Pretty Little Liars #8: Wanted audiobook

¡Vaya final que le ha dado Sara Shepard a este arco!Ha sido la novela de la saga que más me ha sorprendido en cuanto a la trama sobre A, Alison y las chicas. Está llena de misterio, giros en la trama y sobre todo, esa esencia de los primeros libros: inocencia y putadas de instituto. Ha sido una mezcla extraña, pero una mezcla perfecta.Todo el tema Alison-Courtney me ha dejado de piedra. Cuántas sorpresas y qué bien hilado está todo, de verdad. Me ha gustado mucho también ver a personajes secundarios tomar un poco más de importancia, pues gracias a ciertos acontecimientos, se la merecen.Las cuatro protagonistas me han gustado mucho, así como sus historias en esta octava novela. No se me ha hecho una novela pesada en ningún momento, y sin duda, creo que es ya mi favorita de todas las que he leído. Aunque, eso sí, aún me quedan otras ocho... ¡Qué ganas de continuar con la saga!

Wanted (Pretty Little Liars #8), Sara ShepardAria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer are shocked to learn of the existence of Alison's twin sister, Courtney, when she's introduced at a press conference. Courtney had spent her life in institutions due to "health issues" and her existence was kept secret by her family. It is revealed that Jason was not a patient at the Radley but instead he was visiting Courtney. She was finally released and went home to Rosewood, where she attempts to resume her sister's life and begins tentative friendships with Ali's old friends. She later reveals that she's actually Ali, the real Courtney had pretended to be her on the night of Ali's disappearance, and she was the one who was killed. When she had tried to tell her family who she was, they didn't believe her because Courtney was notorious for pretending to be Ali, and sent her back to the institution in Courtney's place. The girls are thrilled that Ali is back, and jump at the chance to go with her to the family's house in the Poconos after a school dance.On the way there, Spencer gets a frantic call from her mother telling her that Melissa has disappeared. Spencer had begun to believe that her sister was the one who killed Ali and that she may be after the rest of them, but once they arrive at the house it's revealed that Ali is the killer. They discover that the girl they were friends with years ago was actually Courtney, and the real Ali was stuck in an institution. She had killed Courtney for ruining her life, attempted to kill the girls in the forest fire, tried to have them arrested, and is now going to kill them by setting the house on fire.They're able to escape after stumbling onto Ian's body hidden in a closet and releasing a bound Melissa, who Ali had kidnapped and was planning to kill as well. Ali is trapped inside the house and it's assumed she died in the fire, although her body is never found.After learning that her ex-husband shipped Hanna off to a mental institution, Ashley Marin transfers back to Rosewood and kicks Hanna's father, Isabel and Kate out of the house, thrilling Hanna. Hanna and Mike get back together.Meredith goes into labor, giving birth to a girl named Lola. Aria and Noel get back together after it is revealed that Ali kissed him, not the other way around, and Ella breaks up with Xavier after learning of his inappropriate behavior towards Aria.Spencer's father proclaims that even though he and her mother may not get back together, things are going to change for the better in their family, and Spencer and Melissa grow closer after almost being killed.Emily buries everything she can find that reminds her of Ali at Courtney's grave, hoping she can finally find closure, but is unsure of whether the noises she hears at the cemetery are real or imagined. And somewhere, a new girl starts her senior year at an anonymous school, a girl whose name just so happens to be an anagram of Alison DiLaurentis. The reader is left wondering if Alison is alive.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و نهم ماه اکتبر سال 2016 میلادیعنوان: تحت تعقیب: کتاب هشتم از سری دروغگویان زیباروی کوچک؛ نویسنده: سارا شپرد؛ مترجم: شادی رستمی انجوانی؛ تهران، به پوشش، 1394؛ شابک: 9786009554539؛ در 283 (293) ص؛این سری از کتابها داستانی جوان پسند دارند و به شرح ماجرای زندگی چهار دختر جوان که با یکدیگر دوست هستند، می‌پردازد. آنها یک دشمن مشترک دارند و این فرد سعی می‌کند حول یک موضوع مشترک آنها را آزار دهد تا این‌که سرانجام مسبب مرگ یکی از این چهار نفر می‌شود و این موضوع داستان را وارد فاز تازه‌ ای می‌کند: از قدیم گفته اند در هر عکسی هزار حرف ناگفته وجود دارد. مثلا یک دوربین امنیتی عکسی از یک زن زیبای موخرمایی برمیدارد که با دستبند تیفانی گرانقیمتی بر دست، به سرعت ساختمان را ترک میکند. یا دوربین یک پاپاراتزی از رابطهٔ یک ستارهٔ جوان و تازه به دوران رسیده با کارگردانی متاهل پرده برمیدارد. اما عکسها نمیتوانند به شما بگویند آن دختر در یک جواهری لوکس فروشنده است و دستبند را برای رییسش میبرده یا آنکه آن کارگردان ماه قبل تقاضای طلاقش را به جریان انداخته است. راجع به یک عکس خانوادگی چه میتوان گفت؟ برای مثال یک عکس از مادر، پدر، خواهر و برادر که نیششان را تا بناگوش باز کرده اند، و در ایوان خانه ای مجلل که اغلب تزیینات ویکتوریایی دارد، کنار هم بنشسته اند. حالا از نزدیکتر نگاه کنید. خندهٔ پدر کاملا زورکی است، نگاه مادر به خانهٔ همسایهٔ سمت چپی متمایل شده، یا شاید هم دارد خود همسایه را دید میزند، برادر چنان به نرده ها چسبیده، که کم مانده آنها را بشکند، و خواهر لبخند مرموزی بر لب دارد انگار که دارد راز شیرینی را پنهان میکند. نیمی از حیاط پشتی بوسیله بولدوزر زرد غول پیکری درب و داغان شده، و انگار کسی در پس زمینهٔ عکس مخفی شده، و به انتظار نشسته، در ظاهر کسی نیست اما تصویر محوی از موهای بلوند، و پوست مهتابی اش به چشم می‌آید. او یک پسر است یا...یک دختر؟ ا. شربیانی

