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A review by eggatha
Dear Friends by Lisa Greenwald
4.0
This book was pretty good and the kid liked it. It delved a lot into the complexities of friendships and how friendships change over time, even for adults. I would like to read a whole book just about the group of older women friends and their decades of drama.
I am glad that she ended up ditching Sylvie at the end, although I don't know if it was believable. I wonder if more realistically she would have kind of tried to hang onto her a bit longer. It was only two months from her first being left out to declaring she was done with her forever. I mean, it was mature of her, and showed growth, but I don't know how realistic it was.
I want to know more about the end of the original frienship with her and Brenna. When she read through her mom's old emails it made it seem like her mom was convinced Brenna was a terrible person, but it never really got explained. I know her mom was written as overly dramatic, so maybe there was nothing there.
ASIDE:
We just started reading another book by the same author, though (11 Before 12) and the first few chapters feel a lot like this book. I am guessing the author included a lot things about her own childhood (Hebrew school, friendship groups having weird nicknames, having backyard S'mores), in both books, but I'm hoping she covers some new ground.
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I am glad that she ended up ditching Sylvie at the end, although I don't know if it was believable. I wonder if more realistically she would have kind of tried to hang onto her a bit longer. It was only two months from her first being left out to declaring she was done with her forever. I mean, it was mature of her, and showed growth, but I don't know how realistic it was.
I want to know more about the end of the original frienship with her and Brenna. When she read through her mom's old emails it made it seem like her mom was convinced Brenna was a terrible person, but it never really got explained. I know her mom was written as overly dramatic, so maybe there was nothing there.
ASIDE:
We just started reading another book by the same author, though (11 Before 12) and the first few chapters feel a lot like this book. I am guessing the author included a lot things about her own childhood (Hebrew school, friendship groups having weird nicknames, having backyard S'mores), in both books, but I'm hoping she covers some new ground.