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Reader reviewed by ari

In the second book of the series, we are reunited with Bee, Carmen, Lena and Tibby. Bee heads to Alabama to find the only family she seems to have left, Carmen fumbles with love and tries to keep her mother's budding love from happening, Tibby realizes that the 'cool' kids are really posers and her pal Brian is really the worthwhile one, and Lena re-encounters Kostos after breaking up with him.

This book gets a sort of slow start - didn't hold me as much as the first book until about halfway through. Tibby and Carmen's stories seemed to be lacking - they seemed to be struggling with the same issues as the first book and it annoyed me to have them reinvented in a not-so-disguised way. I really liked Bee finding herself, her mother and her grandmother while .... well, not being herself. I felt she grew a lot and I loved it. Lena also let herself go more and got into a heap of unwanted....drama I guess. I liked that the mothers played a role - we got disagreements and a background of their lives a bit. Once you get into it, it is like reuniting with friends. I like that like the pants, we get reunited with the girls and see them each summer on their adventures. This book isn't one to pass up if you enjoyed the first.