Book: Perfect by Sara Shepard

Pages: 298 (Hardcover)

My Thoughts: In Volume 3, A tells Aria’s mom, Ella, that Aria’s dad (Byron) had an affair with a student.  This is after Aria ignored A’s threats.  Ella kicks Aria out of the house, so she goes to live with her boyfriend Sean and his family.  Aria still continues her affair with her English teacher.  Emily starts up a relationship with Maya, but is outed at a swim meet.  Her parents send her to Tree Tops, a program that will help Emily get over the “illness” of being gay.  Emily ignores them because she doesn’t want to change who she is.  Hanna is no longer friends with Mona, and is humiliated at Mona’s birthday party.  At the party, she gets a text from A, and recognizes the number, finally figuring out who A is.  Spencer’s family finds out that she used her sister’s economics essay in class, which may ruin her chances at getting the Golden Orchid award that she was nominated for.  They all meet at Rosewood Day School so Hanna can tell them about A, but before Hanna can do that, she is run over by a car.  The book ends with a text from A, saying that Hanna knew too much.

It’ definitely intriguing, and the mystery continues.  I really want to know who A is, and why A is putting the girls through all of this.  A definitely has some issues, since A ran someone over because they knew too much.  I get why the girls don’t want to go to the police, since they’d have to tell all of their secrets, but at the same time, they’re clearly in over their heads with all of this.  Not wanting to spill their secrets might have cost Hanna her life…but I have the distinct feeling Hanna isn’t going to die.  But people are getting hurt because of this!

There’s also a stalker in Rosewood, and this mysterious stalker is looking in people’s houses.  Emily, Hanna, Aria, and Spencer know it’s A, but don’t tell anyone.  And A sends a picture of Aria and her English teacher to Sean, who calls the police, and then dumps Aria, leaving her with nowhere to go.  Aria and her English teacher…that whole thing is such a mess.  I don’t even know where to start with that, so I’m not even going to try.

I’m getting more intrigued as I continue to read the series.  I feel like A is someone we’ve met, but overall, I really have no clue.  A is very sneaky, but since they accidentally revealed themselves, how good could they really be?  A will clearly stop at nothing to get what they want.

Rating: 4 out of 5.  It’s pretty good, and it’s consistently good.