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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
there are too many young girls getting preyed on in this book and the ending made me so mad i simply skimmed the last pages so im not sure if its a dnf or whatever
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel little sad about finishing it.......maybe, its summertime sadness.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I read (and watched) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series as a teenager — they helped me cope with homesickness when I traveled abroad for the first time, inspired a ~Do I want to be her or do I want to be with her?~ crush on Bridget/Blake Lively (hello lesbian awakening), and made me want to go to Greece. So when I finally got to visit Greece this month (and it was as dreamy as I'd imagined), I brought along this first book for nostalgia.
I'm a very different person from the teenage Kam who read this and wondered about her place in the world. Still, I loved finding a piece of myself in each of the four girls:
"Carmen couldn't help glancing at the problems on Krista's paper. She'd taken geometry in ninth grade, math geek that she was, and it was possibly her favorite class ever. Krista was stuck on a proof. Carmen could tell by just squinting across the table exactly how to do it in a minimum of steps. It was weird, her longing to do that proof. Her fingers were practically tingling for the pencil."
"Bridget needed a single focus. She had too much energy, she knew, and a fair amount of raw, undisciplined talent. At almost every point in her life, she needed one simple, unified goal to keep her going forward fast. Otherwise there was the possibility of going backwards, where she did not want to go."
"[Lena] mixed the precise shade of silver, brown for warmth, green, and blue — those olive tree leaves wanted more blue than you would imagine. Each one seemed to. reflect a tiny piece of the sky. The slow hypnosis of deep concentration was passing over her. It was her safest feeling, a state she preferred to stay in far longer than most human beings. She was like one of those strange hibernating frogs whose hearts didn't beat for a whole winter. She liked it that way."
"Maybe, [Tibby] thought as she walked, Brian McBrian was onto something important. Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty levels to go."
I'm a very different person from the teenage Kam who read this and wondered about her place in the world. Still, I loved finding a piece of myself in each of the four girls:
"Carmen couldn't help glancing at the problems on Krista's paper. She'd taken geometry in ninth grade, math geek that she was, and it was possibly her favorite class ever. Krista was stuck on a proof. Carmen could tell by just squinting across the table exactly how to do it in a minimum of steps. It was weird, her longing to do that proof. Her fingers were practically tingling for the pencil."
"Bridget needed a single focus. She had too much energy, she knew, and a fair amount of raw, undisciplined talent. At almost every point in her life, she needed one simple, unified goal to keep her going forward fast. Otherwise there was the possibility of going backwards, where she did not want to go."
"[Lena] mixed the precise shade of silver, brown for warmth, green, and blue — those olive tree leaves wanted more blue than you would imagine. Each one seemed to. reflect a tiny piece of the sky. The slow hypnosis of deep concentration was passing over her. It was her safest feeling, a state she preferred to stay in far longer than most human beings. She was like one of those strange hibernating frogs whose hearts didn't beat for a whole winter. She liked it that way."
"Maybe, [Tibby] thought as she walked, Brian McBrian was onto something important. Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty levels to go."
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
a great nostalgic read!
It was a very good book about girls of all different races going through a summer without each other.
Great coming of age book for teen girls. I delves into a variety of problems that are faced by teenage girls and paints an overall picture of different lives and situations. I like the message in this book about how completely different types of girls that have such varying situations can be such strong supportive friends to one another.