It's summer after the first year of college for the girls, life is changing and they have to figure out how to stay connected while figuring out who they are apart.

I think these books do a good job of showing why someone would make bad decisions or decisions against their best interest. A lot of what happens is the friends treating people (and themselves?) badly and feeling bad about it and trying to learn from their mistakes and be better in the future. It feels realistic even if it also makes you want to shake some sense into them.

Reading Rush: Read & watch a book 2 movie adaptation

I'm surprised y'all!

The first time I read Forever In Pants I didn't enjoy it and when I watched the second movie and realized it was based on this book I was annoyed. In fact I've only watched that movie once because of it(although I still bought the dvd). I can't even remember why I didn't like it the first time around.

Forever In Pants takes place the summer after the girls 1st year in college and things have changed. The girls just can't seem to find the time to spend together. Lena is boring as always but she has a new man, Carmen is away at theater camp and seems to have under gone a personality transplant, Bridget is (a mess as always and I live for it) off in Turkey doing archeological dig & having suspect "friendship" with a guy there...

And Tibby is being Tibby!

Tibby decides to takes things to the next level with her boyfriend but when things don't go as planned she goes into an emotional tailspin.

I read in a couple other peoples review that they were uncomfortable with one scene in particular and they felt that consent wasn't properly given. I can see their point of view but I didn't have a problem with that scene but I just wanted to mention it and give a heads up to all you guys out there.

As I said at the beginning of this review when I read this the first time around in 2007 I didn't enjoy it but I really enjoyed it this time. I think I just didn't like how apart the girls were emotionally but now as a proper adult(THE LIES!) I can appreciate how true to life this book is. You're suppose to venture out and make new friends and make mistakes when you're in you're late teens/early twenties. I will now rewatch both movies and I hope I will like the second movie better this time around.

Reading Rush Day 2: 2 books down!

idk what I’m going to do when I finish the fifth book cause this series has been my life this past week

LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! I always told myself "eh, I'll just put the book down after this chapter ends and wash the dishes," but it's SO GOOD it ends up being an hour before I move from the spot from where I was reading (standing up, of course). I didn't cry at the end, but everything came together and ended quite wonderfully.

This series I'll definitely read again-- I have the 1st movie and love it, but have yet to watch the second because I watched the first 20 min and realized it was a combo of the last 3 books... Will watch soon for sure.

Anche se l'autrice continua a parlare delle stesse 4 ragazze non ci si annoia a seguirla tra le vicende che si susseguono, mentre gli anni passano e le esperienze di vita si moltiplicano. L'unica cosa che resta sempre invariata è l'amicizia e la piacevolezza della lettura.

Not my favorite of the series... the majority of the storylines felt predictable and tiresome. I still mostly enjoyed the writing and being with the gals, but this wasn't the conclusion I hoped for.

Eeeh??

I quite liked the first book in this series, but it's been a downhill slope since then. The characters felt like they never learnt ANYTHING over the course of the series and continued to make the same string of mistakes.

I don't understand why the hell Kostas was a recurring character. He's the actual worst and having waded through four of these books, I STILL don't know why Lena liked him.

Tibby's relationship with Brian was...super weird, to be honest. She never seemed particularly into it, and so her reaction to them sleeping together felt completely realistic to me.

Carmen's story was once again the most interesting one in the book, but it drove me nuts that it took her so long to realise that Julia was messing with her constantly.

Bee's story in this one filled me with rage, because a) I continue to hate Eric and don't think she should be with him, b) the whole bullshit thing with her 30 year old professor (HAHAHAHAHA SERIOUSLY?? He's just turned 30 and he's a PROFESSOR?!) was super gross, and c) OH MY GOD STOP KNEELING IN THE TRENCH OH MY GOD. Seriously, I was filled with so much archaeologist nerd rage. You NEVER kneel in the trench. And you certainly don't crawl around in it on your hands and knees, or roll around with your professor. Because holy hell, you could be destroying seven million artefacts.

So yeah. I was honestly a little relieved when the stupid magic pants disappeared into the ether. It was a cute concept in the beginning, and I did like the friendship between the girls. But they just never seemed to learn their damn lesson. You know?!

I loved this book as much as the previous ones :-)
Although there is one little thing that I don't like, that moral lesson every time one of the girls has sex for the first time or is thinking of it. There was the same thing on the other books.