Got a secretCan you keep it?Swear this one you'll saveBetter lock it, in your pocketTaking this one to the graveIf I show you then I know youWon't tell what I saidCause two can keep a secretIf one of the m is dead… so this is it?? this is finally over?the whole PLL series made my world turn upside down , after i finished reading each book in the series i always come up with my own theories on who is A and who murdered Alison but sadly none of my theories is correct. not even one of them is correct ... this last book gave me the creeps and it is seriously twisted.. i feel like i am watching single white female... who would have thought ALI KILLED ALI ... i mean seriously?? i never saw that one coming! it's actually nice that the clues given in the series is connected until the end of the book. after reading this book. i finally understood what the "sibling problems" Ali is pertaining to, i have it all wrong the first thing that pop in my mind is incest... after reading this book all the clues and "reading between the lines messages" is finally deciphered and revealed and honestly saying it kinda gave me goosebumps when everything is explained.. *shivers*i'm happy everything turned out well for the four girls ...and BTW Courtney is a freaking evil genius!!! 4 more books to be published by sara Sheperd in continuation of the PLL series i honestly don't know how can the author will continue the story when everything is so happy,so perfect,so flawless for the four girls I'm guessing that maybe this time there is a new set of girls to be terrorized. to those who are so itching to know who murdered alison and who is A you can read the ishpoilers below: (view spoiler)[ Alison dilaurentis actually has a twin sister, her twin sister Courtney has a mental illness and the dilaurentises decided to confine her in a psychiatric ward cause she is getting worse,she keeps on having violent behavior and keep on saying that she is alison but unfortunately Ali's mom mistakenly thought that Alison is courtney since she is wearing her pinky ring with the initial "c" even though Alison hardly insist that she is not COurtney her mom doesn't believe her. so yeah Alison was the one sent to a psychiatric ward and Courtney took over Alison's life....Alison was so mad at her sister that at the night of the slumber party she shoved courtney to the pit.hence killing courtney. she is supposed to bury her in the pit and get her life back but Ian and Melissa suddenly shown up drunk on their backyard. so A is MONA (revealed in book 4)2nd A is Alison (revealed in book 8)they both got access to the 4 girls' secret cause of Courtney's diary. (hide spoiler)]:)["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

