How could you kill off Tibby, Ann Brashares! She is my favorite character! And not only did you kill her, you do it right away, so we don’t even get a glimpse of story in her voice! We needed her to bring some cynicism, realism and humor to the story!Ģ. Rowling and Suzanne Collins.īut despite the good qualities, there was a lot not to like. Also, I love getting to see YA characters as adults in a fully realized book way, as opposed to a 2 page “see into the future” epilogue. The resolution was satisfying, and felt like it brought more satisfying closure to the series than previous ending, in book 4. I read it straight through in 2.5 hours without getting bored. If you don’t want to know, stop reading!įirst, what I liked: it’s a fast, engaging read. And in fairness, this adult venture is better than 3 & 4 but not nearly as good as 1 or 2. One of my friends’ Goodreads reviews said it best “let’s just pretend this series ended with the second book.” But we couldn’t help but be excited to read Sisterhood Everlasting, to find out what these characters we couldn’t help but still like were like as adults. Poor Carmen never seemed to be able to catch a break. The girls kept learning the same lessons. Those issues, handled so beautifully in the early books started to become clunky and overwrought. And so I kept reading, when book 3 came out in 2005, and book 4 in 2007. These books pass the Bechdel test with flying colors – it’s all about conversations between young women, and I appreciated the way the truly huge issues were given equal weight to smaller ones, in a way that rang true with my perception of the teenage experience. I loved the friendship between these girls. I read the first one as an actual YA, when it came out my senior year of high school and when the second one came out while I was in college I sat and read it in the Borders cafe instead of writing a paper.
Review: It’s so hard to decide how I felt about this book! I loved the first two books in this series. If you haven’t read and liked the earlier books, don’t use this one as your introduction. Who would we give it to? Anyone who has read and enjoyed the earlier Pants books will probably enjoy reading this one. As I explain in the review, the first book bent the slate, the second one broke it and three, four and five begin the process of putting it back together. The inside cover uses phrases like “whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation” and “as moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends.” If I’d never heard of this book and picked it up in a bookstore I’d think standard mass marketed chick lit.ĭoes it Break the Slate? Nope, not even a little bit. Face Value: The cover suggests the beach read that it is, though it’s unfortunate that even this adult venture had to include a headless girl in some form.
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