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'''''Pretty Little Liars''''' is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison. Three years later, they begin receiving text messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
 
=== The series in chronological order: ===
* ''Pretty Little Liars''
* ''Flawless''
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* ''Twisted''
 
A television series premiered on ABC in the summer of 2010, all series exclusive tropes go [[Pretty Little Liars (TV series)|here.]]
 
=== Tropes ===
 
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* [[Accidental Murder]]: In ''Twisted'' {{spoiler|the girls confront someone who they think is Alison and Aria believing she was going to kill them pushed her in self-defense causing her to fall to her death.}}
* [[Aloof Big Brother|Aloof Big Sister]]: Melissa to Spencer, and Jason as well.
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* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Pretty much everyone in Rosewood. At worst they would be [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Big Eater]]: Hanna, played for drama.
{{quote| Hanna: "My way of staying sane is to eat a ton of cheese-based snacks and then throw them up."}}
* [[Bi the Way]]: Emily, arguably Alison and Trista.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Maya, who is also a little bit more than that...
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* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: A's identity fits this because at first the girls suspect A is Alison but after she is discovered to be dead leading them to suspect Toby to be A. {{spoiler|It is actually Mona who was supposed to be best friends with Hanna which comes as a surprise to them because they never considered her at all. The second A turns out to be Alison which came as a huge shocker because it was revealed that she had killed her twin sister Courtney who was impersonating her at the time.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: Mona to Hanna.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|Dropped A Bridge On Her]]: {{spoiler|Jenna's murder at the hands of Alison was abrupt and mentioned very briefly in the books.}}
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: All of the main characters have some kind of major issue. Spencer has to compete with her sister Melissa for everything including boyfriends and then her best friend Alison as well. Emily had a crush on her best friend Alison and was in a secret relationship with Maya because she knew how her parents would react. Hanna struggled with bulimia and her father favoring her stepsister Kate. Aria witnessed her father cheating on her mom with a student while keeping it secret from her family and she got romantically involved with her teacher.
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Twin]]: In ''Wanted'', Ali reveals that she had a twin, Courtney, who was evil. However, it turns out that she's just as evil.}}
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* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]: Emily. In the books, {{spoiler|she couldn't even bear to let Alison die in a fire, despite the fact that Alison ''had just tried to kill'' her and her friends.}}
* [[Nice Guy]]: Sean.
* [[The Not -Secret]]: The Jenna Thing turns out to be this because Courtney lied about it. {{spoiler|She claimed that no one else but them knew and swore them to secrecy. It turns out that Jenna and Toby also knew who was behind it. Mona also knew it about which contributed to her dislike of the girls because she had been friends with Jenna.}}
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Mona's [[Valley Girl]] act barely hides what is an obviously sharp, observant and intelligent mind.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Ezra's reaction to finding out that Aria is a student in his English class. Understandable given how their [[Student Teacher Romance|situation]] could affect his career.
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* [[Secret Relationship]]: Aria and Ezra.
** {{spoiler|Ian and Alison}}
* [[Seemingly -Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Emily's Amish cousins.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: Rosewood.
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Hanna has a bad habit of shoplifiting from stores with her friend Mona. This is one one of the things that A blackmails her about.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Aria and Ezra.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: '''A:''' I'm still here, bitches.
* [[Trauma -Induced Amnesia]]: Spencer has no memory of what happened the night that Alison disappeared. {{spoiler|It was revealed Spencer had a similar episode to this when she was younger because she had ended up getting sick. Spencer had gotten into a fight with Alison over Ian. This caused Spencer to push Alison down before leaving the area. Spencer then repressed the memory because of the trauma. Spencer started to remember causing her to believe she may have killed Alison. It turned out that A was just messing with her before Spencer remembered the truth}}.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Toby
* {{spoiler|[[Twin Switch]]: Alison's twin sister Courtney had posed as Ali before being sent to the mental hospital, which made Courtney take over Ali's life and Ali to adopt Courtney's.}}
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