The Elizas
Sara Shepard
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The Elizas
Sara Shepard
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
...a brilliant narrative about a confused young woman struggling to separate fact from fiction in her life.
Her swarm of fans who have come of age with Pretty Little Liars — and Shepard’s many other YA novels — will not be dissuaded from reading her new book, The Elizas, a thriller aimed at an adult audience, no matter what scorn I heap upon it. But, though the effort be futile, heap I must.
Turns out there’s a whisper-thin line between topping another author and just plain toppling over, and Sara Shepard’s The Elizas stumbles so dramatically that from page two on it’s closer to gut busting than hair raising.
Even if you only made it through watching most of Pretty Little Liars before losing interest, it’s unnecessary to read The Elizas by Sara Shepard.
While the shifts between Eliza’s investigation and excerpts from [the fictional novel-within-a-novel] The Dots can be jarring, Eliza’s voice draws readers in, and her unreliable memory creates tension. Gillian Flynn fans will be satisfied..
Bestselling author Shepard (The Amateurs: Follow Me, 2017, etc.), of Pretty Little Liars fame, pays close attention to cinematic details, practically projecting Eliza’s descent into personal nightmare, where she cannot be certain of her own memories, onto a silver screen: Scenes are carefully framed, and a soundtrack even bubbles along. A delicious Southern California noir riddled with muddled identities and family secrets..