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In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. . . .

Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men.

Now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars, the girls think the

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Library Binding, 312 pages
Published by HarperTeen (first published December 1st 2008)
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Meg
Meg rated it 5 of 5 stars
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Jennifer Wardrip
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Ian Thomas is in jail awaiting trial and the girls are able to relax and return to their lives. Or can they??? Just when the reader thought that the mystery of A has been solved at the end of UNBELIEVABLE, more bizarre events await the girls of Rosewood.

Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria slowly try to settle back into their normal lives. Hanna is working through the trauma of learning that her best friend tried to kill her. She tries t...more
Annabella
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Bayshore Books
I have to admit I was a little leery about “Wicked”. How long could Sara Shepard possibly drag out the story line? Those fears can now be put to rest. This is a fantastic sequel to the previous books. It contains all the mystery and twists and turns we have come to expect from this author. The only downside is that the next one will not be out until June.
Molly
Molly marked it as to-read
This is a great series. Im only on teh second book, but i can wait to read and find out about A.!.!.!
Caroline
The addicting thing about this series is the mystery and unpredictability of it all! Who is the mysterious A? It wasn't Alison, but now Mona owned up to being A-but she fell off a cliff. Is it Ian? Is it Kate? Is it Jason?
This series is so painful sometimes to read, the way Spencer and Hanna get treated by their families. Hanna's dad and stepmom don't listen to Hanna at all. The golden child is Hanna's stepsister Kate, who is so evil that if she was my step sister I would have thrown my cl...more
Charlynn
Several months have passed since Ian's arrest and the reveal that Mona was A and her subsequent death, but the Liars' secrets are nowhere near as cold and as frozen as the winter Pennsylvania weather. Aria has a new love interest... only he's the same guy her mom's dating; Emily is once more confused about her sexuality and dating a boy; Hanna is making nice with her step-sister in an attempt to ruin her before she can be hurt; and Spencer is uncovering her family's secrets after her grandmother...more
Alina Silva
“Wicked” did a really great job of focusing in on how ‘A’ blackmailed each of the girls– Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily. Somehow, ‘A’ continues to find out their past and present mistakes as time goes by. This causes them to begin to keep bits and pieces of their secrets from each other because they feel remorse and guilt. After finding out that the original ‘A’ was Mona, someone who befriended Hanna a while ago and their friendship eventually ended up with them drifting apart from one another. ...more
Alexa
Wicked picks off right where Unbelievable left off. The girls found out who A was, and that was Mona, Hanna’s best friend. Mona is now dead, but the girls still get text messages from A. They don’t know if it is a copycat like the police are telling them, or if it is Ian, the number one suspect in Alison’s murder case, and Melissa, Spencer’s sisters boyfriend. Aside from finding A, Emily, Spencer, Hanna, and Aria don’t spend time with one another. Emily starts dating Isaac, someone she met at ch...more
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The series revolves around four girls who used to be best friends, that is until Allison DiLaurentis disappeared, and Spencer, Aria, Hanna, and Emily all went their separate ways. Years later, when the girls start getting mysterious text messages from an unknown stalker, they think they might finally be close to finding out what really happened to Ali that night. But instead of getting closer to the truth, the girls seem to stumble upon more a...more
Molly  Gray
Wicked brougt an entire truck load of unanswered questions with it that drove each one of it's readers crazy, including me. Who is the new "A"? Is Ali really dead? Where is Ian? What am I missing? Sara Shepard has once again made me question my sanity and dig deeper into every twisted scrap of evidence she leaves. I have lost myself in the Pretty Little Liars books and I am hoping that the bread crubs the author has left will help me find my way out. A new character has joined Rosewood...more
Wdebo5487
When I first saw "Wicked" on my library's shelves I nearly had a heart attack because I was so excited to read it. When I started it seemed calm, nothing much over the toply scandelous/exciting. At first I was disappointed, the problems that occured seemed childish and, to put it simply, pitiful. However, after a bit, the conflicts intensified and well, it got so addictive like any other Pretty Little Liars book.

I am not a big fan of Spencer, she is so, ugh, I don't know how ...more
Mae
Mae rated it 4 of 5 stars
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Chibineko
While I've absolutely adored all of the books in the series so far (a guilty pleasure), this volume was very hard to get into. While one "A" is revealed in the last volume, there's still tons of mystery and intrigue to explore in the series. I just couldn't get into this volume.

The fifth book in the series follows up on all of the girls after "A" has been revealed to be Mona and Ali's supposed killer has been caught. It should be easy sailing, right? WRONG. Hanna...more
Jessica Lawlor
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Marisa
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Recommends it for: everyone 10+
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Polina ♆
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Stef
Stef rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: young-adult
**Spoilers for previous book, and minimal spoilers for Wicked**

Wicked is book 5 in the Pretty Little Liars series. I was expecting a bit of a fresh plot considering so much was resolved in book 4, Unbelievable. Instead, it’s sort of on rewind and repeat.

