I read the first book a couple of years ago so I don't know all the details of the first one. So if I make mistakes in this review then bear with me :)

The Travelling Pants, the Magic Pants, the Pants that helped the 4 girls have a great summer the last year are now not helping at all. Bridget leaves for the summer to visit her grandma, but not as Bridget. She gives herself an alias to find out more about her family. Carmen gets super jealous when her mother gets a boyfriend. Tibby attends a photography college course and wants to be cool for once. And Lena struggles with her love to Kostos.

I do love when characters I like get into struggle. So you learn a bit about their coping skills. But it was a bit too much here because everyone had it hard, there was not one of the girls who started out good in the summer. And that's just unbelievable.

Furthermore the story progresses pretty fast, what is great but also not, as it lacks depth and communication. But I'm probably expecting too much of a teenage book.

Other than that I enjoyed reading this book as it's still lighthearted and kind of brings me back to my teenage years (they were not as adventurous and memorable as for the girls in the book though).

I can't wait to read the next one and I can't wait to someday watch the movie adaptation.

Onvan : The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #2) - Nevisande : Ann Brashares - ISBN : 385731051 - ISBN13 : 9780385731058 - Dar 373 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2003

“Nada le quita el sabor a la mantequilla de cacahuate como el amor no correspondido”.
“En cualquier sitio en cualquier momento. Si estás pensando en mí, puedes estar segura de que estoy pensando en ti”.

Simple y fluyendo. Lista para la siguiente entrega.

Digging into a little young adult fiction. There is something about this genre that screams summer to me more than even the typical beach reads, and not simply because the series literally takes place over the course of a summer. You might be inclined to think that a summertime read geared toward teens would be an easy breezy read but don't be deceived. There is some heft to the plot content.

What I liked about The Second Summer of the Sisterhood:
Re: the characters - After not really connecting to Bee in the first book, I thoroughly enjoyed her in this one. I found the ways in which she was vulnerable and the connections that she sought as a result touching. And Lena. Oh, sweet Lena. If you've never experienced truly shattering romantic heartbreak at an age when you were ill-equipped by life experience and emotional maturity to process the scope of feeling everything, then it would be easy to dismiss Lena as foolish and her story with much eyerolling. But if you've been there yourself, this story will punch you straight in the gut, because that is an experience you will never forget. I felt Lena's pain with a rawness that shocked me.
Re: the content - As I already mentioned, Bee's story was touching and Lena's was gut-wrenching. As for Tibby and Carmen, while they were both epic brats (for entirely different reasons), I liked that there was growth in their resolutions. However, Carmen and I could not be friends. She stresses me out.

What I didn't care for:
Lack of depth - This applies mostly to Tibby. I felt like she didn't get enough attention. Not that she didn't have a complete story, because she did, but it felt like there was so much more that could have been done with it.

I appreciated that this book wasn't all fluff and mooning over boys. It wasn't a challenging read; even though there were some heavier parts, it was a good summer book. It moved right along and kept me engaged.

I feel like I am falling in love with this series all over again.

I loved the character development for 3 out of 4 of the main characters:

-Carmen is angry, but most teens can be fairly angry. I thought it was great to see her relationship with her mom and how her rock after so many years changed a bit. Plus her relationship with her step siblings continues to form and grow stronger and I thought that was really sweet to see.

-Bridget (Bee) was probably my favorite of this book heading to Alabama to reconnect with her estranged grandmother. Bee is still reeling from last summer and over the last year she really lost sight of herself. So learning more about her mother and where she came from helped her a lot and she really transformed in this book.

-Tibby is still affected by the death of Bailey but not acknowledging it. She and Brian have become close friends over the last year since Bailey’s passing. Away at film school Tibby is struggling with leaving her parents and understanding her place in her family.

-Lena. Oh Lena. It’s funny because when I was a teen I loved her love story, but as an adult I really just want to scream at her. I don’t understand her connection with Kostos because they spend almost no time together (ever). I don’t remember much about the next two books but hopefully they get much better.

Overall, I am loving my reread of this series. I can’t believe that I donated my original hardcovers to the library.

As I continue my reread of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, I'm struck by how many of opinions about the characters change and how many stay the same. When I first read this series as a teenager my two favorite characters were Tibby & Carmen. As an adult I still love Tibby

But God!!!!!

