Thursday, January 7, 2010

Flawless by Sara Shepard



Title:
Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2)
Author: Sara Shepard
Published: February 2008 by HarperTeen

My Rating: 4 stars
Tags: YA | Girls | Series (Book Two)
Includes: Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Drug Abuse, Homosexuality

First Lines: Spencer Hastings stood on the apple-green lawn of the Rosewood Abbey with her three ex-best friends, Hanna Marin, Aria Montgomery, and Emily Fields.



*This review may contain spoilers for those of you that haven't read the first book in the series, Pretty Little Liars.*

The novel picks up from the very last scene that the first book stopped at. Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily are at their former bestfriend's funeral...Ali DiLaurentis, who was the manipulative queen bee of the group. However, even though Ali's dead, the four girls are consistently getting e-mails, letters, and texts from someone named "A". This anonymous person knows deep dark secrets about each girl, and is now threatening and blackmailing them with this information.

Sara Shepard's novel is very interesting and never left me bored once. With alternating points of view of each of the four girls, each one has a different story and personality, yet they all harmonize each other. I sympathized with some characters, and grew a strong hatred towards certain other minor characters in the book. Each one has secrets the others don't know about, that unlike in the first book which was sketchy, are starting to get finally revealed!

While the story seems realistic with every-day problems that some teens face like cheating parents, bad breakups with boyfriends, eating disorders, etc. there was one thing I kept thinking that felt really wrong. All of the parents in the book! They seem so heartless and uncaring, and I know even when parents are infuriated with their kids for a mistake they did - they still love them! I find it hard to believe that the parents would be this mean and unforgiving for a mistake their daughter made, even after she apologized.

Yet again, the author starts each chapter off with making sure the reader always knows what the character's outfit is, and I surprisingly like it! Her acute eye for detail is a nice touch, and I can always very easily imagine what's going on. Sure, this might be similar to those girly-clique series about a group of girls who are rich and popular; except that all of those are missing one key thing: suspense. But THIS series has it! Especially the last few chapters when the climax and great ending started just bubbling over. I was making fast predictions in my head about who "A" was and what would happen next, I was usually wrong! Not a predictable book, I'll say that.

From location 2301-2 on the Kindle [there aren't page numbers]:
The night smelled delicious, like pine needles and oncoming rain. The moon was huge and full, and thick clouds began to roll in. It was so quiet outside, Emily could hear the car's tires slapping along the pavement.

Sara Shepard's writing is so enjoyable, with a mix of sarcasm from the girls, great details, a suspenseful and addicting plot, and of course juicy gossip and deep secrets! This is a perfect book and series for older girls, but I wouldn't recommend it to young teens because of mature themes in it. I am so excited to read the next in the series, "Perfect"!


Book Supplied by: The e-book on my Kindle! :)

11 comments:

  1. I love Sara Shepard. She's so great. :]

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  2. Nice review! You definitely need to read Perfect soon, it's so good. I love this series :)

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  3. omg i absolutly luv luv luvv thhis series and cant wait to finish:)

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  4. Thanks for the review. I started reading Sara Shepard's first Pretty Little Liars book and then I think I had a few too many other reads going at the same time and I never finished. Great motivation to get the series going once again!

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  5. hehe, nice cover, it's different in Romania. I will read the books as soon as i'll finish the current book .

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  6. i love her books. expecilly the pretty little liars!!!!! omg so good.

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  7. What was the climax??

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  8. Do you think the climax is when Toby dies?

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  9. what is the conflict and resolution?

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