So what has raised me from my silence. This gem:
Now, I read Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants when I was about 15 or 16, right when it first came out. And I dutifully followed the series, but by the 4th book, I was getting a bit tired of it all because I felt like the characters were making the same mistakes and having the same crises all over again.
So admittedly, I was skeptical when I found out about about Sisterhood Everlasting. So skeptical that I actually didn't even know it existed until I saw it on the Most Wanted shelf at work. Not knowing a new book in a series I've read is coming out is highly unusual for me. But I thought that for old times sake, I should give it a try. It takes place 10 years after Forever in Blue ends, but I still wondered, were these girls going to be making the same mistakes AGAIN?
Turns out, yes and no. The Sisterhood does make some of the same mistakes they did before, but in the context of this novel, it all makes sense. Life should be messy for these women. This is where they're supposed to be in life.
I'm genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed this novel. It is easily the best (new) book I have read all year.
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm in my 20s now and I can relate to these girls in a way I haven't been able to before. How sometimes we can be lost, even when we're supposed to be adults. Sisterhood Everlasting spoke to me in a way I haven't been spoken to in a very long time.
The whole time I was reading the book, "Arms" by Christina Perri was playing in the back of my mind. It fits the theme so perfectly. Like, eerily so:
This book. This book.
It broke my heart and put it back together again.
It does something completely ballsy in the first 50 pages and makes it work.
It was the first book in a long time that I started and finished in one day.
I loved and devoured every single word.
I haven't felt this content after finishing a book in a long time.
I love it all :D
Books Read: 34/100
Currently Reading: Between books