Things seem to have simmered down in the idyllic town of Rosewood. The wicked witch is dead and Ali’s killer is behind bars. You’d think life would go back to normal and perfect for Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna. But they...more
Alex
Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars
This is the 5th book in the Pretty Little Liars series, and it starts a new plot ARC. The old A is dead and gone (literally), but a new one has appeared... Creepy huh?

It's the same four girls but with different problems and a new stalker. Ali's killer is in jail and soon to be on trial. But then he escapes. Each girl has new secrets and the whole novel is shrouded with suspense and worry.

I actually quite like the Pretty Little Liars series. It's interesting, and different...more
Kandes
Totally amazing, as always!

Not much I can say about this book without spoiling.. but I highly recommend it for anyone who's read books 1-4. It is starting to get a lil redundant because after 4 books, they all follow the same similiar plot line, but its still a great book and series! I'm curious to see if it ever gets to be a lil TOO redundant, I mean there's going to be 12 books altogether (according to Wikipedia lol) and I've never read a series that had more then 3 or 4 books so I...more
Purplycookie
I found ”Wicked (Pretty Little Liars, #5)” to be a bit like a new beginning, a slightly calmer entrance into the second half of the series. That's not to say there weren't things going on, but it didn't have me basically tearing out the pages to get to the end like the previous two books (”Perfect” and ”Unbelievable”). I guess knowing who A was, was enough to calm me down, temporarily.

So now we have a suspect in Ali's murder who is behind bars, but was it really him or is the real k...more
M
M rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: mystery
Ugh, these books are like my favorite flavor of ice cream. So delicious but very bad for me. I always wait in anticipation for each book to come out even though I know I'll just be left unsatisfied again! And it drives me crazy to the point that I just want the series to end so that I can find out all the secrets and be done with. Although I have to give points to Sara Shepard and Alloy Entertainment for keeping readers like me on a hook.

Anyways, this is the fifth book in the Pretty Little Liar...more
Sarah Librarian
One of the things I both love and hate about these book is the way they toy with my emotions. I go through phases where I dislike a lot of the characters and the way they act, but I've always liked Emily. Not that she's more innocent than the other three, but I just like her story a lot more. Hanna, on the other hand, just when I start liking her, she does something (or many things) incredibly stupid. Another thing I've noticed is that, sadly, Shepard treats her male characters horribly, even wo...more
Victoria
Honestly, I'm getting kind of fed up with the characters, and then again they remind me of little lost puppies. The story is always repetitive in the beginning and middle, though the Ali moment from the past before the 1st chapter begins is always appreciated. The details and descriptions make it easy to forget how catty the book is, even though the details really emphasize it. The descriptions also makes it really easy to slip back into the series. The cliff hangers are amazing and explosive, b...more
Courtney Norman
I was honestly very disappointed in this book. For the first time since I started the series, I found it really hard to get into and kind of painful to finish. I don't know why, but this book's situations kind of seem to farfetched. Nice ideas, yes, but it's not near as realistic as the previous four. It seems this A is like God or something, knowing every little detail of their lives. Loose ends were tied up in the last one when we found out Mona had found Ali's journal, but this one just unrav...more
Ilana
Ilana rated it 5 of 5 stars
After they all thought A was gone, now A is back and is worse than ever. And it's a new A! Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna pour over who is the new A, also Alison's murderer Ian is now on the loose, what is going to happen? The clues are all together, but the pieces are just missing. Each of the pretty girls has a dark secret that will each stay hidden. New relationships form, for the good... and the worse.

I can connect this book to The Lovely Bones because Salmon Girl's father had a...more
Rebecca
Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: ya, chicklit
And now the story refreshes itself. Same format and "A" is still haunting the gals, but since the original A is now dead, everyone thinks that it's just someone playing a prank and not to take the lame-o threats too seriously. Until the end, when the Dude at the end of the previous book is supposed to show up for his hearing after being let out on bail, only to show up DEAD! DUH-DUH-DUNNNNNNNNN. The girls thought he was the one sending them messages, but no one took them seriously, but...more
Nicole
Nicole rated it 5 of 5 stars
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Brad
"There once was a series of eight. That series soon became so great. As the number grew to twelve, and filled the bookshelves, this series, I want to date."
~From the mind of Brad Sells (no joke!)

WICKED, the fifth installment of the ever addictive PLL series by Sara Shepard, did not disappoint whatsoever. After what happened in the fourth novel, I needed to know how the journey would continue. Usually, books that have so many in a series drag on and on forever, but t...more
Jen
Okay seriously... I haven't been properly reviewing these books because I've been too busy devoting my time to reading them, like I said I was going to. Can I just say that I hate the covers, by the way? And I hate that everyone smells like cinnamon or some kind of burning wood or hair or lighter fluid. Additionally, Alison was NOT a nice person. She was a self-centered beotch that was only concerned with making her "BFFs" look bad while assuming the role of the perfect Queen Bee. She ...more
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Sara Shepard graduated from NYU and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Sara's Pretty Little Liars novels were inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia's Main Line.
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