Book: Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

Pages: 352, Hardcover

 Summary and Review: In Unbelievable, #4 in the Pretty Little Liars series, Hanna survives being run over by A but doesn’t remember who A is.  Emily gets sent to Iowa to live with relatives after catching her with Maya at a party.  Emily runs away, but goes back home to her parents when they tell her they accept her sexuality.  Aria has to move in with her father and with Meredith, who announces she’s pregnant and getting married to Aria’s father.  As for Spencer, she tells her parents that she cheated on her Golden Orchid essay, but they want to keep it quiet.  Spencer admits that she’s scared she killed Alison.  We also learn that Jenna and Alison plotted to get rid of Jenna’s brother Toby.  As for the mysterious A, we finally learn that it is Mona, Hanna’s best friend and a girl that the 4 plus Alison used to pick on before Alison’s death.  Mona found Alison’s diary and used it against the 4 girls, and she also knows the truth about the Jenna thing because she and Jenna used to be friends.  Spencer accuses Mona of killing Alison, but she denies it.  She also says it’s Ian, because he was afraid the Alison would reveal it to Melissa, Spencer’s older sister.  Spencer and Mona get into a fight, and Spencer accidentally kills Mona.  There’s also a scene where Ian pleads not guilty to killing Alison at his court hearing.

There’s a lot that happened in the book, and I thought a lot of the loose ends were tied up really well.  I enjoyed it a lot, and things were definitely changing for the girls and in Rosewood.  It was pretty hard to put down, because I wanted to know what was going on.  In fact, I think it might be my favorite out of the four.  As for A, I didn’t see it coming AT ALL, and yet it wasn’t a surprise to me.  It could have been a number of people, but Mona as A made a lot of sense. 

Rating: 4 out of 5.  It did seem a little rushed, but apparently it was supposed to be the last one in the series.