![]() ![]() When a new girl, Maya, moved into Alison’s old house, Emily began to feel attracted to her. Emily was a competitive swimmer who wanted to please her parents and be a good daughter, but she harbored secret feelings for Alison. The action starts up right before Junior year began. After Alison’s disappearance, all four of the girls grew apart and started their own individual life that was free from the memory of Alison and their tight-knit circle, which was hostile and rife with secrets. The rest of the chapters alternate between the girls’ point of views, though the narration always remains in third person. Spencer and Alison got into a fight, Alison left, and she was never seen again. She and the four girls, Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily, were having a slumber party in Spencer’s barn and Alison asked them all to lie down so that she could hypnotize them. After the reader has been drawn into the world of Rosewood, the narration switches to omniscient and we experience the night that Alison DiLaurentis went missing. ![]() ![]() The prologue starts out in second-person with a direct address of the reader that asks her to imagine that she is lying out at the pool with her friends the summer before seventh grade. ![]() Pretty Little Liars is the eponymous first novel in the young adult series. The following version of this book was used to create this Study Guide: Shepard, Sara. ![]()
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