With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer.
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Nov 03, 2007
Becky
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I enjoyed this last book in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series. It wasn't quite as un-put-down-able as the first three books, and it had a different sort of feel, which I think makes sense, because the four girls are older, in college, and pulling away from their joined-at-the-hip friendships and younger lives.
As with the other books, I recognized parts of myself in Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena (especially Lena). At times, it was annoying how many questions were asked More...
As with the other books, I recognized parts of myself in Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena (especially Lena). At times, it was annoying how many questions were asked More...
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Sep 14, 2011
Jean
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I guess the Traveling Pants series couldn't go on forever, especially once the girls started growing up and starting college. As a whole, I would rate the series 4/5 stars. I liked each of the 4 girls for their unique merits/weaknesses/struggles, and the concept of a magical pair of jeans that fit each one of them was special. The collection of memories in the way of scribbles, patches and whatnot on the pants seemed like a cool 3D scrapbook. It reminded me of a journal that 3 other high sch
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Sep 29, 2011
Jen
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I’m finished with the Sisterhood series. Reading these books has been like rereading my high school journals -- pathetic and sometimes painful.
They tell the stories of somewhat typical teenage girls making somewhat typical teenage girl mistakes (albeit in atypical places) and therein lies the problem — we usually do not read books to find characters just like us. We’ve already lived through the mundane high school years where everything is drama, drama, drama until it’s over and and a More...
They tell the stories of somewhat typical teenage girls making somewhat typical teenage girl mistakes (albeit in atypical places) and therein lies the problem — we usually do not read books to find characters just like us. We’ve already lived through the mundane high school years where everything is drama, drama, drama until it’s over and and a More...
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Mar 21, 2010
Vanessa
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Fourth Summer of the sisterhood by Ann Brashares is a really good read. It is about 4 young women (Bridget, Lena, Tibby, and Carmen) and how they spend their summer after their first year in college. Each girl has an adventure of her own so there are many places the book takes us; New York, Maryland, Greece, and Turkey. These girls have to deal with all the difficulties of finally growing up. All their lives they have been together and now that they are ste
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Aug 28, 2008
Brittany
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How I Came To Read This Book: I read the first three?
The Plot: The Sisterhood is back one last time as the girls regroup following their freshman year at college. Although they've all moved forward with their own lives, the girls still share their magic pants (year-round in fact, since they no longer attend the same school). Carmen has retreated into her shell under the shadow of her new friend Julia - the two girls decide to go to a theatre production for the summer as interns where More...
The Plot: The Sisterhood is back one last time as the girls regroup following their freshman year at college. Although they've all moved forward with their own lives, the girls still share their magic pants (year-round in fact, since they no longer attend the same school). Carmen has retreated into her shell under the shadow of her new friend Julia - the two girls decide to go to a theatre production for the summer as interns where More...
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May 04, 2008
Jennifer
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FOREVER IN BLUE is truly a bittersweet book! It has a truly amazing story but I'm sad that this is the final book in the SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS series. I never wanted this series to end! It is a remarkable ending to such a great series, though!
Lena: She is afraid that when she finally forgets about Kostos he will reappear. At her college she is taking a summer painting class and maybe she will meet someone new ther More...
FOREVER IN BLUE is truly a bittersweet book! It has a truly amazing story but I'm sad that this is the final book in the SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS series. I never wanted this series to end! It is a remarkable ending to such a great series, though!
Lena: She is afraid that when she finally forgets about Kostos he will reappear. At her college she is taking a summer painting class and maybe she will meet someone new ther More...
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Jan 03, 2008
Ashleigh K
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Forever in Blue by Anne Brashares was one of my favorite books. I liked it because it is never boring. It is easy to follow and has different drama almost every page. You will never want to put this book down because the author keeps you so close to the characters.
This is about four best friends named Tibby, Lena, Carmen and Bridget. They discovered a pair of pants that fit them magically. Over the summer was the only time they wore the pants and even though they each traveled, the p More...
This is about four best friends named Tibby, Lena, Carmen and Bridget. They discovered a pair of pants that fit them magically. Over the summer was the only time they wore the pants and even though they each traveled, the p More...
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Apr 12, 2008
Dawn Michelle
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Ehh.
This is the fourth and last (though at the end of the book, the author hints that she may at some future point revisit these girls) of this series. And to be honest, a lot of the book fell flat for me. A lot of the plot lines are the same (especially with Bee, who's storyline was very similar to book 1 which was kind of annoying to me) and to be honest, some of the "angst" that the girls go through was overdone and rather tedious as well.
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This is the fourth and last (though at the end of the book, the author hints that she may at some future point revisit these girls) of this series. And to be honest, a lot of the book fell flat for me. A lot of the plot lines are the same (especially with Bee, who's storyline was very similar to book 1 which was kind of annoying to me) and to be honest, some of the "angst" that the girls go through was overdone and rather tedious as well.
