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Dec 17, 2009

Kricket rated it:

I'm only halfway through with this but I already have some thoughts:

1. If this had come out while I was in high school, I would have LOVED it. You would have seen me clutching it all moony-eyed for days. So when the reviews say that this is for the fans of the traveling pants series who are all grown up now-- no, I don't think so. I think it's for the young ladies who are just getting into the traveling pants. I like to think that I'm still in touch enough with my 16-year-old self th More...

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May 19, 2008

Librarian rated it:

The characters in this book all annoyed the crap out of me. I love you! I hate you! I love you! And hate you! It's a thin line between love and hate, yes. It's also a thin line between me reading this and barfing. They all deserved each other, which was the saving grace of it all.

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Dec 16, 2009

Christina rated it:

This is the author's "first adult" book following her string of "Traveling Pants" novels for young adults. It's about three people -- two sisters and their next-door neighbor -- and summers spent living the island life. Riley's the older sister, outdoors-driven to the point where she eshews "normal" relationships and activities wit which others her age are consumed; Alice, her amazingly beautiful, selfless and smart younger sister; and Paul, the rich, semi-tortured More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Sara rated it:

Quite a disappointment for me, as I've really enjoyed Brasheare's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' series. Or at least the two that I've read. I have a high tolerance for frequently trod tropes if a) I really like the characters (for whatever reason) and 2) the writing is engaging and surprising. Unfortunately, the main characters make me want to hit them over the head with very large bricks - over and over again and I felt that I could see the plot turns coming several chapters ahead of ti More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Adrienne rated it:

I have mixed feelings about this story on one hand I really enjoyed it but on the other it annoyed the hell out of me to the point where this could have been quite easily discarded and casually noted as DNF.

First off it's marked as adult...but it's not, really the only reason that it's been given that tag is because there is some love making and that is the only reason. Secondly the characters are all very immature for their ages (early to mid twenties) I don't know whether thats an More...

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Jul 30, 2008

Cheri rated it:

Eh. Definitely a light and easy read. I found her writing style somewhat annoying. I feel like she was trying too hard to be philosophical or sound intelligent. She's big on using contrasts. Over and over. She would write things like "She didn't know if he needed more or less of her. Maybe neither. Maybe both. Maybe it's always both." It got tiresome. I also had trouble feeling for the characters. Probably because I thought how they handled the situation was completely not be More...

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Jan 18, 2009

Lauren rated it:

This book did amazing things to my stomach. Not in the realms of sculpture, but that roller coaster feeling that dips up and down inside your belly. The essence of nervous, fluttering butterflies you get of talking to your crush or holding hands with a guy for the first time and your palms are all sweaty. It's everything you want in a good book and more. The layers of this story are soft and intricately woven like your favorite blanket given to you by your grandma for Christmas. It's not just yo More...

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Jul 22, 2007

Leah rated it:

Good book. A tear-jerker.

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May 18, 2011

Betty rated it:

After reading this book, I'm just wondering why didn't I read this before ! It has been really long since a book had obsessed me to the point I can't stop reading it, and I can't stop thinking about it.

It's the story of two sisters, Riley and Alice and Riley's best friend, Paul, they have known each other since years. 3 years after their last meeting in their beach house, they're all grown-up and some relationships have changed... But then something terrible happens.

I on More...

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Aug 20, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

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Mar 08, 2009

treehugger rated it:

I have to admit to really loving the traveling pants series, and so I was WICKED excited when a local bookstore had a HUGE sale and I could nab this book at 1/2 price. I sort of horded it for a couple of weeks and waited to read it. The cover was so inviting, I couldn't resist today, the second sunny, warm day of spring here in Asheville.

So...I started and finished it in the same 24 hours, if that tells you anything at all about it.

I didn't love the beginning, the char More...

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Nov 04, 2007

Laurel rated it:

The Last Summer (of You & Me), by Ann Brashares (the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series) is an adult novel which tells the story of three friends/siblings: Paul, Riley, and Alice. Each is in their early twenties, and like the generation they belong to, they’re still on the cusp between childhood and adulthood, trying to figure out who they are and their relationships with each other and the rest of the world.
Riley is especially immature; at twenty-five she still makes More...

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Jun 22, 2008

Paula rated it:

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Aug 31, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

I tried to write some pithy summary here but I didn't have the energy. This book just felt overly overwrought. I would have liked to have seen the three main characters work out their changing relationships with one another, and with growing up, in a more realistic, less deus ex machina, way. Every one is so busy holding back their thoughts, emotions, etc. that I just wanted to scream "Get over yourselves." SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY READ/BE SURPRISED BY T More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Lara rated it:

What an unbelievable disappointment. For those who don't know, Ann Brashares wrote the YA series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which I loved. How is it possible for the YA series to have been so delightful and the Adult novel to be so forced? I found the writing stilted, the character development weak, and my plot expectations unfulfilled. I read 113 pages before accepting the fact that it wasn't going to get any better. I skimmed the last half of the book just to see if anything More...

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Dec 24, 2008

Allie rated it:

This book was very touching. Ann Brashares is such an amazing author. I read this book in the summer reading by the pool, and that is just how this book should be read. It is a light read...but I also cried. If you have read any of my other reviews though, you will see that I cry a lot. So it is possible that I may just have a very soft heart. Haha. But then again it does say, "The Last Summer (of you and me) is a weeper: If you don't grow misty there's some thing a bit shifty about the sta More...

