Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

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

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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, though, each girl has her own mistakes to make and lessons to learn.

Tibby is taking a summer screenwriting course at NYU. At the same time, she takes a big step forward in her relationship with Brian…with consequences that shatter their old ideas of almost blind love. Lena opts for an art studio class at RISD, where she develops a crush on the intense, incredibly talented artist Leo and asks herself whether she has, in fact, actually moved on from Kostos.

Carmen has tagged along with her college friend Julia to a theater camp Julia is excited to attend. In a move completely unlike the invisible background person she’s become over the course of the year, Carmen tries out for a highly esteemed part in a play…and gets it, much to Julia’s dissatisfaction. Finally, Bee is on an archaeological dig in Turkey, where she has feelings for her older, married professor and tries to learn how to miss someone and remember to have a home.

The ending of FOREVER IN BLUE is bittersweet and excellent. It’s realistic, touching, and satisfying, all at once. All the years we’ve loved these four girls, here is one last time to see them mature and learn how powerful their bond with one another is. It’s a bond that can outlast anything, even time and distance, and that is what makes this series so special.

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This series by Ann Brashares starts out very strong and falls off a cliff in the last book. The first two are well-realized, strongly plotted explorations of adolescence from various viewpoints. The last is inexplicable and maddening. Brashares seemed, like Alcott, tempted to have an earthquake

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swallow the girls so she might be finished with them and move on. I'll be interested to read her next book, now that she's put away the pants.

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I read the other three sisterhood books and was looking forward to this one. It was a very quick read but well worth it. The girls really grew up in this book and faced many adult choices. They were not together as often in this book but I think it showed how people change and how difficult it can

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be to stay in touch as you get older and start your life. I know I found this true in my own life. The girls know even though they are not always physically together, they will always have each other. I was sorry the series had to end but it was worth reading.

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This was one of the simplest book I have ever read but it was fantastic.

Although this is classified as a teen fiction book, it was much more adult than the rest in the series. It strtaed off kind of slow and not so exciting but really started to pick up. If you've read the rest of the books in this series you must read this one as well!

The last edition of the Sisterhood books doesn't deliver. Brashares doesn't seem to be into the characters as much as she was in the other books. It's an ok ending that should have been a lot better considering it was the last book of the series.

when i am in the mood for a dumb teen novel, i love these travelling pants books. they are silly but good enough to hold your attention. however, i thought this one seemed rather boring and bland compared to the others, and i could always predict what would happen next. i would reccommend the first

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three books, but this one was unappealing.

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This book actually really upset me. I thought the third book in the series was a good conclusion because everything was working out for the sisterhood. But then this book puts all the girls in dumpy situations when it took them three books to get out of the last dumpy situations. And it was more of

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the same -- I thought they had grown up in the first three books, but then they're back into their old habits from the first book and that bugged. I'll just pretend the series ended with book three.

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The first book aside, these books are like train wrecks: so horrendously awful, but you feel compelled to keep reading them. I'm glad this was the last book of the series because otherwise it would have ended up on my list of discarded teenybob series along with Princess Diaries and Gossip Girls.

The final book in a series of four. Four college girls explore the meaning of friendship!

Unfortunately, the books in this series just aren't memorable enough to carry over from one book to the next; nevertheless, I really enjoy them while I'm in the moment. I enjoy young adult books that are so frank about the complexities involved in friendship and sexual relationships. I'm not sure

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that girls should be given the impression that pretty much everyone has had sex by the time they've made it through their first year in college, as this book might suggest, but I think it's important to note that each girl faces the consequences of her choices and makes changes/grows up accordingly. What I especially enjoy about the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series is the friendship among the four girls... they continue to grow up and in their own directions, but they still maintain the closeness and appreciate just knowing that they have a link that connects them all.

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This book is about 4 sisters all going to collage and having the summer of there lives untill lena's sister Ebby she got mad at tibby and took the pants to greece and lost them. when the sisters go to greece they finaly relize that the pants keped on seperating them so they fineal relized the did

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not want the pants no more.

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like the three books before the fourth and final summer was a quick and easy read. something to let you mind wander. there was a bit of growing up in this book as two of the girls lose their virginity. with a lot of valuable lessons and tied up into a nice bow. i am guessing that the movie that

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comes out this summer will have a part of the 4th book wrapped up in it. totally worth the read if you have followed the series.

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This time it was Carmen's story that didn't ring true for me. It is hard to imagine her withdrawing herself from her friends and becoming so depressed. I was disappointed Win was left out from the picture. Tibby and Brian's relationship was tragic but not overdone. The scene at Tibby's parents'

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party seemed very real. I also thought that Lena and Bridget's stories were believable and had good endings.I wish they were making four movies instead of having the sequel tackle the fourth book. Leaving out what happened in the second and third books will hurt the story a bit.

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This is the last book in an amazing series. That being said, it was probably my least favorite of the four. It just wasn't as powerful or as entertaining as the previous books in the series. I did enjoy the end of the book, it was really appropriate and really tied up all loose ends.

Light and fluffy like all the rest...

I enjoyed this one maybe more than the last one. Brashares did a good job wrapping up all the storylines without leaving things too too neat. I thought Tibby's storyline was the weakest... but all in all a nice fast summer read.

Another good one. I was "satisfied" with the ending although I probably wouldn't have minded if Lena and Kostos got back together. I understand, however, that the author needed to do it this way to show a greater opportunity for growth.

The last pants book is much like the ones before it. The girls learn that it’s up to themselves to keep close to each other, not the pants. Another story of friendship and a fitting close to the series.

The only other book in the series to rise to the same level as the first. A fitting completion of the girls' stories.

Perhaps it had been too long since I read the other three books, or maybe it's just that the book was vague in weird ways, but I felt like I was lost for half of the story. The characters all seemed like strangers to me, totally different than the ones that I remembered from earlier books. It was a

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quick read, but not one that I expect to stay with me over time. I found it somewhat disappointing as a culmination of a series.

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The only reason I rated this book lower than the first three in the series is because I didn't like the ending. That won't stop me from seeking out Ann Brashares' other books.

A good conclusion to the series, however for some reason this installment didn't quite appeal to me on the same level as the first three. I enjoyed the movie (which was based largely on this book) more.

If you like books about girls falling in and out and in and out then you like this book.

Amazing. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants are amazing books, and I was really sad to see the series end. The ending was just right, and left of a wonderful note.