Labels and brands are mentioned gratuitously, and generally mean nothing to me. And Hanna is preparing for best friend Mona’s ridiculously ostentations MTV-worthy birthday party, which doesn’t really seems as serious as the other issues but will no doubt lead to some exciting boy-related high-jinks and traumas.Įverything proceeds as usual. Emily is worrying about her combination of judgmental friends, racist and homophobic mother and black girlfriend, which are bound to collide at some point.

Aria is torn between her sexy, gorgeous boyfriend and the sexy, gorgeous teacher she slept with a few weeks ago. But in a shocking and unforeseen twist, the essay is one of those which she copied from her sister. Plot direction signposted, the story begins.Įveryone's current problems are as follows: Spencer’s teacher has submitted one of her essays for a nationwide competition. Also, it is indicated that all of a sudden we should suspect Spencer of murdering Alison, even though that wouldn’t make sense. What type of person considers a friend growing up “gawky”, “ugly”, “zitty” or a goth as a treachery? Surely I’m not meant to take seriously this weirdly skewed view of the world seen through a filter of pure, unadulterated judgemental bullying? And since it seems to be my type of people who are being judged, I feel a little awkward continuing with what is apparently a handbook for my natural enemies.Īlso, no idea what a “granola Outward Bound kid” is.Īt any rate, Shepard continues to remind us to take the friendship groups of 13-year-olds far too seriously, in order that the following story will make sense. “Have you ever had a friend turn on you? Just totally transform from someone you thought you knew into someone…else? I’m not talking your boyfriend from nursery school who grows up and gets gawky and ugly and zitty, … or even a girl in your clique who suddenly breaks away and turns goth or into one of those granola Outward Bound kids…” The adventures of our four unlikeable identikit bitches continue.įirst the now standard prologue, wherein the reader is addressed directly in a slanderous attempt to link their lives to those of the ridiculous idiots who populate these books:

Third pretty little liars book