mad at her. A normal mother, which Ella is shown to be, would most definitely NOT pick a new man over her own child, let alone a creepy one who tries to hit on Aria. Spencer's parents, more specifically her mother, are hideous to her. Laughing when something goes wrong for her; enjoying her pain. Like a mean sister, not a parent.Hanna's father doesn't believe a word she says yet takes everything his step-daughter says as Gospel. I don't believe that. Especially since it's pointed out many times in each book that Hanna and her father once had a very close relationship.Emily's parents seem to be the only normal ones, but they aren't in book 6 very much, and we still have 3 more to go.Now I'm starting to worry the story is going to try and advance on itself, become bigger and bigger than it was originally going to be and thus creating an utterly unrealistic story that started out with so much promise. A, or whoever it is sending the messages, is now everywhere. Telling Spencer she's adopted, setting her up to meet her fake-real mother in NY and buy a fake apartment, thus losing all her money. So A has to have some sort of business going on. No longer is it a mean girl dishing out the dirt on her former friends; which was the appeal of the books in the first place. Now it's turning into something else, and I for one do not like it.

It was very well written. It kept you on the edge of your seat.4Q, 5P; Cover Art: Awesome!This book is best suited for Middleschoolers on up.It was selected because it looked like an interesting read.Grade (of reviewer): 11thSN-AHS-NC

The suspense and mystery continues in the sixth book of the Pretty Little Liars series. The four girls still don't know who killed their friend and they think that maybe this time A is trying to help them, but they don't really know who to trust.

In Killer, the girls are still being tracked by new “A” and still following clues to find Ali’s real killer. This is a transitional book in the series. There are only two books left and we are building up to the final conclusion. In this book, the girls have their own personal dramas that they are dealing with. These are interesting stories, but the “A” plot does not progress as much as usual.The girls have lost the trust of the police so they are on their own researching Ali’s killer. “A” is still around providing clues and causing mischief. Hanna gets a new iphone and number so “A” can not reach her. Why wouldn’t they all change their number?Spencer suspects she was adopted and goes in search of her real mother. Spencer is not one of my favorites but I felt so bad for her in this storyline. Emily and Isaac’s relationship is progressing, much to the outrage of Isaac’s mother. Not sure what that is about, is she a suspect? It doesn’t seem like this is going anywhere. Hanna gets a crush on an adorable younger man at school, and evil stepsister-to-be Kate continues her mind games with Hanna. Meanwhile, Aria acts on her long-time infatuation with (another) older man. The connection between Jason, Wilden, Melissa and Jenna is looking more suspicious. All of them seem to be suspects – could they have killed Ali?The ending is a huge game-changing cliffhanger! What is going to happen next in Heartless? I can’t wait to find out.

it was really good, and it made you want to keep reading and made you want more