Faze Book Reviews | Forever in Blue

Sweatpants, cords or capris. None of them compare to the pair of magical pair jeans found by four best friends. Being fourth novel in the series of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants this book has a well balanced mixture of comedy and drama to make for one of the best teen-fiction books by Ann Brashares, Forever In Blue.

Once again the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, made up of Lena, Carmen, Bridget and Tibby, are sending the magical pants that fit them all perfectly, to each other in order to keep in touch during the summer. But this summer is different because they have just ended they’re first year at college.
Lena is off at art school and is starting to get over her ex-boyfriend Kostos as she gets involved with someone else but worries that as soon as she forgets about Kostos, will be when he shows up to see her again. Lena is beautiful but quiet and is the least outgoing of the group. Usually she doesn’t want to stand out or be noticed like when she waits 20 minutes outside of the classroom to get a look at a boy in her art class but doesn’t go and talk to him. Carmen feels invisible at college, completely opposite from her usual self so in some hope to become popular she makes friends with an overachieving actress who may not be as friendly as and as supportive Carmen had thought. Carmen likes to stand out and be noticed by her friends and family which is why when she becomes invisible she’ll do almost anything to be seen.

Bridget goes to Turkey to join an archaeological dig where her attention soon turns from her boyfriend who is in Mexico to her archaeological professor who has a wife and kids. Bridget is the most outgoing and sometimes doesn’t have the best judgment when it comes to romance, like when she falls for someone she knows that she can’t have. Tibby avoids her boyfriend Brian, not realizing that he won’t wait for her forever, and she will have to act quickly if she wants to fix her mistake. Tibby is more direct with what she says and how she acts but usually keeps her comments to herself like when she doesn’t tell her best friends how she’s feeling even though she really wants to.

This book was a great read overall, and compared to the other three books in the series it is one of the best because of the quality of the writing and variety of good ideas. The suspense was okay in parts and not so good in others, but the lack of suspense is made up for with the amount of drama. The theme of course is excellent as it usually is with the books in this series, telling the story of the four girls keeping in touch during the summer with a magical pair of pants that fits them all.

The most interesting parts of the novel was Lena’s and Tibby’s part in the story because of the difference they made in the plot and because there was much more character development fort them in this book then there was in all the other books in the series. This was one of the best books from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and is probably the last one, because of how the ending goes, but to find out what happens you’ll have to read the book yourself.

Reviewed by Kaira B.L from River Heights School