Ann Brashares

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four friends One sisterhood Ten years later, the story continues On the cusp of turning thirty, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget are now living separate lives, out on their own. Yet despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

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Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

Despite having jobs and men that they love, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget know something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn't take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can't seem to shed her old restlessness. When Tibby sends the others plane tickets for a reunion they all breathlessly await, it will change their lives forever, but in ways none of them ever expected. The traveling pants are gone, but the sisterhood lasts forever.

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Sisterhood everlasting

Rahmat Junaid

I loved it, the way the girls all got together for each other. Absolutely beautiful story.

Annie

I just felt this was a book to create a perfect ending to the series. It wasn't needed, and through most of the book you believe one thing about the characters that is so out of personality for her so it kind of angers you.

Tracie McMurray

It has been awhile since a book made me cry. I cried ugly tears with this one. My one criticism is the character of Carmen. I finally saw her on the train, but before that she was too different.

Alexis Martinez

I demand a movie! But more importantly, I respectfully and wholeheartedly am begging for a movie because please I would like to see it

Tamara Turner

Can you hear that?
It's the sound of my heart breaking, accompanied by the symphonic orchestra of my loud sobs.
I was soo hopeful at the beginning of the book, but all I got was feels. Ugh. Sigh. Sob.
Wow I'm so coherent

Jessica Coleman

While I am happy that someday did indeed come for Lena and Kostos, and that Bridget and Eric were still together after so long, and that Tibby was with Brian till the day she died, and that Carmen did become the actress she wanted, this book did not have the same feel that the other four did. It might be because it is set 10 years into the future, maybe it was because Tibby was no longer a character like Lena, Bee, or Carmen was.
The book was good, nonetheless. It was a book that, if the series ended with this one, gave me finality. I have a definite glimpse into these beloved characters' lives.
If Brashares did write another book for the Sisterhood saga, I would read it, no matter what, but a 6th book is not needed.

Mahasin S Ameen

Christina Hufford

Delightfully a nostalgic read for me. Admittedly cheesy in parts, and the middle of the book dawdles for a long time as characters think and whine and wallow and don't actually *do* much, but ... I don't know, there was still something inherently charming here. I grew up reading the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, so there was an unexpected, and undeniable, emotional rush in getting to see these characters again, all grown up. 

There are a few things I found odd about the book. Carmen's shallowness, Tibby's prophetic positioning in the plot. Lena had barely anything to do save angst about a boy. Then there was the triteness of everyone having these flawless boys in their lives, who give them thousands of dollars at the drop of a hat and unconditionally love the girls even when treated terribly. I wasn't really fond of the way the preachiness to the pregnancy story. And having a character think the acronym "WTF" took me WAY out of the story for a moment, because ... seriously. come on. what.

And yet. 

I think if I hadn't such strong and fond memories of reading this series as a teenager, maybe I wouldn't have liked this book as much as I did, but I must've watched the first movie two dozen times, and I distinctly remember a terrible night when I was fifteen, disastrously without my inhaler in a house I didn't know well that was made of natural woods which I was, of course, allergic to. I was away from home, surrounded by people I didn't know, couldn't sleep because I could hardly breathe, and I ended up hunkering down in the walk-in closet, surrounded by furry coats and parkas and musty boxes of crap, and read the entire first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book in one sitting. I'm pretty sure I blew my nose (repeatedly) into someone's jacket and never told them about it. So, this series has gotten me through some tough times, and for as cheesy as it is, and preachy maybe, and trite ... it's still got all that god damn charm that makes me want to sit in a closet and cry into clothes that aren't mine and cling to these fictional people that, in lonely times, feel like old friends.

Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) A Novel

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