This series is so nostalgic for me.

Brought this book along with me to my trip to Vegas two weeks ago and it made a nice addition. YA, so it was definitely an easy read. It's been a LONG time since I originally read these books so it's been interesting reading it now that I am older.

I do still love the story and the idea behind the series even if it does come off cheesy at points.

Looking forward to re-reading the third book next!

Definitely not as good as the first one. I feel like the actual pants were mentioned less, and became kind of a forgotten aspect of the book, like I didn’t care when someone suddenly had them, just seemed thrown in when you knew something big was about to happen.

Lena’s story sucked honestly, Kostos is boring babes, pick yourself up. I love Bee and Carmen’s story, and anyone that complains about Carmen’s anger needs to remember what it’s like to be a teenage girl. I kinda hate Tibby but honestly idk why, I liked her so much in the first book:(

This one annoyed me so much! All the girls, Carmen especially, were a bunch of selfish, egotistical, hypocritical brats! It came around at the end, but Carmen was still thinking things that just made her look unchanged with how her story was. The other girls did, but Carmen, on the outside, yes, gas changed, but not the inside. She was doing this stuff for show. Not like she really wanted to or meant it.

love this books... I wishhh.. I've read this book 15 years ago, would've help me trough my teenage life and how to embrace adulthood with all of the pain and sorrow..., This books show you that it is ok to make mistake as long as you have the guts to admit it and try to correct it as best as u can...
I wish I could be more like bree, inspite of the lost she have been trough, she still have enough courage to open her heart and embrace what ever come on her way...

and lena is one lucky girls who has best friend sorrounded her when the love of her live taken away....

Libby: This is the one where all of the girls realize their moms are real people: B pretends to be someone else in order to hang out with her estranged grandmother (dead mom's mom), Carmen is so insecure in herself that she breaks up her mom and the new bf (despite her dad getting remarried last book and her coming to terms with him allowed to move on), Tibby makes a mocking movie of her mother and shows it to an audience (including her mother with no warning!), and Lena learns that her mother had a love before her father and that she's not so different from her own.

Also, Lena's bf knocks up another girl back in Greece and marries her without telling Lena. Carmen's mom tries on the pants! And Bridget dyes her hair brown for some reason? Maybe to internally process that she was statutory raped last summer at age 15. It's not brought up again. But we do get a little bit of closure and mourning of sweet Bailey, in the form of one of Tibby's mediocre videos being presented as her final project to an audience.

Read by Amy Povich. #booksin23

5

J’ai préféré le premier tome au deuxième, mais celui-ci s’est quand même lu TRÈS facilement!

J’ai accroché sur les citations du premier tome, tandis que celles du deuxième me parlaient moins.

Les histoires des 4 filles en général m’ont moins touché.

La colère de Carmen m’a semblé exagérée. Je me suis moins retrouvée en elle.


De manière surprenante, j’ai aimé le trajet psychologique et la quête de Bridget qui au début me gossait par le mensonge versus dire la vérité, mais au fur et à mesure que le temps avançait, j’aime l’issue de sa situation.

Pour ce qui est de Tibby, je ne sais pas pourquoi mais je ne connecte pas avec cette fille.

Tandis que Lena a eu un été, au départ, très inactif, mais qui a reviré très rapidement. Je me revoyais à cet âge dans un magasin de linges, moi n’ont plus tellement pas vendeuse, mais ça se résume à cela.

J’ai remarqué que les transitions entre les segments de vie des filles étaient beaucoup plus fluides et j’ai apprécié puisque c’était une de mes critiques du tome 1.

Finalement, je ne sais pas si c’est moi mais lorsque je les lis j’ai toujours l’impression de lire des vies de 14-15 ans plutôt que 17, mais bon. Jdevais être précoce ahah!

Rereading all 4 books this summer (after 10+ years) and reading for the first time Sisterhood Everlasting.

Compared to the first book, this summer is about the girls overcoming difficult challenges and a lot of the relationship growth occurred between mothers and daughters, which was an interesting and relatable theme to explore.

- Bridget is looking for healing about her mom (plus finding herself again after last summer)
- Carmen is fighting the idea of her mom dating and finding happiness and love with someone
- Tibby is dealing with her mom's neglect and distantness (plus learning some lessons about what matters in people)
- Lena is feeling some separation from her mom who doesn't want to talk about one of her past relationships (plus dealing with her love and painful relationship with Kostos)

As always, the stories are woven together beautifully and the sequence of events are enrapturing. My heart warms to see the growth and happiness these characters experience and there were definitely some beautiful moments that moved me to tears (we are 2 for 2 on that score now!)

Teenagers are frustrating but I love this series

I wasn't terribly impressed with the first book, but I was interested enough in the characters to want to read more. I am so glad I did!

This book seemed more realistically teenaged-girl, both the good and bad. The girls had to face things in their lives that they could avoid as children, and came out stronger.

Though other people criticized the way that Bee changed, I thought it was actually a pretty accurate depiction of a girl hurt by her early sexual experience. Teenagers experiment with their appearance and stereotype all the time, and Bee did not have a family to try to steer her course.

For whatever reason this book just touched me in a way that the first one didn't. I like book series that age with their audience, and I think this one has really managed to do that.

Didnt enjoy as much as the first one...

I forgot what Kostas did! Ugh!