Silvia Soriano Reading Response September 24 2012
Unbelievable A Pretty Little Liars Novel By Sara Shepard
The Book Unbelievable by Sara Shepard is a book about secrets and what secrets can do to you. The book is also about trust, who you can and cant trust, who is worthy and who isn't worthy of your trust, trusting the wrong people could be the biggest mistake of your life, trusting the right people isn't always the best thing to do. The main Characters in Unbelievable are Aria, Emily, Spencer and Hanna. Best friends since 7 grade part of the it Club with another girl named Alli. These girls were best friends,they did everything together they told everything to each other, all their secrets.Alli was Queen bee of this little club. Alli was the girl Aria Spencer Emily and Hanna looked up to.Alli was the one that always made Spencer Aria Emily and Hanna do what she wanted, and when they didn't she used their secrets against them and each other. Spencer and Alli Always had trouble getting along, they always disagreed always fought.Alli always told Aria and Spencer and Emily that Spencer was just jealous of her. Alli starting getting distant from the girls. One night while the girls were having a sleep over at Spencer Barn, they woke up to find Alli and Spencer gone,then Spencer returned saying Alli gone. After that night Alli was said to be missing.A year has past by and Alli is still missing the girls have changed they all gone their separate ways.Soon they start receiving messages from a person called A. In these messages are secrets that only Alli would know. Few weeks after receiving messages they find Alli`s Body,they all think that A was Alli and know that Alli was found dead the messages would stop right? Well no they don't. They keep getting messages.All four of them have no choice than to reunite and figure out who A is.The entire book is about them learning to trust each other again and finding out who A is, but was reuniting and trusting each other better or for worse. Will they push each other over the edge? Will They Find A?
While I was reading Unbelievable, I asked myself a question, did they want to find A because it knew their secrets?Or did they want to find A because they thought A was Alli killer, were they doing this for themselves or for Alli? One thing that always came to my mind was that they never spoke about finding A to get revenge for it Killing Alli. Were they even sure A had killed Alli. A had send them all different clues about who it was. It was leading them away from the truth by using their secrets against each other..like Alli did. Each time A had threaten them about exposing their secrets, they all did separately what A had told them to do to stop A from exposing their secrets.Every time something they didn't want to be reveled they,always found a way to blame Alli. They blamed Alli for setting off the fire cracker in Jenna Garage and blinding her.Even though they never told Alli when she was alive they do now when shes dead. On the other hand they always did say they trusted Alli the most out of everyone thats why they told her everything.They also said its been more than a year and they were still tangle in Alli`s webs of lies. They didn't want to find Alli killer, cause Alli Killer probably just wants to tangle them in more lies make them suffer more.They just want to be free, free of A, free of Alli`s webs of lies, free of all their secrets.They don't 100% want to find A supposedly Alli`s killer for revenge they just want to be free of all the secrets that have been haunting them.On the other hand maybe they do want to find Alli`s killer. Alli no mater what she was, she was still their friend, best friend.Even if she was mean to them,Alli was always their for them when they needed her. She didn't deserve to be murdered or what ever else really happened to her.
Another question that I also asked myself while reading the book was did they really want to face reality and find A? The person who has been making their life's hard ever since they found Alli`s body.The person who has been hurting them both emotionality and physically . The person who ran over Hanna because she knew to much, who knew who A really was.The person who they think and maybe right or wrong that killed Alli, their Alli their best friend since seventh grade.If they did find A it could change everything, A could be someone who they never thought possible could have killed anyone.Even if they did find A wouldn't they risk that A might tell everyone(The Police, Their parents everyone in Rosewood ) about all their secrets.About Everything they did with Ali.On the other hand if they don't find A or they chose not to face reality , A could keep doing what she is doing to them. She could make things harder for Aria Spencer Emily and Hanna. A wouldn't be paying the consequences for her actions,for running over Hanna. Leaving her in the Hospital ,making her loose her memory.Killing Alli perhaps? Making Aria parents divorce. Making them do what they did even if they didn't want to cause it was against their will.
In my opinion If I was in the place that Aria,Spencer,Emily and Hanna were, I would have tried to take "A" down on my own. Killing Alli was one thing, maybe it hurt me alot cause I had been best friends with her for a long time. I had trusted her and had loved and cared for her.That was all in the past, that was my history and this is my present.If "A" would have black mailed me about my present, saying she would tell everyone my secrets, hurt someone I cared for if i didn't do what she had told me to do, I would take that personal.I would have told the police.Even if "A" did told me telling the police was just going to make her do more bad things to the people I care about, I know that the police would have the right equipment to track "A" down.I would have also told everything to the police, if I came clean "A" couldn't have used anything else against me cause everyone already knows the truth.I would have also taken all the consequences of what I did years ago with Alli.Coming clean is way better than living in until A wants me to.
In Conclusion Unbelievable is a book that kept me wondering till the end.A book that made me think every time I flipped a page. It made me think in Aria, Spencer, Emily and Hanna point of view every time they did what they did.Its a book that gives me chills just thinking about who killed Alli.This book showed me the true value of friendships and how strong and effective they could be to someone.How trusting the wrong person could make you suffer even if the person is gone, cause you cant change your past, you cant change what happened ,all you could do is live your present cause thats the only thing you could do.Believing you could your past is something you can do but in the end your left with reality.In the end what matter is what you think and what you do to make your past not repeat its self again.
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