Twisted (Pretty Little Liars)

Book: Twisted (#9 in Pretty Little Liars series)
Author: Sara Shepard
Year Published: 2011
My Rating: 3/5
Recommended For: 12-14 years of age.

Short Summary: A year after the dreaded notes A sent them, four high school students Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily are making mistakes again. While on a trip in Jamaica a terrible event happened that has caused them to spread apart. Now months later, they are getting tortured by A again who knows their secret and a few others of each girl's own.

Review (Spoiler Alert)

Okay so when I bought this book a while ago I was in the direct audience, very young teenagers. Now I still am in that age category I suppose you can say but my views on things have changed a lot since back then. When I got this book a year ago I thought this series were extremely well-written and were the best things on the planet.
I guess you can say this series are very addicting. I've found myself guiltily reading them here and there because they are fun to read and some parts can be scary! The characters I find sometimes to be very tedious and the plot even in this book. Sara Shepard seems to have a certain way she likes to write each of the four books and she sure has stuck with it.
In this book another set of four books has started in the Pretty Little Liars stories, and you would think by now that the four characters in this book would begin to smarten up a little more but instead they just seem to be getting worse and worse. Allow me to go through each of the girl's individual stories in this book before getting into the main one.
So first we have Hanna Marin, a year ago she was my favorite character. I wanted to be Hanna because she seemed so perfect and funny and smart. Now I find her very annoying and a bit bitchy. I mean she's always so concerned about the most petty things and end up screwing everything and everyone over because of it. She has ditched so many people who actually treated her right just because she thought she could gain some social status. In these books little miss Hanna is feuding again with her step-sister because their Father is running for some sort of big title. I don't remember what it was..yeah I'm such a real professional here! Anyways, Hanna got a part in their commercial and this guy offered her a modeling job.  So Hanna being Hanna took it right away and didn't do any background checks on this guy. Of course the guy was scamming her, but Hanna was too much of an air-head to notice that! She was too locked on getting some sort of victory on Kate. And haven't we seen a scam before in these books with Spencer? So anyways Hanna stole money from her Father, blamed it on some innocent guy and made him loose his job. Real mature Hanna.
Next we have Spencer who is flirting with her soon-to-be stepbrother. She begins liking him and thinks the same way....until she finds out he's gay. So Spencer is cool with that, and her stepbrother makes her promise to keep his secret. Well one night they fall asleep in the same bed, their parents walk in and his father begins yelling at him. Spencer taking her own matters into her own hands decides to yell out "He's gay!" That sends her stepbrother off to boot camp and Spencer lost a potential best friend. Great job Spence.
Third we have Emily. Now Emily is my favorite out of the bunch so it's hard for me to hate on her, but she really did change in this series. She's not the innocent sweet girl who has bad luck when it comes to love anymore. Now she's just like the rest, and I'm not a fan of that. In this book we find out Emily has had a baby! Which is strange because besides a few mentions of side-effects of pregnancy in Jamaica there was no mentions of it until then. And it seemed really out of character for Emily, I mean teenage pregnancy, really? I would suspect that from Hanna sure but not Emily! Oh and then we find out Emily's new friend's Father is hitting on her and her new friend doesn't like that. I think Sara Shepard has been watching too many soap operas lately.... Another thing that gets me is she shows signs of morning sickness during spring break but gives birth during the summer? Where is the logic in that?
Lastly we have Aria's story. In this one Aria is with her boyfriend and she keeps putting off having sex with him even though Aria has done it before with other guys. Then some Finnish exchange student who is extremely cute moves into his house. The girl's name is Klaudia and she is probably THE most annoying character anyone has ever written in the books. I wanted to slap my own imagination in the face when I made up my own image of Klaudia's character, she is just that bad. She pretends to be this perfect little thing and then she turns out to be a huge Bi-otch. Of course Miss Aria isn't innocent, she pushed Klaudia  off the ski-slope when Klaudia told her in perfect English "I'm going to f*ck your boyfriend." Of course anyone would be kind of pissed about that but damn Aria...you've been pushing people off a lot of things lately aren't you?
That leads me into the main story of this next four books. The girls think they've seen Ali again while in Jamaica. Of course they have to bring Ali back into this whole thing, I really wish they would've allowed her to just you know die in the house fire and let that poor girl's story go away in peace. They really don't need to keep bringing Ali back. Well our four favorite girls decide to push her off a cliff! Well Aria did it. Anyways, turns out they killed an innocent girl named Tabitha. Smooth move Aria.

Seriously, I was very annoyed by this book. I thought the girls were very immature even though you would think by now they know better about certain things considering what they've been through. The book was still decent to read but it wasn't exactly enjoyable and i wouldn't read this if I were you if you get annoyed easily about petty teenage girls who just don't learn.