** spoiler alert ** ****minor spoilers, but not the BIG secrets*****Snap! what a perfectly creepy ending to this addictive series. I was kind of sad to see it end, but there is no way it could have been drawn out much longer. all the answers to the question you didn't know you should be asking were served up in this finale. This whole series is filled with so many twist, I thought I had it figured out and by the middle of the book I was so pleased with myself for figuring it all out, until the ending came. I couldn't believe how wrong I had been, even though I was right. That probably makes no sense if you haven't read this, but if you have you are saying "EXACTLY!!!!".Now that I'm done with the series I have a couple of nagging comments.First, how about the fact that so many of the story lines were just dropped when it became irrelevant to "A" or "Ali's" murder. If they would have been cleared up I would have felt a little less strung along. Like Wilden and his old amish lifestyle and the missing ex-girlfriend as well as some erratic behavior (I personally don't think the fact the he knew the DiLaurentis' family secret would make him act quite as crazy as he did), Jason and his outburst at Emily, Emily's Ex-boyfriend's crazy mom, Ali's decorations on the flag are not completely explained and other stuff along those lines. I understand that everyone needed to be connected to odd behavior and deep secrets in order to make the suspense last to the ending point, but other irrelevant plot lines were easily cleared up. And let's not get started on how Spencer's memory kept changing anytime someone suggested someone else as the killer. It was annoying, especially because she was easily the most likable of the four other than the fact that she became an unreliable character about half way through the series.Even with the few things that bothered me throughout the whole series I LOVED every minute of it, reading most of them in one night a piece. Sara Shepard did a brilliant job of stringing us and her characters along. The situations the girls found themselves in were juicy and at times heart-breaking. I really came to care about these not-so-perfect girls.

** spoiler alert ** THE PEOPLE OF ROSEWOOD ARE GOING TO NEED SO MUCH THERAPY.In fact, let's make it a competition! It's a game show! Who Wants to Be Mentally Stable, Eventually? Let's welcome our first contestants, Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh!Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh: Thank you. Well, our daughter was blinded a few years back, and we had no idea that she struck a deal with the girl who blinded her to frame her brother, because he was molesting her. So then a few months ago, our apparently reformed but still guilt-stricken son kills himself, and NOW our daughter's been murdered! Trauma city, right?Hanna: Who let these two in? They're not fabulous. Hi, I'm Hanna, and after Ali was murdered back in sixth grade, I became besties with Mona. We did absolutely everything together, and she was always there for me - a big deal, considering that my mom was totally neglectful, ha ha! So then my old group of friends and I started getting all this creepy blackmail, and the blackmailer actually HITS ME WITH A CAR and puts me in the hospital. And it turns out it was Mona! And then she fell into a ravine and died! No, like, actually died, not Hollywood died - we found her body. And then we got blackmailed again and almost killed again and it all sucked. I'm going to need therapy, like, forever.Aria: I'm not sure why I'm even here. It was bad, for sure, but I'll be fine because I'm the most Zen person that every existed. For example, my dad cheated on my mom, then moved out of our house and in with the other woman, and now she's having his baby, and bro, I ain't even mad. I'm like, "I call godmother!"Emily: So I was in love with "Ali," who was really Courtney, for years. And then "Courtney" shows up, and I was falling for her even before she was all, "Surprise, I'm Ali!" and I was like, "OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE GIRL I WAS IN LOVE WITH!" And she's like, "YES AND I LOVE YOU BACK" and I was soooo happy and then she's all, "Psych, that was Courtney you loved and I killed her and now I'm going to kill all of yoooou!" So, I have made out with the crazy person who killed the girl I loved. Yeah.Spencer: Eesh, tough act to follow. I mean, Mona almost killed me, so that's . . . and both Ali and Courtney were secretly my half-sisters, so I kind of . . . yeah, but they were Melissa's half-sisters, too, and this is one time I don't even want to compete with Melissa.Melissa: TEARS. ALL OF TEARS.Spencer: Are those "my two half-sisters are dead" tears, or "my parents' marriage is destroyed" tears, or "my insane half-sister jumped me in a parking lot and stuffed me in a trunk and then left me tied up in a closet with the weeks-old decaying body of my former boyfriend and then set the house on fire" tears?Melissa: BAAAAAWWWWSpencer: Yeah, I'm going to hand this one to Melissa.Aria: Sounds good.Hanna: You guys! Total trauma over here!Emily: *sniffle*Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh: We really are very upset over -Hanna: Shut it, sob story. Nobody cares.(On another note, I like that this book states - and eventually debunks - exactly what Hanna fears will happen if she stops being the top dog at her school, popularity-wise. See, Hanna? You didn't instantly gain a ton of weight and go back to glasses and have all your hair dye fall out, and people you care about still like you!)Also, was that whole Amish subplot just a total red herring? Or what?

