Kricket's review
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
Kricket's review
rating:
bookshelves: 2007, contemporary-womens-fic, nyc
status: Read in August, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: 2007, contemporary-womens-fic, nyc
status: Read in August, 2007
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 that I still like the same books, but now I like to be impressed a little more. I also like to be made to laugh, and that's not happening here either.
2. It's a slow, quiet love story. It almost seems to me like Brashares could have put this in a different time- turn of the century, something Wharton-esque, and the love story aspect would have come out splendidly. Because the characters are so tortured. It still works now, I'm just not used to seeing so much torture in the present day.
3. Several t...more
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 that I still like the same books, but now I like to be impressed a little more. I also like to be made to laugh, and that's not happening here either.
2. It's a slow, quiet love story. It almost seems to me like Brashares could have put this in a different time- turn of the century, something Wharton-esque, and the love story aspect would have come out splendidly. Because the characters are so tortured. It still works now, I'm just not used to seeing so much torture in the present day.
3. Several t...more
I think you summed it up just perfectly. I know that ten years ago, had this was out then, I probably would've loved it. But now, I think it could best be described as "nice". In that sort of "Oh, thanks for the *insert random gift here*, Aunt Mary" way. :)
