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Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood (2006)

Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2006)

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Another great book in this series! Although, admittedly, maybe not as good as the rest.The fabulous Bee is back with a vengeance. At the end of book 1, Eric made her lose her spark. So book 2 was all about her learning to love herself again. Now, the Bee I fell in love with in book 1 was back! And, so was Eric. So, we had exactly what I wanted - awkward sexual tension, flirting, stress, and gossip with the girls. It didn't end how I wanted it to. I won't tell you what happened, of course. But I had a way I wanted it to end, and they chose to take the predictable route instead. Lucky she's so great, so I can forgive her.Carmen has by far grown up the most. For the first two books, she whined about EVERYTHING. In fact, I kind of hated her for it. And at the beginning of this book, I was prepared for the same rubbish all over again. Her mum has just got married, so she's overly angry about that. But she realised that actually, her mum deserved to be happy. She did adorable things like looking after her in pregnancy classes when David was away. I really liked her for that. Plus, she met Win. Win was a fantastic love interest for her. He saw the good in her, which helped Carmen see the good in herself. Hooray! Win is probably my favourite boy in the book, he's so cute. Especially with the little kids (like Katherine).Tibby didn't have her usual spunk. She spent most of this book feeling sorry for herself. Which meant she couldn't accept that Brian loved her, she couldn't look after Katherine and Nicky like they deserved, she couldn't get into her film making, and she couldn't do anything that made her slightly happy. It kind of annoyed me. Especially with Brian, because they're PERFECT. She grew a lot by the end. It was just all the rest that upset me. I understood she blamed herself for what happened to her baby sister Katherine. And I understood she was going off movies because she was watching them a thousand times. But that's no reason to be unhappy. Lena did crazy big character development with her family, and in part with herself (though not as much as Carmen). First, there was the art classes she was taking, and that went terribly wrong. She coped with it incredibly well, I thought. Second, there was the art portfolio she did of her family. She got to know them so much better than she did before. I absolutely loved seeing the interaction between them all. Especially with her grandmother, Valia. Poor Valia had been dragged out of Greece, and was absolutely miserable. Lena helped her with a lot of her pain, and even talked to her scary dad about letting her go home. I really loved seeing the relationship between those two. In this book, Lena might have been my favourite.There's only two books of this series to go. I'm so scared of saying goodbye to my lovely girls. I'm also scared they're going to get worse from now. But with that sweet ending, it looks like it'll stay just as amazing.

Just to warn you, I might criticize this book a little more than I usually would. I think I have read too many bad reviews on this book. THERE ALSO WILL BE SPOILERS This is the third summer of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It again revolves around Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget. They just graduated from high school, and are enjoying their last summer together. But there are big surprises in store for each girl. Bridget is back at the soccer camp, this time as a counselor. She finds out there that her old crush, Eric, is again a counselor. Carmen is working for Lena's grandma, and that doesn't go very well. Carmen also gets a big shock when she finds out that her mom is going to have a baby. Tibby is living a boring life working at the movie theater. Her little sister gets hurt as well. And Lena is having trouble trying to stay away from her grandma, and convincing her dad that she wants to be an artist. Overall, it was an OK read. However, if I were Ann Brashares, I would have ended the series with this book. Before going on Goodreads to review this, I thought it WAS the last book in the series. It sure sounded like it was going to be. The characters still act like little kids, more like 14 than 18. This book didn't really have a plot. It just followed the character, which isn't really my type of book. It was also kind of unrealistic. I mean, how does Lena get the art scholarship if her parents have enough money to pay for it. She also gets her application in at the last minute. I used to think Tibby was the most interesting character, but she was too cliché in this book. Carmen acts like a five year old when she finds out her mom is having another kid, but of course she comes through in the end. I mean, she shouldn't let that affect which college she goes to. Don't worry, I don't have quite as many complaints about Bridget. She was my favorite in this book, even with her love life. She actually acts eighteen and is more mature than in the first and second books. The pants weren't as big of a deal in this book. They were just there. I do get the point Ann Brashares was trying to make about going off to college. It is a big deal, and it could be the end of the group's friendship. There were some more mature scenes in this book, and a more dramatic ending. I know I haven't read as much because I've been busy, but this book dragged out and took a while to finish. There also were some sweet spots were I realized why I liked these books so much. All in all, this book could have been so much better, yet it still was an okay book. I am not sure whether or not I will read the fourth book or not.

