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    Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

    Written by Ann Brashares

    Narrated by Angela Goethals

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    About this audiobook

    The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.

    With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen, here and now, past and future, together and apart.

    Pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself.


    "Genuinely moving." -Entertainment Weekly
     
    "A strong, satisfying conclusion." -Booklist    
                                                                                   
    "An ode to love and friendship." -Kirkus Reviews

    "A great read." -Daily News (New York)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 9, 2007
    ISBN9780739339435
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    Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
    Author

    Ann Brashares

    Ann Brashares is the author of the phenomenal five-million-copies-selling series of young adult novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls In Pants, and Forever in Blue, and the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Last Summer (of You and Me).

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    Reviews for Forever in Blue

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    • 4/5
      The ending of every Sisterhood book had me in tears. Even if it is basically the same ending over and over. I'll be re-reading these for a really long time.
    • 3/5
      I think the first book will always be my favorite. This book seemed to be full of overdramatized moral dilemmas and it kind of annoyed me. I like the ending where they realize that the pants are no longer needed but that's about it.
    • 5/5
      I could not put this one down. I went to read maybe fifty pages before bed, and suddenly my day off was gone! In every book the girls have set out to learn about themselves and grow as people. In this book they really learn to grow as adults. It's interesting that part of that growing involves the relationships they've developed during the series (except for Carmen, of course). I'm afraid this may be the last book, but I hope that more will come up in the future!
    • 4/5
      Lena is in painting classes where she meets a friend who helps boost her self-confidence until someone from her past shows up. Bridget goes to an ancient dig in Turkey and finds it difficult to be a girl with a boyfriend. Tibby does something terrible to the person she loves. Carmen gains a friend who drags her into theater and doesn't know what true friends are. In the end, they find out what means the most to them.It starts out a little slow, but once it gets going it's pretty good. I liked it for the most part but was disappointed by the ending. One ended up with someone I thought she shouldn't go back to. Then the "sisters" lost something special to them.
    • 4/5
      I love this series, mostly because one of my childhood fantasies was to live in one place for my whole life and grow up with the same friends. I'm happy with all the moving around I've done, but these books fulfill that childhood fantasy for me, in a way.

      I read this, the last book in the series, in a couple of hours. The end was a little abrupt, especially for being the last book, but it was a lovely story nonetheless.
    • 3/5
      The girls are now in college and it seems like they have grown up slightly but still the same girls. I recommend reading these books all in a row to keep the characters fresh in your mind. This one isn't bad.
    • 2/5
      READ IN DUTCH

      I don't know why I got a part four in a series (without part 2 and 3) but, as the story is almost the same in every book (or so I'm told) it doesn't really matter.

      I've only read the first book and this one, and it already felt repetitive. I wouldn't recommend it.
    • 5/5
      [Thursday, February 16, 2012] As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.

      From Bridget's point of view.

