Okay, I lied. I swore that I was done with this series after book 14, because I hated how overdrawn and stupid the books were becoming. But I'm addicted to the TV show, and with all this drama about uncovering A in the show, I just had to find out what happened in the "last" book. 
 Disclaimer: It's been a while since I read Deadly and I skipped the 15th book, so there were a few holes in the plot while I was reading this. But having read book 15 wouldn't have changed my opinion, I don't think. 
 It was nice to get some closure. The plot was pretty over-the-top as usual, but I felt that it wouldn't make sense for Pretty Little Liars to have a scaled-back plot line, especially for its "finale," so I didn't really have an issue with it. Plus, I couldn't argue with it-it was meant to give us answers and an ending, and it did exactly that. So it wasn't a bad storyline, considering. It was the characters that made me want to hurt someone. 
 I could not get over how incredibly dumb the liars have all gotten. Emily's turned into a mess of raging, uncontrollable emotions that makes me wonder why she hasn't had her turn in the Radley. I missed the explosion in the 15th book, but I gleaned the fact that she still wasn't over Jordan yet, which was annoying. I don't know why Emily is so attached to girls who will bring her nothing but ruin, but it's seriously unhealthy. Can't she like any girls without criminal tendencies, for once? (Oh wait, the series is supposed to be over. Sorry, I forgot that book 8 16 is supposed to be the last one.) (view spoiler)[ Hanna getting married wasn't so illogical, since she was getting ready to go to prison and all, but I had to wonder a) how did she get such a lush, beautiful wedding planned in a week? Even a miracle worker wouldn't be able to pull that off and b) why would Mike even ask to have Hooters girls at the wedding? Why didn't he just have a bachelor party at Hooters? That way, Mike gets his last hurrah and Hanna doesn't have to worry about her still somewhat immature boyfriend husband drooling all over them at her wedding. Everyone wins. Spencer was, unsurprisingly, the most logical one of them all, but I still don't know why Wren's back in the picture. We've all moved on from him to Spoby , so his sudden reappearance is odd and feels out of place. But Aria running away, though, was the worst part. Aria kind of seems like the "mother figure" of the group, trying to make sure they stick together in times of crisis, so her flying the coup made me want to throttle her. Did she not realize that her disappearance would hurt everyone else? Did she not know how scared her family would be? Yes, her impending prison sentence was terrifying, but Spencer and Hanna were staying and taking it, so why couldn't she have stuck with them? Why did she leave them to bite it in prison by themselves? (I knew I shouldn't have read this book. Now I'm all worked up.) But even when they were acquitted, there was no way that Aria got off without prison time. Innocent or not, she still fled the freaking country while on trial. "Community service?" BS. (hide spoiler)] 
 I wasn't really sad to see the series "end." The last few chapters kind of implied that (view spoiler)[ Ali might make a break for it in a few years (hide spoiler)], which means that we might have Cruel or Insane or Relentless coming out any day now. I wish she'd just end it and let her hapless characters be happy for once, but maybe it'll just become another Baby-Sitters' Club, only for teenagers. Oh, well, at least I'll have interesting stories to tell my kids about the books I read in my childhood. 
 To end this review, I leave you with a quote from the acknowledgements. 
 "So this really and truly is the end of the PLL saga... 
 Sure. You keep telling yourself that, Ms. Shepard.