The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 2)
by Ann Brashares
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Author: Ann BrasharesEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-23
ISBN: 0553495011
Number of pages: 448
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Dell Books for Young Readers
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- ISBN13: 9780553495010
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Book Reviews of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 2)
Book Review: Lazy writing
Summary: 1 Stars
I enjoyed the first book -- the adventures of the girls as they wrestled with early adulthood -- so I was very much looking forward to the sequel. Unfortunately, this book was largely phoned-in; the author's laziness is apparent in the fact that she replicates, almost entirely, one of the plot points of the first book (Carmen, apparently not learning ANYTHING from the summer before, tries to sabotage her mother's new romance...hmm, where have we seen THAT before? Seriously Ann, you couldn't come up with ANYTHING more original?).
Also, a variety of challenges seem to MIRACULOUSLY resolve themselves in such an unrealistically convenient way that it can be attributed to nothing more than the author trying to quickly & sloppily tie up loose ends. Some of the characters remain quite immature -- Lena and Carmen especially. The girls tend to veer wildly between stubborn immaturity and wise insight --- and NEITHER end of the spectrum feels authentic... The most compelling character in the series, Tibby, gets only a few passing thoughts in her frustratingly predictable story arc.
I feel like I spent more time reading the book than the author spent trying to come up with new ideas and realistic character development. It's a fun, "lite" summer fairy tale that is a faint carbon-copy of the earlier book.
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Summary of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 2)
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With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once.
Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making the unexplainable silence that follows his visit even more painful.
Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mother borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she's certain of it.
Tibby: Not about to spend another summer working at Wallman's, she takes a film course only to find it's what happens off-camera that teaches her the most.
From the Hardcover edition.
Teens who loved Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) will cheer its equally riveting sequel The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. As in the first novel, four teen girls who have known each other since birth (their moms shared a pregnancy aerobics class) further forge their bond of friendship through a pair of thrift-store jeans that magically, impossibly, fits them all perfectly.
Like the summer before, Carmen, Bridget, Tibby, and Lena share their individual adventures with the Pants collective, creating an engaging, kaleidoscopic narrative of four voices. This summer, Tibby attends a film program in Virginia and Bridget (Bee), whose mother has died, impulsively jets off to Alabama to get reacquainted with her estranged grandmother. Lovely Lena tries to protect herself from the heartbreak of loving her long-distance Greek god boyfriend Kostos, and Carmen deals (poorly) with her mother dating again and having the nerve to borrow the Pants!
The Second Summer, while breezy and fun to read, deals seriously with love lost and found, death, and finding the courage to live honestly. The teens' lessons are often painful, but the Sisterhood prevails. Quotations from luminaries such as Charlie Brown ("Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love") to Nelson Mandela ("There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered") open each chapter and cleverly reflect the novel's many moods. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson
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