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Jun 17, 2007
Lucy
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This is the fourth book in the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series, and I suspect it is the last. And just like the other three books before it, the girls are alternately annoying, endearing, totally familiar, and completely human.
In this book, the girls have been away at college all year. Now, the pants aren't just for the summer anymore - they're for all year, because they are apart all year. They are living seperate lives for the first time ever. Lena is in a summer art prog More...
In this book, the girls have been away at college all year. Now, the pants aren't just for the summer anymore - they're for all year, because they are apart all year. They are living seperate lives for the first time ever. Lena is in a summer art prog More...
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Dec 16, 2009
Kate
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I've loved this whole series, although I thought the first was the best, and the third not quite as good as the others. I was happy to find that the fourth was mostly great. These books tell the story of four teenage girls who are lifelong friends, and how their friendships develop and change as they grow up. The characters are nicely multidimensional, only occasionally falling into stereotypes. With four girls to work with, Brashares can have them face a wide variety of adolescent issues withou
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Aug 11, 2011
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This is an all right sequel. If it hadn't had the third book before it, I might give it a better rating. :P I do like what Brashares does with the concept of trying to stay together with your friends after all going your separate ways--you really do have to work at it. While as a whole, perhaps, the book wasn't stunning, it really has some memorable scenes. I absolutely love when Bee goes home and fixes up her family and they cook together. And the depth of More...
This is an all right sequel. If it hadn't had the third book before it, I might give it a better rating. :P I do like what Brashares does with the concept of trying to stay together with your friends after all going your separate ways--you really do have to work at it. While as a whole, perhaps, the book wasn't stunning, it really has some memorable scenes. I absolutely love when Bee goes home and fixes up her family and they cook together. And the depth of More...
Mar 11, 2009
Jazmine
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Each of the girls faces their own challenges during the summer after their freshman year of college. Lena forgets about Kostos as she thinks that she has fallen in love with Leo. Kostos comes back to apologize to her, but she is enraged that he would think that she would welcome him back so quickly. He leaves after yells at him and tells him she has moved on. Bridget enjoys her time on an archaeological dig in Turkey where she also crushes on a professor. In the process she grows up a little and
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Jan 04, 2012
Shweta's Book Journal
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Having read the first 3 books in the series , I read this book just to get a closure about all the characters I had come to like . It had it's share of heartbreaks and fights. It also had some really good sequences where in the girls learn lessons of life , something that will strengthen their bonds of friendship while making them independent of each other, capable of carrying on in life while knowing that they will always have a support system whenever they need to fall back on. Over all it was
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Oct 25, 2011
Kirsti
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A great ending to a truly marvelous series. Here, we see the ending of the pants. A time when the girls have to live without the pants, and without each other. They are now living their own lives, as well do. That friend you confided every thought in high school? When was the last time you picked up the phone and talked for hours, usually about nothing?
But the girls realize something else, that they will never be apart so long as they remember each other. The pants were keeping them More...
But the girls realize something else, that they will never be apart so long as they remember each other. The pants were keeping them More...
Oct 12, 2011
6nardalizj
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it talking about these 4 girl that go there own sepert way for the summer but find these pants that fit each and everyone of them .which was something that was a amazing caus they were all different size . but these special pants had change there life and many ways with love , reashing there dream and making them love them self the way they are. it also help there friend relationship stay together and not fall apart. the pant could of brought then any closer then what they are. when they started
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Oct 10, 2011
Monica
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Ann Brashares's tale of four best friends growing up and facing the trials and tribulations of growing up has long been near and dear to my heart. Though I read the first three installments as soon as they came out, I never got around to the 4th until now (and I'll admit, it's because I really want to read the 5th book Sisterhood Everlasting that just came out). Brashares didn't disappoint as Tibby, Lena, Bee, and Carmen embark on their fourth summer separated from each other, but united by a s
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Mar 06, 2011
Melissa
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This was my least favorite of the series. While you could probably read this one on its own, it would make sense to read the others beforehand. For those not familiar with the series, it revolves around four friends and a special pair of pants that fit all of them. With these pants they experience life and all it has to offer.
In this book the girls have been in college and are doing their different summer activities; but they run into snags as usual. Carmen has found a friend who l More...
In this book the girls have been in college and are doing their different summer activities; but they run into snags as usual. Carmen has found a friend who l More...
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Apr 11, 2010
Lindsay
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It might seem weird that a 25 year old would be reading a book that was written for teens, but that's how I am. I'll read anything, so it only felt right to read the fourth book in the Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants series since I had read the first three, and I'll stick to what I've said before, the first book is still the best. In this one, the girls have just finished their first year of college and are realizing that things aren't always going to be the same, that it's going to be harder
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Aug 30, 2009
Meredith (Austenesque Reviews)
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If you are not familiar with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, this is the last book in the series where four real close friends travel far away from each other but share one thing in common. They can all fit into these pants that look wonderful on each of them. This last book takes place after their first year of college and all of them face the fact that they are changing and what used to be home can no longer be called home.
