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I stayed up half the night reading this book. I couldn't put it down. It is classified as an adult novel instead of young adult like the rest of the series but it's not for content reasons You're hooked from the first page. I stayed up entirely too late reading this book because I could not put it down.
The girls haven't really kept in touch since college. Like it says in the prologue "Growing up is hard on a friendship". They all have their own lives now in different parts of the country. Carmen drives me crazy in this book and I want to shake Bree.
Lena and Tibby are both tied for my favorite character. Tibby reaches out and buys them all plane tickets for a reunion in Greece. None of them will return home the same. One thing I love about this series is you really feel like you're one of the "sisters". I feel like everything that has happened in this series has happened to me. I can't tell you why I sobbed but be warned to read this with a box of tissues handy.
I thought I had said farewell to the girls after book 4 but then they returned as full fledged adults in this book and I had to say goodbye all over again at the end of this book. I really didn't expect to like the ending of the book especially after sobbing so much throughout it. Everything comes together in the end. Everything happens for a reason. Four friends ten years later. How has the sisterhood fared - how has life treated them and where are they now?
Although the girls had gone their separate ways and had sort of lost touch with each other, Lena, Carmen and Bee gather in Greece for a reunion arranged by Tibby. What they find there changes their lives forever. This is a story of enduring friendship and love. Although at times almost maudlin and certainly sentimental, the narrative makes us root for each of the girls to finally find true happiness.
I enjoyed the book and recommend it as a fitting conclusion to the series introduced to the world of young adult readers in Some have said that this novel is not for that YA market, but I think teens who enjoyed the other 4 books and movies will want to follow this sisterhood of best friends into adulthood.
Addendum: I'm adding this last part because of advice not to read it because it's sad. Yes -- some parts of the book are sad. But who among you has a perfect life that is not marred by some disappointment or other event that you wish you hadn't gone through?
I think the things that happen to the girls in the book provide a more realistic depiction of how we all fare through adulthood. There is regret and loss. Everything for most of us is not always sunny and happy. Neither is it for the girls of the Sisterhood. And I think that's how it should be. Received free from Goodreads first reads. This probably only deserves four stars, but I don't give a shit. I'm giving it five stars. Until about the last forty pages, I thought I knew what I was going to write in this review.
I was going to say that Brashares is incredibly good with the inner lives of her characters. I was going to say that she brings people to life in magical, absurdly readable, and moving ways. I was going to say that despite this, reading this book is like expecting to jump into pool and float back to the surface, but instead you start drowning, sucking up little bits of air at a time, just trying to survive.
I was going to say that as readable as it was, it was just too much for me to handle, and that these girls always seem like they need to learn the same lessons over and over again, and the lesson never sticks.
But then I got to the end, and I started crying, and I couldn't stop. To be honest about it, I'm still crying right now. They're the good kind of tears, by the way, the bittersweet ones. Ann Brashares is not Nicholas Sparks or Jodi Picoult, both of whom I always feel manipulated by, like with them tears are the goal, and not just a product of something great that they've created.
Sparks and Picoult want me to feel luxuriously sad about my life, Brashares just wants to tell me something true. Does that make any sense? This book just got to me.
It got to me on an emotional level that a book hasn't in a really long time, and there's nothing I can do about it. I don't feel like critically evaluating this book for its failings.
I only feel like feeling. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm warning you right now, if you pick this up, you better have a box of tissues ready by the end, and your best friends on speed dial. Okay, this is not really going to be a kind review. I'm not trying to sound mean or like a weirdo Internet commenter, but there are some things that really ticked me off about this book. So there's a spoiler that all Traveling Pants fans knew about months ago, one that you can read pretty easily online, and that many have, but if you don't know and want to read the book, stop reading here!
And if you do know the major spoiler, there are more revealed below, so just take care if you do want to read the book! I considered not bothering to read the books, but I didn't think I could ever skip a Pants book. But it turns out that Tibby's death is the least bothersome thing in this book.
It's easiest to explain by pretending that I'm the dust jacket of the books back when they were still YA and going character by character: Carmen: always my favorite character, now a successful TV actress engaged to a producer that none of her friends like. Here's the jist of what Carmen's character has become -- she's horrible because she has an iPhone.
Seriously, the others all look down on her because in this universe only shallow, terrible people use shudder iPhones!!! So instead of focusing deeply on things that are a concern like her being engaged to someone she doesn't really love, or how she barely eats anymore the biggest concern is that she uses an iPhone. But don't worry -- she becomes a better person when she meets a widowed man and his two children on a train and gives up acting. All because her iPhone doesn't work. Seriously all iPhone users, Ann Brashares is sending you a message!
Lena: always my least favorite character, she's still pining for Kostos. Enough already is what I thought when I first read her storyline, but this surprised me by turning out to be one of the better storylines in the book. Bridget: Oh this really annoyed me. No actually, made me angry.
So while grieving for Tibby in a very erratic way that I kind of hoped they would explore more Bee discovers that she's pregnant. We all know that of course she'll have the baby. Much like television characters, book characters never have abortions. But the way she comes about making her decision is just such a bizarrely anti choice scene that I could barely believe -- I can only quote -- "Bridget thought about the thing in her uterus, not a thing, but a person, a soul, and she felt chastened.
