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Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
3.0

Characters
We are all used to the show and how the characters act and look like on there. In the books a lot of things about that are different. They have different hair colors, some of them smoke, etc. I didn’t like Hanna in this book while I do like her in the show. She is like your typical blonde popular girl while in the show we don’t see that side of her too much. I thought all the characters worked out pretty good, they weren’t shallow.

Writing, story, etc
A lot of what happened in this book had to do with the girls boyfriends and they bf-troubles. We read about Hanna and Sean, Emily and Ben (and Maya), about Aria and Ezra and how he read through her texts (!). There also the SpencerxWren storyline going on. Wren was totally different in the book than he is in the show. I feel like if I had read these books before I become a fan of the show I wouldn’t have like Wren at all. The story is not slow but I wouldn’t say it’s quick paced either. Every chapter covers another girl until the end when they come together. This first book is like the first episode of the show but with more details etc. I’m curious for the other books how that will go.