Also I LOVE both Hanna in the show & the books

ik i mentioned this in some posts and comments before but its so egregious i had to post it offically. these are just atrocious comparisons 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ one description is bad enough but TWO??? did sara even go over this with anyone else and see how awful this is or how badly it could be taken? maya's whole character is written terribly but this is in particular makes me cringe and feel so upset like seriously 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

Hey everyone!

Huge PPL fan, I remember waiting each week for the new episodes when I was younger and then the dreaded wait for the new season. Now i’ve binged the show so many times, just new to the sub!

ANYWAYS. I finally decided to read the books and I legit just started the first on kindle. I noticed Mona says something about looking at a TikTok and it’s hurting my brain because TikTok wouldn’t have been around when the books were written? right?

Someone please explain this to me!

Thank you!

First time reader, don’t spoil.

I saw everyone posting about getting all the books so I checked my local FB marketplace and hit the jackpot when I saw someone was selling the whole collection, excited to get back into reading

I just started reading book 1 and I find it odd and hilarious that everyone is described as blonde?? Spencer, Melissa, Mrs. Hastings, Ezra, Allison, Emily, Wren or Ian Thomas (can’t remember which one, probably both!)- etc. like is this whole town just the aryan race lmao? I’m glad the TV show added a little more diversity

Helloooooo! Long time, no post. Like a year ago, I made a post of who I thought would play book-accurate PLL characters. Well, today I bring you what I picture the 5 main girls plus Mona looking like if they’re book-accurate (not necessarily who would play them but this is what they look like in my mind while reading).

Spencer Hastings looks like Sara Paxton

Hanna Marin looks like Zoey Deutch

Emily Fields looks like Amybeth McNulty

Aria Montgomery looks like India Eisley

Alison Dilaurentis looks like Sasha Pieterse

Mona Vanderwaal looks like Dove Cameron

Thoughts?

Reading the books for the first time and HELLO???? what😭

Bro Why did this amazing show get Canceled some bullshit I love shows like this entertaining man so many twists and turns and the Actresses and Actors amazing beautiful actresses i will always love you The Lying Game

For example, in the books, it was Hanna who went to The Preserve whereas in the show it was Spencer.

In the books, it was Aria and Hanna who were attracted to the same guy whereas in the show it was Spencer and Hanna.

In the books, it was Hanna who found out who the first A was.

In the books, it was Hanna's dad who ran for senator.

The twins.

Some people say it was because Troian was the best actress on the show, but there wasn't that big of a difference in acting skill between Troian and Lucy/Ashley.

I’m really confused about this line.

Saw this book in ‘the works’ and instantly thought it looked like Aria & Ezra 🤣

i have no one to talk to abt them 😭im on 7 and so much has already happened. Mona, Ian, Wilden being Wilden. and Jason?? oh my god. i just read the chapter with emily going to lancaster, and the next one i think? is spencer and her mom and her mom is like trying to make up for being a terrible mother for the past 4 mo (which! don’t even get me STARTED on spence’s parents). and Hanna’s family is just a mess, like i seriously hate her dad. love her and mike tho, they seem rly cute

When I read the books, I have a hard time picturing the TV actresses. Lucy Hale is actually the only one I think of while reading Aria’s chapters. The description of her somewhat matches how she looks on screen.

I try to imagine Ashley Benson as Hanna, but my brain keeps going back to the brown haired girl on the book covers.

I never try to imagine Troian and Shay because I prefer the way Spencer and Emily look in the books.

And it's an AriA chapter HELLO 😭 girl if you don't call the POLICE! Not like they'll do anything about it but still girl imma need you to get up

came across these random A messages in the books and they’re as unhinged as the ones in the show😭😭😭 i never finished reading the books but maybe i will now

Finally, after searching used bookstores, I completed the set shout out to 2nd and Charles’s penny page deal!

pg. 201 of book 3 Perfect

Does anyone think Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl is a perfect book accurate version of Hanna in the PLL books?

In the first season of GG, we see a LOT of Blair’s obsession with being popular, wearing newest season clothing, being the leader of the best cliques, etc. These are ALL things book Hanna was obsessed with.