We all agree that the book sucked but I guess for entirely different reasons. See, your views are based hugely on the fact that there are anti-feminist notions in the book. I truly didn't even notice-I just didn't like the story for reasons we both agree on - the characters hadn't grown much and the plot wasn't all that engaging Lena and Kostos, again Bee and Carmen were just blah So we both think the book sucked, how come I just don't see the anti-feminism in it the way you guys do?
Before I go on, I should point out that I am from an African country where the feminist movement is young. Here we call them female rights activist and we give much power to them because they fight for equality.
I'm begining to think that the feminist groups in the west I'm assuming that's where your from have taken on a whole new meaning Let me explain my confusion; 1. I didn't much like the love connection between Lena and Kostos because it was just old.
Not to say that a girl can't be in love with a guy for that long, it can happen, but really, what was it that was keeping them apart? I also didn't like Bee's relationship as well, mostly because the author just didn't sell it to me in this book she did in the third book though. I however, get a feeling that you didn't like the relationships because they were somehow anti-feminist?
How is that? Is it anti-feminist to love a man passionately and want to marry him? I don't think its fair to label a girl weak if she decides to go that route. A woman is a complicated creature. For every one of us who have no problem utilising the choice to abort, there is a woman who truly believes that 'the fetus' is a baby and has a deep and growing connection to it. Bee happens to be the latter. Are you saying that its anti-feminist to rejoice in the fact that you decided to not have an abortion?
If I can be happy that i had one, why can't I be happy that I decided not too? Maybe your right in that the wording the author used might have caused a reader who has procured an abortion to feel shame or to mourn. All I'm saying is that denying me all the emotions a woman feels towards that highly sensitive issue of abortion is robbing me of my rights on some level. If feminists fight for the right of a woman to proclaim that she doesn't want the kid, they should be just as supportive of a woman who proclaims that she's glad she had that kid.
Both are valid positions that women can go through in their life. I'm pregnant right now and I'm quite attached to the little one growing within me but you have raised an issue rarely faced in my country - if I rejoice in the fact that I am having a baby, I'm I indirectly condemning the woman who chose to abort? I'm I raising uncomfortable issues as to whether the fetus is human or alive or whatever?
Is it possible that we have fought so hard to make sure that women have the choice to abort that we now don't know what to do with the women who chose not to abort and are validly quite attached to the child? Even in my confusion, its clear to me why its a paradox to support both positions yet I insist that both are positions felt by women and the whole point is to protect all women rather than making me feel inferior because of what I feel about my pregnancy. One of the commenters also found it ridiculous that Bee would enjoy a life of being a mother.
Again, isn't this thinking a bit fixed? I believe the whole point of feminism is to allow women a choice. Isn't such a position just removing me from one box cultivated by a masculine society that women must stay at home and shifting me to another box where woman who actually want to stay home are labelled as old fashioned and hailing from the 's?
Is a feministic society at risk of making life just as rigid for me as a masculine one? Why can't I just 'be'? As I sign off, I need the readers and the writers of this blog to understand that I am truly confused by this brand of feminism and I really do want some sort of explanation.
I did flip through a bit because I knew somehow it couldn't be true. And I agree, after ten years I thought they would sound a bit more adult, and odd two out of four were with high school loves, but I ignored all that eager for their reunion, as if it were my own reunion with these girls I've grown to love. Now it will never happen.
I was actually convinced Tibby was pregnant and wanted her closest friends in her life for that, and the reason you didnt hear her voice was to not spoil the surprise. AND suicide! Why invite all your loving friends on holiday to morn your death.
Im just going to pretend this book never happened, just like I do with the last episode of Roseanne. I think the word, "feminist," is used as a brief comparison.. At some point you realize, "That guy's a jerk, I can do better. I deserve better. The abortion part, she's not bad-mouthing the women who chose to be housewives and avoid abortions, it just doesn't fit Bridget.
Though if she had really changed her mind, I think her epiphany could have been better written. Of course, she had to spend time with some kid she's babysitting to, "change her mind. Personally, I was somewhat like Bee, never wanted kids, liked to spontaneous and all that but recently kids have been an idea that's starting to grow on me. How can she just decide all of a sudden she wants to keep the baby when all she did was spend time with someone else's kid.
She never had the thought, "what kind of parent would I be? In my opinion, the girls pretty much needed an epiphany that never showed up like it did on book 4 when they realized they didn't need the pants.
It's hard to believe that during 10 years they couldn't have that, "aha! I haven't actually read this book but I did read the last 4.
I've read spoilers from this, and I am also angry about Tibby's suicide! Anyway, that is my shpiel. By the way, this is a feminist website so.. Everyone has opinions and different ways of thinking. I think the feminism comparison is used because the book appears anti feminist.
Its not that there is a problem with a girl choosing to embrace motherhood, its that it was Bee. Part of the magic of the sisterhood was that the girls were very different, so I would expect certain characters to choose abortion and other to feel that wasn't right for them. Bee has always been reckless and driven to freedom, in book 1 she sleeps on the beach to avoid feeling closed in, her personality has always been reckless and parallels between her mother and her are very present.
She gas very high highs and very low lows.
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