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.
I was so excited to get my hands on Pretty Sly. When I’d
first read Pretty Crooked, it was so opposite from all the paranormal and
dystopian novels I'd been reading a lot at the time. It won me over immediately
because of its fun premise and moral stand against bullying. Granted the
heroine, Willa, went about things rather illegally but who doesn’t love a story
about the underdog sticking it to the Glitterati?
Now she and Aidan are on the run. Her mom has disappeared,
leaving a cryptic message and a ton of cash. Of course Willa won’t heed her
mother’s advice to lay low and not look for her – ever met a stubborn 15
year-old? So feeling that she herself is not safe in their house after coming
home to it ransacked, Willa and Aidan with a little help from Tre decide to
piece together the clues to get on her mother’s trail. Naturally there are many
obstacles in their way and as much as she shouldn’t, Willa has to resort to her
“Sly Fox” ways in order to survive and press on. It’s a mixed bag of feelings
for her – on the one hand, she’s appauled and feels guilty that she has to
break in to homes and steal cars while she’s on the run. On the other, a
small part of her enjoys the thrill and notoriety she’s receiving. When their
pictures are splashed all over the news and they're labelled as rich kid runaways glamorizing an errant lifestyle ,
Willa and Aidan know that they have no time to waste.
It’s been a while since I’ve read Pretty Crooked but I do
remember enjoying it very much and taking to Willa. In this one, I was a
tad bit annoyed with her. I know, I know, her mother is gone, she’s on her own
and she’s in trouble. She has every right to be whiney but many times it
affected her reasoning. And she wasn’t
helped by her growing feelings towards Aidan. In those instances, I was
reminded that she’s very much a fifteen year-old girl and shouldn’t be in this
ridiculous predicament in the first place. It’s unfair of me to expect her to
be some sort of high-end, stealthy spy in total control of her emotions. When she does finally get her stuff
together though, it’s the Willa that I remember. And it’s on!
Pretty Sly is just as fun as its predecessor with more at
stake. And even though she and Aidan are breaking the law to find her mother, she
does intend to right every wrong she creates along the way. That’s one of her most
admirable traits which makes Willa a fun, flawed and socially responsible
heroine to enjoy!
~ Bel
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