Ali's Pretty Little Lies

Ali's Pretty Little Lies is the prequel to Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars series.

Before there was A, there was Alison DiLaurentis.  Boys wanted to date her, girls wanted to be her, and somebody wanted her dead...

It's the end of seventh grade, and Alison DiLaurentis and her friends are the girls of Rosewood Day.  Ali runs the clique with an iron fist, and she's got enough dirt on Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer to keep them in line.  But Ali's hiding a dark secret of her own, something so huge it would destroy everything if it got out.  She's desperate to keep the perfect life she's worked so hard to build, but in Rosewood deadly secrets have deadly consequences...

Set in the weeks leading up to Ali's murder, this special Pretty Little Liars tale is told by the prettiest little liar of all: Ali herself.  For the first time ever, we see how the mystery began... and how Alison DiLaurentis's life ended.

The Breakdown:
1.  This book is a complex tangle of lies that Ali has carefully placed to keep her perfect life.  She finds out secrets about her friends, and holds it over them to keep them close.  She sits up blackmail situations for them.  She really is a horrible person.  I am honestly not even a little sad when she dies at the end.

2. As much as Ali loves knowing others secrets, it is her that is keeping the biggest secret of all.  She is not who she says she is.  And in becoming Ali, she becomes the person she hates the most.

3.  I just don't think I can continue reading this series.  All the lies, backstabbing, and manipulations gets old real quick. I just don't find myself liking the characters, and most of the time when bad things happen to them, I don't feel sorry for them at all.

To Read or Not to Read:
Don't Bother

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If I Should Die
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