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The “Traveling Pants” books are brain candy, although I felt that the first one was more like a good Swiss chocolate bar while the subsequent ones were more like eating marshmallow fluff with a spoon. I agree with the reviewers who found Bee to be their favorite of the four girls. She’s definitely the most authentic; the other three girls felt flat and pretty much interchangeable, less so in the first book but increasingly as the series continued. I also thought Bee’s story in this book was the most interesting of the four – working as a camp soccer coach, she meets the older guy she impulsively seduced at fifteen when she was not ready for the experience. Naturally, reuniting with him as a more mature young woman evokes complicated feelings – embarrassment and shame about her earlier behavior and what it led to; confusion about how to relate to him, especially once he reveals that he now has a girlfriend; and pain at the feelings she continues to have for him knowing she can no longer pursue him since he’s taken and she’s too mature in any case to behave the way she did earlier. The other three storylines, I felt, were not only hackneyed but a bit of a stretch: Tibby’s old friend Brian admits to having feelings for her which she returns but is scared to express (oh, come on already); Carmen meets a gorgeous (of course) guy who gets the mistaken impression that she’s some kind of good Samaritan and she’s afraid to set him straight (it really shouldn’t have been that big a deal); Lena’s father decides he doesn’t want her to go to art school so now she needs to pursue a scholarship, and she basically spends the entire book drawing. Bo-ring. I was in the mood for something light to space out with, and for that, “Girls in Pants” was adequate, I guess. I’ve definitely read better space-out books, but I’ve also read ones that were too stupid and unbelievable and/or poorly written to finish despite my wish for something fluffy; this one didn’t fall into that category, for the most part. But I wouldn’t tell anyone to rush out and read it, unless they really enjoyed “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood” (which already showed signs of strain, in my opinion) and are dying to read further adventures of the girls.
—K

The third summer of the sisterhood takes place before their freshman year of college. This is an important time in their life and they are anxious for their futures. Everyone this summer is staying in Bethesda except for Bridget who attends soccer camp in Pennsylvania where she is reunited with Erik, her heartthrob from two summers ago who changed her forever. This time though after creating a friendship they pursue a relationship together. Brian and Tibby are in love, but Tibby is afraid they will lose their friendship. In the end, she lets go of her fears when she learns that sometimes you just have to take the chance when her younger sister, Katherine, is injured. She falls out of Tibby’s window, which Tibby opened, when reaching for an apple belonging to the apple tree behind their house. Against her father’s desires Lena wishes to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, so, without his financial support she works hard to win a scholarship. Later, he apologizes and gives her his permission though she doesn’t need it, but wants it. Carmen discovers that her mother is pregnant, and chooses to attend the University of Maryland to stay close to home, but after the baby is born she realizes she should follow her dreams and “re-enrolls” to Williams (she doesn’t think her parents ever took her out). Her summer job is to watch Lena’s homesick, newly widowed grandmother, Valia. Despite their disputes Carmen ends up caring for Valia and persuades the Kaligaris to let Valia return to her beautiful, Greek island. Carmen and a boy, Win, develop a strange relationship which Carmen feels guilty about because she thinks she is giving this false impression of her being some saint who volunteers all the time when really she thinks of herself as a pretty awful person. In the end, she discovers that “Good Carmen” is a part of her, too. The foursome end their summer with a trip to the beach where they each present each other with gifts for remembering their everlasting bond. tOnce again, I was engrossed in the “girls in pants’” compelling journeys. It was romantic, credible, bittersweet, and full of much change. The characters were developed to a degree where they felt like long, lost friends. The relationships were strong and the author kept my attention with her perfectly built suspense. Lovely imagery allowed me to visualize everything that occurred. I can’t wait to read the next and final book.
—Jazmine

I enjoyed the movie of the first book, so I picked up the second and third books to read. I got them in the french translation because I figured that I might as well be learning something if I'm going to read fluffy books.The second book was ok and managed to keep my attention, but this one was a total flop. I kept reading online how all the books are so much different from one another and that this one is the best one of all. They are not different! In any way! See formula:1) The girls are sad about splitting up for the summer.2) They go wherever they're supposed to go anyway and start to enjoy themselves.3) Things turn bad and we flip between Tibby being morose, Carmen's boy troubles, wishy-wasy Lena trying to make a decision, and Bee being an emotional spaz4) They get over their problems, reunite, and none of us can remember why they are friends in the first place because they have absolutely no chemistry and nothing in commonThe end.Safe to say I didn't like it. I was only glad to have a conclusion for Bee and Eric.
—Allegra Hailey Green

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