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Bri More...
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Apr 21, 2009
Steph Su
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To be honest, I felt like FOREVER IN BLUE start off rather slowly and depressingly, but in fact the novel is so astounding and fitting for the final book in this amazing series that I am still reeling from reading it.
The Septembers—Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena—haven’t really gotten together since the summer before they each went their separate ways to college. Now, it’s the summer after their freshman year of college and once again they’re apart, though together in spirit. Still, t More...
The Septembers—Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena—haven’t really gotten together since the summer before they each went their separate ways to college. Now, it’s the summer after their freshman year of college and once again they’re apart, though together in spirit. Still, t More...
Jun 03, 2011
Sam, the night owl
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Mar 24, 2011
Kelly
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This book is the fourth book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. The girls finished their freshman year in college and it is summer again. Tibby attends NYU, Bridget goes to Brown, Carmen is at Yale, and Lena goes to art school in Rhode Island. Bridget starts off in Turkey but then comes home to spend the summer in Georgia with her long lost grandma. Tibby stays at NYU and has a pregnancy scare. Lena is taking some art classes when her love from Greece shows up and surprises he
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Sep 21, 2010
Cupcakencorset
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This fourth book in the Traveling Pants series, subtitled “The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood,” could be subbed more accurately “The Final Summer of the Sisterhood.” And it’s a fitting and satisfying end to a really good YA chick-lit series. I thoroughly enjoyed it, a bit to my surprise, as I had forgotten how much I liked the other three in the umpteen months since I read them. I wept a couple of times in the early part of this book and throughout pretty much all of the last two sections. If y
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Apr 02, 2010
Namratha
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Unashamedly teen, unapologetically feminine and uninhibitedly glorious; “Forever in Blue” is a satisfactory winding-up of the celebrated ‘Sisterhood of The Travelling Pants’ series.
It took me forever to lay my hands on the final instalment…long enough for the magic of the pants to fade and the backstories to dwindle into fuzzy memories. I forgot about Bree’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine, Lena’s lovelorn ramblings, Tibby’s incapacity to open up and Carmen’s sheer vivacity. I forgot wh More...
It took me forever to lay my hands on the final instalment…long enough for the magic of the pants to fade and the backstories to dwindle into fuzzy memories. I forgot about Bree’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine, Lena’s lovelorn ramblings, Tibby’s incapacity to open up and Carmen’s sheer vivacity. I forgot wh More...
May 27, 2011
Haley
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Oct 23, 2009
Xuran
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Well... The reason that i chose this book to read was i saw the movie version of its, and it was a very interesting movie. I was so into it, so that i think the book should be good too. And it was, i must say it was even better than the movie. Many " this has to be in the movie" details of its were skipped in the movie, which didn't make it as splendid as it should have been. For example, in the book, there are many details about how these four girl spend their time together that summe
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Jun 25, 2011
Rebecca
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The final book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. More whateverness. Prob. my favourite story in this book was Carmen's as while it was sort of annoying to see her be all submissive to another girl at the theatre camp she goes to, her turnaround in the end was fab and true to her spirit (god, did i just write that??). Lena and some Dude pose nude for each others drawing class, which is so unlike her charecter, but it was a good storyline, with the exception of that Greek Dude comin
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Nov 23, 2010
Jess
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Although an excellent end to the series, I'm quite distraught that my time with the Sisterhood has come to an end. Although, I want these books to keep going and going, I liked how Ann Brashares ended this series. Enough was answered to satisfy me, and enough was left open-ended to allow my imagination to wander.
At this point in the series, if you've stuck with the girls, I feel like you've already decided whether you like Brashares style or not. I don't think she changes her style th More...
At this point in the series, if you've stuck with the girls, I feel like you've already decided whether you like Brashares style or not. I don't think she changes her style th More...
Mar 21, 2010
Kassandria
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I absolutely hated saying goodbye to the girls! Unlike many books, I found myself actually connecting to each one of these girls, so I didn't ever skip past sections like I will do with some books. The ending was truly bittersweet but leaves so many possibilities for each girl's future. It's funny, because Bridget, Tibby, Carmen and Lena already have these already distinguished personalities from the first book, but with each new step in their lives, you see them show these deeper more vulnerabl
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Jul 29, 2011
I have finally finished the series--and I really enjoyed the read. All four women make a little more progress in their strides toward adulthood. Carmen finally gets her mojo back, and the process of finding it is much clearer here than in the movie, and richer--I am not sure I would have gotten the point when I was 18, but it's good to show it none the less. Lena has the experience of a casual relationship, in order to contrast with her only other love, and seems to have gained from it withou
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