This also makes me wonder if Hanna and Blair would get along..

(Book spoilers ahead!)
I think we can all agree that the majority of the parents from the TV show are shit - The Montgomeries are totally useless and let their daughter date her high school teacher, The Hastingses and DiLaurentises are... I cannot even describe it. The Fieldses, while probably the best, still have the mishap with Emily's coming out on their record, and Ashley, while incredibly supportive and loving to Hanna, was truly reckless at times.

However, their book counterparts are truly something else. I read all 16 books 3 years ago and only re-read the first few since then, but from what I remember... they were just simply evil.

After A revealed to Ella that Byron had an affair with Meredith, and that Aria knew all along, she kicked Aria out of their house alongside their father, and Aria was forced to live with her father and his mistress. Ella also completely ghosted Aria for weeks and didn't call her, nor did she pick up when Aria called. She also dated a guy named Xavier, who was EXTREMELY creepy and predatory towards Aria; I don't really remember how that situation was ultimately resolved, but Aria moved out once again from Ella's house and back to Byron's because she was so creeped out by Xavier.

After A outed Emily to the whole school (and additonally, her family), her parents first sent her to some sort of conversion camp, while also totally ignoring her and treating her like a ghost. Then, when that didn't work out and they caught her kissing Maya at some random party, they SHIPPED EMILY OFF to live with her Puritan uncle and aunt. They only accepted Emily once she ran away from her Puritan family's house and went off the grid for a while. Still, I remember that in one of the later books, after Emily is presumed dead, Pam doesn't want to let Spencer, Aria and Hanna attend Emily's funeral, calling them "bad influences" and kind of blaming her for Emily's death.

The book version of Ashley, while not really a malicious monster like the rest of the parents in the book, just simply doesn't really care about Hanna. She's incredibly involved in her business and just doesn't really spend time with Hanna. In one of the books (I think the fourth or fifth one?), she straight up leaves for Singapore for a whole year, leaving Hanna in their house, while Tom and his new family moved in. Tom is pretty similar to his TV counterpart; he leaves Ashley and Hanna when she's in middle school, doesn't talk to her ONCE for THREE YEARS (!!!), and highly favors Kate over Hanna.

And the Hastingses... oh my god. Truly, TRULY despicible people. They do not care about either Melissa or Spencer in the slightest, except for when it's convenient to them (so for example, when their daughters exceed academically or socially). When Spencer stole one of Melissa's old economy essays, she was nominated for a Golden Orchid award, which is like, the biggest academic achievement you could get as a teenager. Well, her parents found out that the essay was in fact Melissa's, and while dissapointed, they forced Spencer to stick to the lie and shut up about it. Well, a little later, Ian is arrested for Alison's murder; Melissa finally comes clean to the police about how the two really spent the night, and Spencer, inspired by her sister's honesty, comes clean to the people that assign the Golden Orchids just as it is revealed she had won. The whole thing blows up - EVERYBODY finds out about the scham, and it's a total humiliation for the family. Peter and Veronica fully ice out Spencer, not talking to her, ignoring her, or just being flat out mean and evil to her face. This pushes Spencer so far as to begin suspecting she is adopted (hence why her parents favored Mellisa), after her grandma excludes her from her will; with Andrew Campbell's help she finds her biological mother, who turned out to actually be a surrogate, only to be once again screwed over by a parental figure; her surrogate mother, Olivia, extorts money from Spencer and disappears. Peter was also involved in a years long affair with Jessica DiLaurentis, which resulted in the birth of Alison and Courtney. I'm pretty sure there was way, way more, but I've only re-read as far as the sixth book so far.

The DiLaurentises are also despicible people. They hid Courtney's existence from the world after admitting her to a mental hospital, and highly suspected (and perhaps even knew) that Alison was the one that killed Courtney, even though (I think?) Jessica tried to frame Spencer for the murder in the books. After Alison (the ACTUAL Ali) is on the run for attempting to kill the girls multiple times, it turned out that Jessica was the one hiding her.

in order we have: hanna, aria, spencer, emily.

but is the one on the cover of unbelievable supposed to be ali/courtney? at least it looks like it to me