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Mar 31, 2009

Ilse rated it:

This book has about 270 pages. Until page 133, what you get is a description of the character by way of stories on their past together. You really get to know the characters and the way they relate to each other. It's a bit a slow part, but nice to read though. The second part of the book is the sad part. You see the relations getting worse when one of them gets sick. And you hope that everything will be alright in the end... (I won't tell more, because I don't want to spoil).
All in all, t More...

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Mar 09, 2009

Katie rated it:

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Sep 10, 2011

Mitch rated it:

I picked up "The Last Summer (Of You and Me)" by Ann Brashares right before a long car trip and read most of it on the 3 hour ride. At first I had high hopes...but VERY quickly this book that had full of potential goes down the poop tube and becomes a big, fat DUD of a novel.

The story is simple: two very different sisters grew up in New York City and spent every summer at a quaint island home. Now in their twenties, Alice wants to grow up and be a lawyer while her older sis More...

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Aug 07, 2011

Sarah Beth rated it:

I loved this novel.The novel cycles between two sisters, Riley and Alice, and their longtime childhood friend, Paul. While there was something truly tragic about all of the characters, how they yearned for dreams they couldn't attain and emotions they couldn't express, I got really caught up in the love story between Alice and Paul from the beginning. I was heartbroken by Riley's plight, although I felt like she was the least developed of the three main characters thus it was easiest to see bad More...

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Jul 30, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

From the same author as TRAVELLING PANTS, but this book is supposed to be for adults. And it was, to a degree. Older characters, some sex, that is really the only thing that happens when YA authors change it up and write for adults. It was about two sisters and their friend, a boy. Isn't this how all the books start? The boy is friends with the tom-boy older sister who (spoiler alert!) dies. But before that happens, the boy and the younger sister get together but keep it hidden. This book was wr More...

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Jun 20, 2011

Danielle rated it:

I loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Not sure why but I did, and I picked this book up thinking it was her attempt at writing a adult novel and I was sooooooo disappointed in this. I actually bought this barf bag of a book and I want my money back. I picked it up thinking "oh it's going to be like a romance kind of thing" and when I opened up to the first page and started to read...I was immediately bored. I swear if I couldn't sleep one night I would just open this book and More...

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Jun 07, 2011

Charlynn rated it:

In her novel The Last Summer (of You & Me), Ann Brashares, author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, tells the story of three childhood friends - sisters Alice and Riley and their friend Paul - as they struggle to become adults. They met at the beach every summer, and then spent the rest of the year apart, but their bond was never severed, not even when Paul stayed away for three summers during the time when he and Alice were both in college. However, underneath the friendship, there is a More...

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May 16, 2011

Alyssa rated it:

The general overview from the back of the book, "Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, have spent every summer at their parents' modest beach house. And every summer growing up, there is also Paul, a close friend to both girls. Now, after three years away from the island, he's come back. But his return marks a season of change, of unspoken attractions, tragedy, and deep secrets that will launch three friends into an unfamiliar adult More...

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Feb 17, 2011

Clarabel rated it:

Ann Brashares, auteur de la série Quatre filles et un jean, signe un bon gros mélo sentimental, cousu de fil blanc, voilà pour les défauts, mais alors qu'est-ce que j'ai aimé ! J'ai complètement mordu à l'hameçon, j'ai aimé cette histoire d'amitié et d'amour, j'étais toute vibrante d'émotions pour ce que vivaient les personnages, j'étais à leurs côtés, j'avais mon petit mouchoir dans la main, j'étais nouée par les révélations, et puis dégoûtée par certains choix, je ne comprenais pas qu'on puiss More...

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Feb 11, 2011

Angie rated it:

In anticipation of Valentine's Day, I cast around for a good Retro Friday book to review. I wanted one with a compelling romantic storyline, but not one that was necessarily primarily focused on the romance. You know me. Then I remembered this beautiful book I read, oh, almost four years ago, and it struck me as the perfect one to highlight today. I never hear very many people talk about it as anything other than a beach read (at best), and I wonder if it just flew under the radar a fair bit or More...

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May 03, 2010

Emilyandherlittlepinknotes rated it:

Is the plot really important in a book? Maybe for some readers it is, I usually expect a great plot from a crime novel but most of the time what really matters to me is the atmosphere, the dialogue, the overall feeling that a book is able to convey in my day.

I will soon turn 29 and I haven’t read the sisterhood series by Ann Brashares yet, I recently read The Last summer (of you and me) and I loved it (literally couldn’t put it down).

A brief regarding the plot: the book t More...

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Apr 04, 2010

Winna rated it:

I cannot stop raving about this book. To me, this book is a gem that holds a special place in my heart, because it is very perspective, raw with emotions, and just the right book I've been looking for.

I am officially in love with the very mature way Ann Brashares explains her story. The plot, to me, is very simple, the way I like it - nothing overly dramatic, everything falls in place naturally. I love how the author knows each character perfectly - we can't just imagine how they loo More...

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Mar 01, 2010

Alexandra rated it:

This book didn't start out as an easy read for me, mostly because the author likes to use big words and go very descriptive, deep, and philosophical in her style of writing. It's very different from the Sisterhood series, although also somewhat reminiscent of it in the way that Ann Brashares's stories always try to teach us something and to look deeper under the surface and touch deeper issues rather than the usual typical teenage stuff. The book might sound very pretentious to some, so if you'r More...

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Jan 12, 2010

Jennefer rated it:

I really enjoyed this book but the entire story is tinged with sadness. This was supposed to be her first novel for adults but it still was addressed towards a younger audience altho their were some more "adult" scenes the issues still came from a much younger perspective. There was a lot of nostalgia for the three characters and their past growing up together. The climax in the middle of the book is not entirely unexpected but the entire second half of the book until the very end is More...

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