** spoiler alert ** This review is going to be full of Spoilers! I don't think there is any way to write a review for this book without giving to much information away. So, before I start my review I would just like to tell the people who have not read it yet, that is is an amazing book, it ends perfectly and is a great finish to the Pretty Little Liars series. On to my review,This book started off great right from the beginning. I, not in a million years would have ever thought that Alison had a twin. Through the last few books in the series I thought that the killer was, Melissa, Spencer's sister. And I especially thought that since Melissa seemed to always be showing up in the beginning of the book and the girls kept catching glimpse's of her every where they went. But when Alison's mom, Mrs. DiLaurentis called all the girls- Aria, Hanna, Emily, and Spencer- to the press conference she is having the girls have no clue why they are going to be there. Mrs. DiLaurentis just tells them that there is something they need to know. After the girls get there out walks Alison! But, it isn't actually Alison, it is actually Ali's twin sister Courtney-or so they think. This book has so many twists and turns. My jaw was literally hanging open the whole time I was reading this book, I could not believe all the stuff that was happening. It was stuff that I didn't even think would happen. Sara Shepard really did end her series on a high note, and to this day this series stand as one of my top favorites!

The second to last novel in the Pretty Little Liars series--Wanted--by Sara Shepard, tells the story of the twisted fate of four girls from a small Pennsylvania town called Rosewood. Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna lost their best friend Ali during a strange, mysterious night four years ago. They discovered important, life-altering facts about her disappearance in each book leading up to this and have found out so much about her passing that they refuse to stop now. Taking place in a modern day setting with normal teenage girls who are going through a not-so-normal situation, these teens experience personal troubles along with questioning their judgement and discovering that they were right and wrong about many things. Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily finally get to put that fateful night to rest, but not without finding out that much of what they thought was true really wasn’t. Shepard tells a surprisingly convincing story that is written is a subtly mature way. Wanted deals with real teenage girl issues while addressing a problem that isn’t very common. It has the right amount of unrealistic and sensible issues that are easy to relate to and interesting, such as eating disorders, family separation, and first love. There are also many genres of writing included in Wanted; for instance, mystery, romance, horror, and realistic fiction. Overall, Wanted is an astonishingly good read that is difficult to put down and will have the reader guessing until the very end.

Me encantó. Todo queda muy claro y siento que es el final perfecto. No entiendo porqué hay 8 libros más xd

3.9 stars*this book had me screaming, crying and throwing up- JAHDGHSJAJA that plot-twist was just-🧍‍♀️i loved it SO MUCH!!!the past PLL books were kinda boring imo, and i felt like nothing was really happening, but this one was actually GREAT, i think the reason why i enjoyed it more is because the vibes here were really similar to the vibes in the first 4 books, which are my favorite ones so far. (i think this one made it to my list of faves too) also i feel like the writing improved a lot. we love to see it 😭✋(btw, one thing i hated is that just like in the tv show, this series loves queerbating and it is really annoying tbh💀)

