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A review by acanthae
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I hated this book the first time I read it. I still honestly kind of hate this book. The reasons:

  1. Bee's storyline in this is only slightly different from her book 4 story. All the character development from that story is just lost. It's explained away off-screen, but as a reader it feels frustrating and like the author didn't know how to write Bee without making her emotionally 15 again.
  2. Having Bee, Lena, and Carmen think Tibby killed herself throughout most of this book is cruel. It's unneeded. It's drama for the sake of drama. I don't have a problem with Tibby getting sick and dying young. I don't. But being denied her voice in favor of a terrible "she disappeared and killed herself maybe" gimmick ruins this book. It is ruined. It is a bad plot device and makes the book bad. There is another book in another universe where the sisterhood came together in Greece and met Tibby and she got her hospice ending surrounded by love and it would have been a harder book to write because of that, but it would have been an actually good book. I will die believing this book was the easy way out.

Honestly, I think I liked this book more the first time I read it because I was 21 and didn't know any better, and even then I still didn't actually like it.
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