I can't stand Carmen. Carmen is a terrible person and I'm wondering what drew me to her as a teenager. Carmen is the type of person who grows up to become a mass murder. Her inability to control her rage is troubling and no one seems to be worried about her irrational rage. It was just quite surprising how much my opinion changed.

More places my opinion changed.

I think Bridget is becoming one of my favorite characters.

My opinion hasn't changed however about Lena. She's still BORING.

And who cares about Kostos?

I sure don't.

Overall I'm enjoying my reread. Its fun to see how adulthood has changed how I see these books. They're still great books and I think they mostly hold up except when someone mentions running out of cell phone minutes.

First things first: I want the shoes that the model on the cover of this edition is wearing. Because they're wonderful and I need them.

Onto the book itself - I kind of wanted to strangle all of the characters. First of all? WASH THOSE FUCKING JEANS. I'm sorry, but you cannot pass a pair of jeans between four teenage girls over the course of two summers and NOT get blood on them at some point. Also, it's summer. In Washington D.C. It's humid as shit. And Bridget plays soccer in them. WASH THE JEANS. THEY'RE NASTY.

But I digress.

While I appreciate that the lessons that the girls learnt the previous summer wouldn't necessarily have stuck because, like, THEY'RE TEENAGERS, it would have been nice for them to not make the exact same mistakes that they made the previous year. I found myself just waving my hands in frustration at the first book, and yet no one listened to me.

At this point, all I want from the series is for Tibby to get her fucking act together and realise that she should be making out with Brian because he's super sweet and adorable. But I'm guessing we get about 700 more pages of Kostas, aka the dude a 15 year old girl should never have been dating in the first place. Sigh.

(Don't get me wrong, I actually didn't mind this one. But I'm fairly certain it's going to prove to be 100% forgettable in the long run. And I'm not sure if it's because it's more than a little dated now, and YA is a lot more hard hitting, or if it's just because I'm not a teenage girl and therefore relate far more to the adults in the story than the teenagers. So yeah, this one fell somewhere in the middle of the road for me.)

2.5 Stars

I know I'm a hypocrite, but are boys really all that matter? The Second Summer is 90% boy drama, worrying about if the boy likes her back, pining over boys, wondering if she's good enough for boys to look at. Girls, get some hobbies!

This novel is infuriatingly predictable. Around 20% in I made guesses about how the summer would go for each of the girls, and in 3.5/4 cases I was right. Yeah, it's gratifying, but I didn't want to be right. Give me a plot twist, please. (Actually, I was happy with the one (and only one!) that I did get.)

If you haven't recently read the The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants you are going to be very, very lost. I was. The author would drop the names of characters or events or places from the previous book with no context and expect you to remember the role they played.

The writing is generically decent--nothing special. It wasn't bad, but I also wasn't impressed. Something, however, kept me hooked, and I read this almost non-stop, voraciously, from beginning to end.

That said, I don't know that I will ever read the next book in this series. I don't own a copy, so I have no excuse to do so...

This book was about how four girls Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget spend their summers apart from each other but still keeping contact through a pair of jeans. These jeans have been through a lot last summer but this summer they add new experiences and events to them. Through these jeans they learn many things like how to keep a long term relationship and even helps them "fit in" with certain kinds of people while thier in camp. Each girl goes to a different place but the jeans travel from place to place so that each girl has them over the summer for a certain amount of days.

I though this book was alright. It wasn't as exciting as the first one because we didn't know what was coming. I still enjoyed reading it though because I learned more about the girls and their experiences.

I would recommend this book to teens and anyone who likes to travel.

I love these books more and more as the pages go by. This one was filled with so much growth for Carmen oh my gosh!!!! and the tribute to Bailey I actually CANNOT. I love these girls so much and cannot wait to dive into the next book.

(Also, I feel like Lena would heavily relate to Sidelines by Phoebe Bridgers).

The sisterhood series will always be my favorite! Only giving four stars because of the anti-fat bus and stereotypes about Latina people.

Kinda forgot how much I LOVED the first one until I started reading this one. Just so good. I love these characters and their stories are so relatable. Heartwarming, lovely, and full of friendship. Exactly what I wanted/needed. This book counts for OWLs 2020 for Ancient Runes - "a book with a heart on the cover" and for Popsugar 2020 for "a book with more than 20 letters in the title".