But now, I find myself rolling my eyes at some of the things I was forced to read. Yes, the A and murder plots are omnipresent, but it's the everyday lives of the girls that fuel the story forward, and Sara Shepard used to be so good at making those plots flow so easily from book to book. Stunning perhaps has one of the lamest story lines ever written in a PLL novel. The way Sara Shepard wrote it just makes it seem like she's tired of it all. There's just no fun left in the plot lines. Now, the characters feel like ghosts of their former selves. Wanted tied up every possible story line in a (while very far-fetched) concise way. I think my excitement for Twisted and Ruthless kind of overshadowed the dwindling quality of the novels. Wicked through Wanted were the same quality as the first four books, and I never got the sense that it was tacked on just for the sake of writing more entries in the series. It was originally supposed to be four books, but anyone who reached the end of Unbelievable knew that there was enough life left in the series that adding four more books just seemed natural. It's a sad day when you start to slowly realize that one of your favorite (guilty pleasure) series is slowly starting to wane in quality.
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