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Pretty Sly by Elisa Ludwig Review

Hello Everyone :)


I hope you're all doing well.


If you read my blog last week, you might remember that I shared my review for Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig, and that I hadn't really enjoyed it nearly as much as I expected to.


However, since I already owned the second book, I decided to go ahead and read it anyways, and hope that I would end up enjoying it more than I enjoyed the first book.


Pretty Sly by Elisa Ludwig:



Source: Bought For Myself

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Publication Date: March 18th, 2014

Genre: Young Adult/Contemporary

Series: Pretty Crooked

Synopsis:

Sequel to Pretty Crooked...

Willa Fox was told to stay out of trouble. In fact, it was an order from a very serious juvenile court judge.

However, that was before Willa found her house ransacked and a mysterious email from her mother telling Willa she had to leave Paradise Valley for a while and not to come looking for her. Willa knows her mom’s in danger and that no one at school will miss her after her recent sticky-fingered stunts with the Glitterati. So with the help of her pal Tre and with her degenerate crush Aidan as her wingman, Willa violates her probation and hits the California highway in search of her mom.

But when Willa and Aidan’s journey turns dangerously criminal and they wind up being the focus of a national manhunt, they realize it’s sometimes easier to escape the law than the truth—and that everything Willa thought she knew about her mom, and her life, was wrong.

Pretty Sly is Elisa Ludwig’s fast-paced sequel to Pretty Crooked, the second book in a trilogy that’s pitch-perfect for fans of Ally Carter. With a daring heroine who has one-of-a-kind spunk, a roller-coaster Bonnie and Clyde romance, a thrilling mystery, and a shocking twist ending, this book will have readers rooting for Willa as she makes the wrong choices to do the right thing. Fans will be eagerly awaiting the series conclusion.


*****synopsis from goodreads****


My Review:

Pretty Sly picks up right where Pretty Crooked left off, as Willa attempts to figure out what's truly going on with her mother's disappearance, and along the way, will end up questioning everything she's been brought up believing.


Willa Ford has had an eventful few weeks. She's been busted for the petty theft she'd been pulling over on her rich classmates, and her antics have made national news. In fact, they've even gone so far as to give her a nickname-The Sly Fox. However, none of the drama she's been through can prepare her for the reality that her mother has taken off without any explanation, and Willa has no choice but to try and find her to figure out what's truly going on. There's only one big problem-Willa's probation dictates she's not allowed to leave town, and she's pretty sure her mother is definitely not in Arizona.


Thank goodness she has friends to depend on to help her with her criminal plight, and Tre and Adian already have a plan-the former will help her and the latter steal a car, and be on their way to road trip it up to wherever her mother has disappeared to. Unfortunately, plans never go the way we want them to, and soon Willa and Aidan will have no money left to fall back on, the police hot on their tail, and the discovery that the answers they're looking for are much more sinister than they ever could have originally thought.

I definitely appreciated the fact that the writing style of this second book was much quicker paced, and held my interest from start to finish. The mystery unfolding between the pages was well rounded, intriguing, and kept me guessing right until the big reveal as to what on earth could possibly be going on. I'm also thankful to report that Aidan's character grew on me in this one, and I was finally able to see more of what Willa's fascination was with him, although I honestly still think I prefer Tre. The ending was not what I was expecting, and definitely has me intrigued enough to want to pick up the last book, which I wasn't expecting considering what my low opinion was of the first book after I finished it.

However, it's still not a series that's big on my priority list right now, and that's mainly because I stand by the implausibility of the premise. I mean, Willa and Aidan are two young teenagers, both with their first criminal experiences freshly under their belt, and yet they're managing to evade law enforcement, and break into houses with state of the art security systems. I really wish the plot line had been written in a way that made it seem more real. However, it's definitely better than the first book, and for that I bumped it up a star rating.

Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐


I'm still not sure if I'd personally recommend this series or not, but I'll see how I feel about it once I read the last book in the trilogy.


Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day, and I'll see you all again soon.



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