      I loved the whole series, I read the first 3 books but I wanted to read other things so I took a break and now I am back and I want to finish the last book in the series.
    • 4/5
      The girls have had the travelling pants for four years now, but they are finding it harder and harder to get together, as they have all gone their separate ways now, and are rarely "home" at the same time, anymore. This summer, Carmen has gone to a summer "camp" to help with sets for a play, but ends up doing more than what she originally bargained for. Bee is in Turkey on an archaeological dig, and though she still has a boyfriend back home, finds herself attracted to someone else there. Lena is taking an art class and is attracted to one of the older painters in the class. Tibby is enjoying her relationship with Brian, maybe a little too much, until things take a turn for the worse.This was very good. I really enjoyed this one and often wanted to keep reading. I think it was a fitting end to the series.
    • 4/5
      Lena is in painting classes where she meets a friend who helps boost her self-confidence until someone from her past shows up. Bridget goes to an ancient dig in Turkey and finds it difficult to be a girl with a boyfriend. Tibby does something terrible to the person she loves. Carmen gains a friend who drags her into theater and doesn't know what true friends are. In the end, they find out what means the most to them.It starts out a little slow, but once it gets going it's pretty good. I liked it for the most part but was disappointed by the ending. One ended up with someone I thought she shouldn't go back to. Then the "sisters" lost something special to them.
    • 5/5
      I have listened to all of the "pants" novels and loved them all.
    • 1/5
      This series by Ann Brashares starts out very strong and falls off a cliff in the last book. The first two are well-realized, strongly plotted explorations of adolescence from various viewpoints. The last is inexplicable and maddening. Brashares seemed, like Alcott, tempted to have an earthquake swallow the girls so she might be finished with them and move on. I'll be interested to read her next book, now that she's put away the pants.
    • 2/5
      Finished in one evening. I needed something that would not be taxing, and I wanted to see what happened to the four girls.... I read the first book as 'research' for teaching young adult english, and somehow got sucked in. This one tied up loose ends nicely, but had too many quasi-philosophical passages about love for my taste.
    • 3/5
      The biggest difference in this is that after three books of seeing these girls as they are with each other is that you finally get to see what happens when they don’t have a three-month separation. I actually liked the differences in their personalities (with the exception of Tibby, she doesn’t really change much)—Carmen becomes more withdrawn; Lena tries to become more outspoken; Bridget, while still reckless, actually weighs her situation and tries to confront the consequences. Tibby’s story was the strongest this time, as the losing her virginity and all of the fears seemed very realistic to me. While I liked the ending of letting the Pants go, the only thing I didn’t like was the huge trip to Greece to hunt them down. However, since this was the grand finale to the series, it did seem like a fitting tribute, and I very much enjoyed this.
    • 2/5
      Thank god this is the last Traveling Pants book. I’m tired of these characters. I’m tired of them doing random things that I really don’t think they’d actually do, and being okay with it. The only one I really believe is Tibby-—I think she has her little (and big) freak-outs in a very realistic way, over very realistic situations. The others? I don’t think I’ve ever believed any of their issues. Anyway, it’s over now, and hooray.
    • 4/5
      Forever in Blue is the fourth Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novel, and, at the time, was thought to be the final book in the series. With that in mind, Forever in Blue does a great job at tying up all the loose ends of the series and leaves the readers with a sense of what the future holds for our favorite girls without leaving us with tons of questions.As I've said in other reviews for the book series, in each book I usually find one girl to really latch on to as her story is the most compelling. This time, however, Ann Brashares knocked it out of the park. Each story line is interesting and very well-written. Each girl has tough situations that she is working through and, of course, learning from. From Turkey to New York City and everywhere in between these girls are laughing, learning and growing, and if you have been reading from the beginning, it is like watching women you've known since childhood grow up before your very eyes. Bittersweet, but exciting and new!As an older reader of the series (i.e. mid-twenties), I feel like this book resonated the most with me. The girls are all grown up. They aren't the young teenagers that we first met them as. They're in college now, and their problems are far more adult than they were in the beginning. Tibby is faced with the shock of her life when she wonders if she might be pregnant. Lena is finding that she might finally be over Kostos, and that leads her to break out of her inhibitions with a hot and talented artist. Carmen is learning that she has a flair for the stage and she should always let her light shine, even when there are others trying to extinguish it for their own gain. And Bridget is trying to navigate the waters of her relationships with her family and Eric during her summer in Turkey where she gets caught up in a would-be affair with an older, married professor.I found this entry in the series to be far more introspective and, in some ways, poetic than the others. Brashares really delved into the heart of these women and these friendships. Her voice as a storyteller is rich and full of unexpected insight and realizations. Reading her novels