How I Came To Read This Book: I read the first three?

The Plot: The Sisterhood is back one last time as the girls regroup following their freshman year at college. Although they've all moved forward with their own lives, the girls still share their magic pants (year-round in fact, since they no longer attend the same school). Carmen has retreated into her shell under the shadow of her new friend Julia - the two girls decide to go to a theatre production for the summer as interns where Julia reveals her true colours. Bee is on an archaeological dig in Turkey and missing her boyfriend...not that there aren't distractions in the form of hot male professors to keep her busy. Tibby is in NYC and pondering the repercussions of her relationship with Brian while worrying about her summer film program. Lena is taking an art class where she is (Surprisingly) enamored with the subject of their classes - but more surprises emerge through Kostos of course.

The Good & The Bad: Looking back at my review, I feel that I would still agree with it. There was a big gap in my memory between book #3 & book #4, which made it tougher to read - but I still liked it. The girls are farther apart than they'd ever been in past books, a good call on Brashares part to both tone down their overemphasized sisterhood friendship, but also to represent the natural drift college creates. That being said, it also defeated the purpose of the books - instead of being about friendship and self-discovery/growth, the book was more focused on relationships, love, and sex. Even the movie was guilty of this! Still, I think Brashares did a good job of wrapping up the series (perhaps a tad too neatly) and I'm glad she wrote the fourth. I'll miss the girls, but we'll always have the movies I guess.

The Bottom Line: A fitting conclusion to the pants.

Anything Memorable?: I had a helluva time getting into see the second movie (which is largely based on the fourth book) including winning passes to the premiere only to have it sold out, then barely being able to get into a showing nearly a week alter.

50-Book Challenge?: Book #8 in 2008

“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility for everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.”

I keep coming back to the Sisterhood, I just can't get enough of these girls, well, young women at this point. I love how the books grow up with the girls, or girls grow up with the books - whichever way you want to put it, really.

I know I've said this in the review of previous Sisterhood book, but I do not like young adult contemporary books about coming of age. And yet, I love this series, and will probably reread these books in the future.

In every book I always pick my most favorite girl (I can't even say character, they are all just girls to me. My girls, because that's how you feel after you've spent a couple of books with them) and a least favorite girl. Throughout the books I always identify best with Lena, but Bee is always close second. In this book Bee's story was the best one for me personally, I even teared up a few times (I tear up or straight up cry in each of these books, so that's not a surprise). What was a surprise is that Carmen was my second favorite this time, and usually she and Tibby rival each other for who I can hate the most. Not hate really, but just be annoyed by. Forever in Blue is no exception,and probably for four books in a row now, Tibby is my least favorite (or second to least favorite). Tibby is always, always at the bottom for me.

“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended.”

What I love the most about these books is not even how girls are all beautifully imperfect, but how relatable they are in their imperfectness. Sure, the situations they find themselves in are often a bit too ridiculous to feel like real life, but the emotions they feel are so true.

In other ya contemporary books I often find myself being annoyed at characters making stupid, stupid, stupid decisions. In Sisterhood books I see myself in their decisions. They are still stupid, but they are also true and they are things that I've done and lived through before. I believe that this is the reason these books are so relatable and so moving. The emotions are so true that we can't help but identify at least with one of the girls at any given time in the book. Lena, Bee, Tibby and Carmen are me, and I am them.

​I believe that this is considered a conclusion of the books, although there are two more after this one. Technically. There is a book with different characters (Three Willows 4.5, which I own and will read, but I don't know how I feel about that) and Sisterhood Everlasting (which I am really scared to read as they all will be grown ups.

“She had that frustrating dreamlike confusion of racking her brain for the answer then forgetting what the question was. There was a question, wasn't there?”

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Got through all four now. Yeah I know there is one more but we will see.

I really did like this one, not as much as the first but I think I liked it better than the Second and Third. It's been a long time though, I might have to go back and check my reviews.

Loved Carmen's story, Lena's was great too, so glad she really let down her hair in this one!
Bee wasn't too impactful for me in this time around while Tibby gave us a big emotional element. It meshed well together.

I feel like it's a great one to end with

SUCH A GOOD BOOK!!