This book, Sisterhood Everlasting is the fifth and I believe last story in the series. So right now I'm not really going to write a review, it's more like a recommend mini review I suppose. See there's an event that happens quite early on in the book that is major and I believe that I'm not smart enough to write a review about this book without it being spoiler free and interesting. Besides, I really want to voice my feelings about this book and discuss it. So, and bear with me, I'm going to write a little on this book, spoiler free and hopefully this will make you want to read it. And then when you have, you can read my other review that I shall hopefully post soon and you can agree with me or disagree and discuss, which I sincerely hope you will because I'm literally bursting to discuss this book. So here I go!
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting.
Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.
Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.
As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.
This book is set about eleven or so years since we last left the Sisterhood and things have changed. The four have drifted apart, as Carmen says 'growing up is hard on a friendship'. Carmen is a successful actress, engaged to be married to Jones, a man none of her friends like. Lena teaches art and finds herself living in the past, refusing to move forward. Free spirit Bridget now lives with Eric but is constantly moving and can't keep still. Tibby has moved away from them all to Australia with her boyfriend Brian. They hardly keep in contact and what they do have is mostly superficial. It's a lot different from what the sisterhood used to be or what they ever imagined and hoped. Then suddenly Tibby sends the Sisterhood tickets and a invitation for a reunion, and what they find when they arrive will change them irrevocably forever. So that's all I can say about the plot, which I must admit is basically what the blurb says.
This book was beautifully and amazingly written and I loved revisiting the characters from my childhood. It was very realistically written, to the point where I could see these characters emotions and actions in people I know. I must warn those who want to read it though, I don't think I can view or read the previous four books the same way ever again. It's very nitty gritty, raw and emotional and changes a lot of what I feel now when I think of this series. If you want preserve the characters as they were in the fourth book don't read this one.
However that said I don't think anyone who has read the series will not want to read this book anyway.
There's a lot of major and I mean major shocks and revelations in this book, literally sometimes I would stop breathing and reread the passage twenty times just for it to make sense! I cried a lot, and went through many powerful emotions while reading this.
I just want to briefly comment on the cover, the flower one is the cover we have in Australia, I think that the other one suits it a bit more but I was happy with the one I have. I feel it's a little more mature than the previous covers and this reflects the change in the series.
So to conclude my mini review I just want to say I really liked to book but be forewarned that there may be tears and near heart attacks when reading this book:) Also I feel that if you haven't read the previous books you shouldn't read this one first because a lot of it won't make sense, it's definitely more powerful and meaningful if you read it with the other four books in mind and also the other books are really good so you should read them anyway.
I shall try to find time to write my other more detailed, spoiler including review soon and I hope that people will read the book so they can have a chat with me about this book because I really want to discuss it. Sorry for this confusing, all over the place mini review:P
On a side note I'm going to see Harry Potter on Sunday! I'm so excited and scared and sad at the same time. I really want to see it and yet I'm super sad that it's finally going to end. Harry Potter is my childhood and I can't imagine life without waiting for the next installment of either the book or films. I feel that when I finish seeing the movies that there's going to be this metaphysical void in me:D Am I sounding too dramatic? But that's how I seriously feel. I shall write more after seeing the film.
So bye guys!
