Once again I can cross a book off my summer reading list with Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares. Again this was a library book so I needed to hurry up and read it!
I don’t think I read the fourth book in this series prior to reading Sisterhood Everlasting, but it didn’t seem to matter. I wasn’t lost at all picking up the story of Tibby, Lena, Bridget and Carmen where this book begins. It is nice to have a wrap up to this story and see where the author would take them.
Since I didn’t read tre preceding book, I’m not sure where it left of but Sisterhood Everlasting starts off with the four girls somewhat estranged, not for any particular reason other than as adults life got busy and none of them lived in the same city. They all know that they miss each other but no one is really wiling to make the first move until they all receive a letter from Tibby. She has organized a reunion at Lena’s grandparents’ house in Greece.
I would say about half of the time I was reading Sisterhood Everlasting I was mad at Brashares. She took quite an unexpected turn in this book that I was not happy with at all. Though I have to give her credit because by the end I was content with the way she brought it all together. If you are a fan of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series you will not want to miss Sisterhood Everlasting!
On a side note, it was kind of funny to picture Blake Lively as Bridget while her current film The Savages is in theaters. Here character in The Savages looks like it would be quite a departure from Bridget in the Sisterhood books!
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Now I need to hurry up and finish my books for this month so I can check that out from the library! =)
Although I couldn’t put this book down, I relaly didn’t enjoy it. I had been so psyched that Ann was going to write another book from a different period of the girls’ time. But as soon as the book started, I kind of felt like they didn’t relaly change all that much. They were kind of still in the exact same spot with the exact same hang ups as before. I was so disappointed in Carmen (thus in Ann for turning Carmen into what she turned her into). Carmen was left 10 years previous doing so well. She wasn’t going to cop-out. She was a serious actress and was proud of herself. Now she’s a typical, size 0, don’t eat anything, don’t acknowledge your roots, actress. I was relaly disappointed with who Carmen became in this book and EVEN THOUGH she managed to get through it by the end, I don’t relaly think that resorting to the same whiny behaviour you had when you were 19 is okay when you’re almost 30. Bridget continued to act like a teenager instead of an adult. Even after everything she went through 10 years before. Even though she was strong. Even though she was the strongest in her family. It was ridiculous. And Lena Lena was EXACTLY the same person. She hadn’t changed at all. Still hung up on Kostas. Seriously? Like seriously? Get over it and move on or make something happen. Tibby, oddly enough, despite the plot of the book, seemed to be the ONLY one of them to actually grow up and learn to be comfortable with who she was. Just my review of the book, haha. Glad I got that out!
I have not read this book, but it looks interesting. I am currently reading a short story my Debbie Macomber ; when first they met.
I have not read this book either! I tend to have my nose in cookbooks or wine books! 😀