Book Reviews of The Last Summer (of You & Me)

I have to be honest, I loved the Traveling Pants movie and was very excited when this book came out.....it was painfully difficult to read. SO boring, I only kept reading it to se if SOMETHING....ANYTHING would happen. It was a huge dissapointment for me, but maybe my reading tastes are very different............Her style of writing is unique to say the least, but not for me.........sorry all you fans!

I had a hard time getting into this one and at the first I had a hard time discerning when she changed from the present to the past and back again. After the first few chapters I did begin to enjoy the book and although it was somewhat predictable it was a very good story. I enjoyed the setting, the descriptions made you feel like you could actually see the places from the book. Certainly worth the read.

I had high hope for this book. I loved Brashares' Sisterhood series and was excited when she came out with a book for adults. The book was a disappointment, I read it over a span of a weekend and was happy when I got to the last page. The characters are supposed to be in their early 20s but they feel so much younger - they acted more immature than her teen characters in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It seemed that Brashares wanted to try to write something deep and meaningful, but it just was one hyperbolic paragraph after the other.

Ok. Disappointed in her 1st venture outside of the Traveling Pants books.

Started it really slow. But once I got into it I could not put it down. Ended up really enjoying it.

This was a beautiful book! It explores love, friendship, and the ties that bind. A very moving, thought-provoking book.

This is a wonderful book about how childhood feelings affect our adult life and relationships...paired with a beach setting...you feel like you are there with them. Her writing may not be for everyone, but this book was a pleasant surprise.

It started out really slow. But it was a really good book!

Having never read the Traveling Pants series, I had no expectations going in. I thought this was a beautifully written story. It starts off a little slow, but picks up fairly quickly. Loved the depth of emotion for the characters. I would definitely recommend this to a friend.

I really liked this book. Although it had a little bit of a slow start, it was beautifully written. I love a book that can make me cry.

When reading this story it was really slow getting through the characters and what their places in the story was. When I started to get toward chapter 15 is when things started to really happen and then on the story got to be more interesting, more detailed, and things started to happen. The story was about having fun, teasing, funny, joyful, loving, happy, and sadness. Once you get into this story you will find that you can't stop reading it. After I got to chapter 15 I just kept on reading and didn't want to put the books down. This story was very good.

I did not care for this book. I didn't attach to the story line or the central two female characters. It is very rare for me to say this, but I couldn't bring myself to read the end of the book.

I love the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series and wanted to read more by the author, but the style, tone, and content of the book was so different from the other series, I just couldn't get into it. I also need to clarify that I am a Lit major, so I am used to reading a breadth of books from authors, knowing that they will obviously have different reasons for different pieces of literature. This book: not so much.

Also AND REALLY IMPORTANT: If you have a child with a chronic disease, this may not be a good read for you AT ALL. One of the sisters has a congenital heart defect and (spoiler) she dies from it. My daughter was preparing for and undergoing one of her several open-heart surgeries when I was reading this book and it was completely inappropriate reading for me at the time. I had to go back and try it again later (still hating it...) just to make sure I was being fair. I wouldn't even leave it at the Ronald McDonald House for fear that another family with a very sick child would start reading it.

I would not recommend this book at all.

A nice story about a very close relationship between 2 sisters and a neighbor boy who grew up together and the love they shared. It was a little difficult getting started, but I stuck with it and it turned out to be a good book.

Excellent book!

I really enjoyed this story from the author of the 'Pants' books. It is a good summer read with a little more bite to it than her previous series.

Bizarrely the 2nd "sister" story I've read in just a few days... not knowing the exact topic. Sweet, Sad, romantic, a Great summer read... I flew through it!

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