Blog Post #4~ Making Connetions

    Emma had to read the Facebook message four times before the words really sunk in." OMG. I can't believe this. Yes, I was totally adopted. But I never you existed until now. Can u meet me at the hiking base of Sabino Canyon in Tuscon 2morro at 6 PM? Attached is my cell number. Don't tell anyone who you are until we talk-- it's dangerous! See you soon! ~Love, Sutton (your twin)"  (Sara Shepard, The Lying Game 37&38) Of course, there was only one problem with that note: I didn't write it.
    
     The book I am reading is called 'The Lying Game' by Sara Shepard. The main characters are Emma Paxton and Sutton Mercer. Emma had been tossed around between different foster homes since she was five years old and her mother abandoned her, but Sutton was adopted from birth and lives with a loving mother, father and sister. They have never met each other and they never will, but they are long-lost twins. 
     One of the main events that happens is that Emma's foster brother Travis stole $250  for drugs from his mother and made it seem like Emma had stolen it. For proof that she stole it and that she is a liar, he showed his mother and Emma a video of someone who looks exactly like her getting strangled to death. He teased her that it was her long-lost twin. Later that night she went and searched Sutton Mercer on Facebook and there she was, her profile picture looking exactly like Emma. Emma messaged her saying she thought they were twins. 
     The only problem is that when 'Sutton' answered, she was actually dead and had been for several hours and following Emma around since that morning. So Emma is going to meet who she thinks in Sutton at Sabino Canyon, just like it said in the message. What she finds is going to definitely surprise her. 
      This quotation connects to real life in a way because sometimes there is a time in our life where we have someone that tries to follow us around or tries to take over someone else's life. What I actually wanted to connect this to, is the movie 'The Roomate" . In this movie, Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) goes off to college and her rommate is Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester). Rebecca is obsessed with the fact that she is friends with her roomate, because she was never popular in school and didn't have many friends. She sees that Sara is starting to make more friends and she gets a boyfriend that she spends more time with than she does with Rebecca. Rebecca gets really jealous and tries to push people against Sara. She was so jealous that she tried to turn herself into Sara and steal everything of Sara's and then  tries to get rid of it all. She tries to kill Sara's boyfriend. In the end, Sara finds out that Rebecca was trying tot ake over her and realizes that she is crazy and then Sara kills Rebecca because Rebecca was psycho. This relates to 'The Lying Game' because Sutton was killed for someone thinking she was Emma. So pretty much the message between both of these topics is never to impersonate somebody because something bad could happen to either one of you. This is how the two topics are related.

Blog Post #3~ The Main Character

     The book I have recently finished reading is Twisted by Sara Shepard. This is the ninth book in a series of what is going to be twelve. There are 5 main characters in this book- Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields and their arch enemy A. I'm going to be focusing on my favourite character, Spencer Hastings.

     "It's not like I'm going to get in," (Sara Shepard, Twisted, page 9) Spencer said talking about getting into Princeton- her dream university. Spencer is always worrying about her grades. I mean who wouldn't be? We all want to get into a good university and end up with a good life, but in Spencer's case she was already in and she had been since grade 11. Spencer is the über smart one in the group of the pretty little liars. She worries about her grades all the time!

     Although she is the smart one, she will never live up to her sister Melissa. In fact, Melissa was her parents blood, while Spencer was adopted. Well her mother had problems having another baby after Melissa, so her and her husband payed a lady to carry their baby. Spencer never got over this. Her parents only ever cared about something big that Melissa did. That is until everything that happened with Ali had gone viral. Spencer was so worried about keeping her grades up because ever since the mishap with Ali and the Poconos fire, there was something that Spencer feared about her grades because she knew that A was always watching. Does Spencer keep fearing A and go crazy about her grades and SAT scores, or does she mellow down and forget about A? Read this amazing mysterious book to find out!

     The song I chose that best describes Spencer, and all the liars in fact, is called Secrets by The Pierces. It is the theme song of the show and it describes the girls very well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT94RvFAY8U&feature=related

Blog Post #2 ~ Summary & Review

     The book I have recently finished is "Twisted" by Sara Shepard. It is the ninth book in the Pretty Little Liars series. Over the past year I've read all the books that are out so far and Sara is writing three more for the series! I watch the television series on Much Music.
   
  In this book, the four Rosewood teens Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields, think they are through with A and Ali. After the fire at Poconos- the DiLaurentis family vacation house,  that Ali set to try to kill the girls, the news reporters had claimed that Ali hadn't made it out of the fire and had burned up with the house. 
     The girls set off with Noel Kahn, Aria's boyfriend, and Mike Montgomery, Aria's brother and Hanna's boyfriend, to Jamaica. The girls were having fun cliff diving and going to bars and parties until the night they met Tabitha. She was a version of Ali that looked like she'd gone through surgery to get rid of burns and hide the fact that she was Ali. 
     She asked to meet with the girls and she was almost threatening them like she knew secrets that only Ali knew. She had tried to push Aria and Hanna off the roof top of the hotel and instead, Aria, using self defense, accidentally pushed Tabitha off instead. The girls were relieved because they were certain that she was Ali. Turns out she was just an innocent girl from New Jersey. They had killed an innocent girl, and A knew. When A knows something, it never turn out good for these four pretty little liars.


     I thought this book was a great addition to the Pretty Little Liars series. It added more to the mystery behind what happened to Ali after the Poconos fire. At the end of the eighth book Sara Shepard left you hanging as to if Ali is alive or dead. We still don't know for sure but the way this book was written you can tell the girls are going to get into more trouble with A. I love all of the Pretty Little Liars books but I thought that this one was particularly good. The slyness of Tabitha and the way the girls are all trying to forget about the horrible night in Jamaica made the book very interesting to read. Some other bloggers have posted that they think this book was perhaps a waste of Sara's time but I think that all the other blogs and reviews are wrong. This book was definately not a waste of time! All I know is that I would give this book 5 stars and I cannot wait for the next three books to come out!

http://prettylittleliars.alloyentertainment.com/books/ 

^ This is the link where I found the book cover. I had to scroll down to the bottom of the page because it has every book in the series and Twisted is the newest.