Grandissimo finale - del tutto diverso da quello della serie!Ho iniziato a leggere questa serie ed ero piena di perplessità; soprattutto non ho sopportato, nei primi libri in particolare, l’editing poco curato. Non facevo altro che trovare refusi, nomi di personaggi scambiati come per magia, doppi spazi come se piovessero (leggevo su Kindle) e chi più ne ha più ne metta. Andando avanti, diciamo più o meno dal quinto libro in poi, la situazione è un po’ migliorata, pur non essendo certo diventata di punto in bianco perfetta. Devo dire però che - nonostante l’editing lasciasse molto a desiderare - non sono riuscita ad abbandonare la saga. La storia delle giovani, carine e bugiarde mi ha preso a tal punto che sono arrivata fin qui, dove si conclude una prima parte della storia e scopriamo chi è la vera A - anche se ho visto che poi ci saranno altri libri a seguire, la maggior parte dei quali non ancora tradotti in italiano. Cos’hanno di tanto speciale queste ragazze per far sì che non riuscissi a mollare i primi otto libri della saga per più di mezza giornata? Le liars delineano un quadro completo delle problematiche adolescenziali, diventando così perfetti, adorabili cliché realistici. C’è Hanna, malata di popolarità, che non può davvero fare a meno di nutrire la propria insicurezza con il miele maligno dell’ape regina - per poi vomitare tutto una volta su due, povera ragazza bulimica; c’è Spencer con la sua famiglia disfunzionale, che venderebbe la sorella - senza esagerare - pur di sentirsi amata; c’è Arya, senza dubbio la mia preferita, che riesce un po’ più delle altre a seguire la propria testa e il proprio cuore, ma poi inciampa nella gelosia per un ragazzo, che la rende insicura come le altre; c’è Emily, che ogni tanto vorrebbe i maschi, ogni tanto le femmine e che è così incerta riguardo a ogni cosa, ma sicura solo e soltanto del suo primo amore, Alison; e poi c’è la nostra cara Alison, la nostra psicopatica preferita, forse uguale proprio in tutto e per tutto alla sua gemella. Alison sembra l’unica davvero sicura di sé, come a ricordarci che se sei un adolescente e non hai qualche rotella fuori posto è davvero improbabile che tu sia così tanto sicura di te! Ho adorato questa serie - almeno fino a qui - e ho pensato più volte: “ma guarda che scema Hanna! Ma cosa fa!”, e poi: “no Emily, no! Non cascarci!”; ma alla fine mi sono rispecchiata davvero un sacco in queste adolescenti piene di dubbi e paure che proprio non vogliono essere delle sfigate - come non capirle? Ho adorato anche il finale, che mi è sembrato originale e ben costruito: non mi aspettavo quello che sarebbe successo fino ad almeno cento pagine della fine, poi ho iniziato a intuire qualcosa...Sinceramente da accanita fan della trashissisa serie tv ho amato mille volte di più la serie di romanzi della Shepard. Mi è piaciuta la storia, mi sono piaciuti i personaggi - un po’ più sfigati e un po’ più verosimili - e soprattutto mi è piaciuto il finale. Chapeau!

At A GlanceGenre: Young Adult; MysteryLove Triangle/Insta Love?: Love TrianglesCliff Hanger: YESRating: 4.5 stars.Score SheetAll out of tenCover: 8Plot: 8Characters: 8World Building: 8Flow: 10Series Congruity: 10Writing: 8Ending: 8Total: 8.5In DepthBest Part: So much action! Worst Part: Unbelievable Plot Twist. Overall Feels Felt: Seriously??; WTF; Whooo!ConclusionContinuing the Series: yesRecommending: yes!Misc.: Buddy read with Sharon Mariampillai Found HERE!Short Review: I loved this book, it was a perfect way to end most of the story lines Sara had going on. Were they believable solutions? Eh, i had trouble with some. I rather not spoiler, but i will say, i felt grasping at straws, but it was well done. I am beyond anxious to see where this series is gonna go now thou. Lots of nail biting. Especially since it's written a couple months down the road, which this have always been pretty much back to back time frames so far. Very interesting to sees. Review In GIF Form

Ahhh. Birds are chirping, kids are laughing, and another one bites the dust. All of this could only happen in Rosewood, Pennsylvania. A town with wealth, pride, and enough secrets to drown itself. But, theres a catch. All of these secrets belong to four Pretty Little Liars. Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and