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You can read the same book at two different points in time and come away with totally contrasting opinions. When I first read “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood”, it was immediately after riding on the high created by the first. I had great expectations…eager to know what Bridget, Lena, Tibby and Carmen had cooked up this time. But I came away with a feeling of “umm-yeah-okayy”. Then the slump took an upturn with Girls In Pants: the Third Summer of The Sisterhood, which made me write a glowing review and be quite scathing about the middle-child!
But today, in my slightly whimsical mood, The Second Summer turned out to be “yep-SO-true!!”. The four disparate friends are back for a second season of reaping the magic of “The Traveling Pants”.
Bridget ‘Bee’ decides to take a breather and head off to Alabama, the home of her estranged maternal grandmother. She needs to have questions of her deceased mum answered and decides that the best way to do so is go incognito (which isn’t hard considering that she has put on oodles of weight and dyed her glorious hair a muddy shade of brown).
Carmen has to digest the unpalatable fact that her divorced mum is falling in love, can be as giggly as a giddy-headed teenager AND has the absolute temerity to borrow THE PANTS for a date!!
Tibby has headed off to Williamston College for a film-course. In a typical attempt to impress two seemingly-cool classmates, she ignores good but geeky friend Brian and makes a documentary ridiculing her mum.
Lena who was madly in love with Kostos the past summer has promptly broken up with him. Severing ties seems to be much better than dealing with the uncertainites of love.
Predictable agony, stress and nail-bed damage. But there’s also a sense of stoic acceptance.....the need to change and for the better. The friends make mistakes, act appallingly, realise their shortcomings and continue to bolster each other’s sagging spirits.
On the whole, a fat satisfying read for those days when you need something dramatic and yet not over-powering.
On the whole, a fat satisfying read for those days when you need something dramatic and yet not over-powering.
For reviews on the other Sisterhood books, please click on the following links:
> The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants
2 comments:
This series has been anong my favs. I really really loved the first book and I think the last one was absolutely well done. Have u read Forever In Blue.
Found ur blog thru Goodreads. We do have similar taste in books :)
Yep, very similar tastes! :)
Quite fond of this series too....one of the better coming-of-age books I have come across.
Haven't laid my hands on 'Forever-In-Blue' yet...need to know how the four wind up (...and NOT in Wiki's staccato version) :)
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