This is my first adult book for the summer. Well kind of an adult book. Ann Brashares is the author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. There are four books in the YA series. The books follow four best friends as they navigate the end of high school and the first few years of college. The girls are very different, from different families and with distinct personalities but find love and acceptance with each other as best friends. The final YA book ended with the girls’ storylines seemingly wrapped up and moving into adulthood. This book, sisterhood everlasting picks up with the four characters in the year of their thirtieth birthday. I had read one of the YA books years ago, so I was intrigued by the concept of revisiting the characters in adulthood. There are many times when I reread a favorite series book and wonder what they would be like as adults and where they would be, would all the friends from the Babysitters Club still be friends, and what would their lives be like? For the most part sisterhood everlasting fulfills that for these characters. My only complaint and this is a bit of a spoiler, is why do authors seem to think that friendship between adult women can only be fully appreciated when one of them dies? I can think of half a dozen books I have read that follow this formula. I get this adds some drama and plot to the story but just once can all of them live. I don’t want to read another book where best friends from childhood drift apart and are brought back together only to have one friend die, leaving behind the grieving husband and beautiful children that the friend is committed to helping and raising. If you are familiar with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants I would check this book out but if any of my complaint sounds like a book you have already read, I would skip this one. A note- this book is not for kids. If you have middle school students or even early high school students who read the series I would not recommend this book. 
A book a day for a whole summer= 74 books!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Day 11: Sisterhood everlasting by Ann Brashares
This is my first adult book for the summer. Well kind of an adult book. Ann Brashares is the author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. There are four books in the YA series. The books follow four best friends as they navigate the end of high school and the first few years of college. The girls are very different, from different families and with distinct personalities but find love and acceptance with each other as best friends. The final YA book ended with the girls’ storylines seemingly wrapped up and moving into adulthood. This book, sisterhood everlasting picks up with the four characters in the year of their thirtieth birthday. I had read one of the YA books years ago, so I was intrigued by the concept of revisiting the characters in adulthood. There are many times when I reread a favorite series book and wonder what they would be like as adults and where they would be, would all the friends from the Babysitters Club still be friends, and what would their lives be like? For the most part sisterhood everlasting fulfills that for these characters. My only complaint and this is a bit of a spoiler, is why do authors seem to think that friendship between adult women can only be fully appreciated when one of them dies? I can think of half a dozen books I have read that follow this formula. I get this adds some drama and plot to the story but just once can all of them live. I don’t want to read another book where best friends from childhood drift apart and are brought back together only to have one friend die, leaving behind the grieving husband and beautiful children that the friend is committed to helping and raising. If you are familiar with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants I would check this book out but if any of my complaint sounds like a book you have already read, I would skip this one. A note- this book is not for kids. If you have middle school students or even early high school students who read the series I would not recommend this book. 
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