is like a comforting cup of cocoa for the soul (or perhaps even a nice glass of red wine). She's frank and doesn't shy away from the ugly stuff or the adult stuff. I've seen several complaints about the amount of sex in the book. It put me off a bit at first, too. When we met these characters they were just out of being little girls. What readers need to remember is that these characters are women now. They are in college and, frankly, the girls having intimate relationships isn't surprising or uncommon. Brashares has never shied away from these topics and she's never sugar-coated the girls' lives or attempted to hold them up to some conservative moral standard. For those who may read the books, the scenes are chaste and the acts are not described like you would see in a Harlequin romance novel. As I've said, the novel is more introspective, so the acts are really more deconstructed after the fact so that the characters can deal with the aftermath and where it has left them. It's honest and it is real. There are so many other YA novels that are far "worse".In the end, I feel like the main four books ended on a high note. I think this one might be my favorite of the whole bunch. I would definitely recommend that other Pants fans pick this one up as it really does tie up all the loose ends so you aren't left with many frustrating questions. I'm so excited that Brashares did end up writing a fifth book and I can't wait to pick up a copy for myself! Long live the Sisterhood!
    • 4/5
      The four friends, Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget, have been spent the last few summers apart, but since college/university they've spent more of the year apart as well. Can the pants reunite them? Forever In Blue is a wonderful, but bittersweet conclusion to the Traveling Pants series.
    • 5/5
      I really liked the movie. The book is the same, the characters come for the summer and hang out. Then later the pants are gone. It was a good book.
    • 3/5
      I told you I'd finish the series, just in time to learn that another book is out, or will be out soon. This was my least favorite - too much premarital sex! That seems to be all 3 of these girls think about. The girls are off at college now, getting on with their lives. In the end, the Pants are gone, never to be found again, which is symbolic of their changing lives. Again, I'm also struck by how "perfect" these girls are - top schools, good grades, definitive talents, etc. etc. A quick, easy read, but I won't reread these. This one, I wouldn't even recommend.
    • 5/5
      The last book of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series. It's so good! Of course all of the old characters are back, separated for the summer. I thought it was a really great way to end the series.
    • 5/5
      I really loved the first movie of this book (and of course the books)...but the second movie, it seemed to me like it's been rushed out.
    • 4/5
      3 girls go away from there family spend the whole year togher
    • 4/5
      Having read the first 3 books in the series , I read this book just to get a closure about all the characters I had come to like . It had it's share of heartbreaks and fights. It also had some really good sequences where in the girls learn lessons of life , something that will strengthen their bonds of friendship while making them independent of each other, capable of carrying on in life while knowing that they will always have a support system whenever they need to fall back on. Over all it was well written book with no questions or situations left hanging in air.Ann Brashares made sure it was complete in every sense and also it left me feeling really good at the end of the story .That feeling at the end of any book is a good sign for me :) That means I am going to keep this book and not pass it on .My most loved character in this book and all through the series has been Lena (whatever flaws you might find in her ,I always liked the way she was portrayed . )It wasn't my favorite amongst the 4 books but a great one nonetheless.Recommended to all those who like friendship themed books and Teen fiction..
    • 2/5
      This time it was Carmen's story that didn't ring true for me. It is hard to imagine her withdrawing herself from her friends and becoming so depressed. I was disappointed Win was left out from the picture. Tibby and Brian's relationship was tragic but not overdone. The scene at Tibby's parents' party seemed very real. I also thought that Lena and Bridget's stories were believable and had good endings.I wish they were making four movies instead of having the sequel tackle the fourth book. Leaving out what happened in the second and third books will hurt the story a bit.
    • 4/5
      The only other book in the series to rise to the same level as the first. A fitting completion of the girls' stories.
    • 3/5
      Perhaps it had been too long since I read the other three books, or maybe it's just that the book was vague in weird ways, but I felt like I was lost for half of the story. The characters all seemed like strangers to me, totally different than the ones that I remembered from earlier books. It was a quick read, but not one that I expect to stay with me over time. I found it somewhat disappointing as a culmination of a series.
    • 4/5
      A good conclusion to the series, however for some reason this installment didn't quite appeal to me on the same level as the first three. I enjoyed the movie (which was based largely on this book) more.
    • 5/5
      If you like books about girls falling in and out and in and out then you like this book.
    • 2/5
      The only reason I rated this book lower than the first three in the series is because I didn't like the ending. That won't stop me from seeking out Ann Brashares' other books.
    • 5/5
      The last pants book is much like the ones before it. The girls learn that it’s up to themselves to keep close to each other, not the pants. Another story of friendship and a fitting close to the series.