This is a fairly good story, tackling many of the thorny issues adolescent girls face in modern life in a kind and thoughtful way. I think the tangential connection to the original sisterhood is gimmicky, and this story would've been better off as a standalone. It's not related to the original books enough to be meaningful, and a reader is more likely to be disappointed with the tenuous connection Van anything else.

I liked this story but not as much as the Sisterhood series. The characters were interesting and mostly likeable. Their problems and the outcomes were realistic, and I enjoyed the watching each character grow. It was nice that the MCs of the Sisterhood were mentioned, and one made a brief appearance.

DNF I started the first chapter and was instantly bored. I feel like some authors tend to finish series too early when things are getting started or end it at the perfect satisfying moment. But this book was extremely unnecessary. I wish the author took a different route than trying to water down the original SOTP into a sad version. The characters resemble SOTP which is boring, because she is trying to reuse the same type of people. This book is extremely unnecessary and a watered down Sisterho...

If there’s one thing that bothered me about the sisterhood of the traveling pants, Its this- their friendship is too perfect. I love those books, but things come so easily to them when they’ve been besties since birth.Three Willows explores the foundations of friendship- and our girls don’t share a bond at all. They have fascinating personalities that are nothing like Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bee. Most of the book follows the girls’ individual summers and their trials. It isn’t picture perfect- i...

The book 3 Willows by Ann Brashares about three girls named, Jo, Polly, and Ama. In the book the girls go their own separate ways for the summer. Polly is questioning herself and her looks and decides to try out for modeling. Jo, is at her family beach house for the summer and works as bus girl, and meets cute boy that changes her. Meanwhile Ama is an a outdoor sleep away camp, and is miserable and in tears. The internal conflict for Polly is that she worries that friends are growing up to fast

I am just a little disappointed. As the story was good and I was able to relate to the girls on some level of when I was 14 it’s not what I wanted. I knew this wasn’t about the sisterhood. I knew it wouldn’t be the same story. It just didn’t give me the same feeling I was hoping to feel. A good read, especially if you love the sisterhood of the traveling pants. It just fell a little short for me.

3.5/5 starsThis was a great summer read.The story is good, but not nearly as engaging or emotional as the one from the "original girls". I was very annoyed with the characters at times, as they were beyond juvenile and most of their choices made me cringe with second hand embarrassment. But as the story progressed- so did the characters, each in their own way.Overall, I don't feel like this book is necessary to the series, at all. This is just a side story. Something to stretch out the books. Bu...

4.5 starsIt’s somehow at once more heartbreaking and more hopeful than Sisterhood, and I was full-on weeping by the end (bear in mind that it takes A LOT for me to shed tears over a book). I connected so deeply with aspects of all three girls, and I particularly loved the exploration of empathy and support networks and true friendship vs superficial relationships.TW: grief, alcoholism, dieting/dramatic weight loss, cheating (slightly)

Review: 3 Willows by Ann BrasharesHere is a summary of what the book is about. summer is a time to grow seedsPolly has an idea that she can't stop thinking about, one that involves changing a few things about herself. She's setting her sights on a more glamorous life, but it's going to take all of her focus. At least that way she won't have to watch her friends moving so far ahead.rootsJo is spending the summer at her family's beach house, working as a busgirl and bonding with the older, cooler

I loved this book. I wasn't sure when I started it and realized the girls were just finishing up middle school but I'm really glad I pushed through my initial doubts. This was my book club book for September and I'm really excited to talk about it with my girls.I found myself getting unexplainable chills while reading this book and the only way I can explain it is that I felt really connected to the story and the characters.

I don’t like how this book was formatted and was difficult to follow at times.The story was good but was honestly rushed.

I always thought the idea of magical jeans that mysteriously grew or shrunk was an unnecessary element in the awesome Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, maybe left over from the original sell of the series idea to an editor, kind of like Gene Rodenberry had to describe Star Trek as "Wagon Train in space" to get the network to sign off on it. In 3 Willows, Brashares proves that she doesn't need a gimmick. And in a very cool move, she actually addresses the question that lots of real-life gi...

3.5 stars. While I wouldn't call this part of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, this book is sort of a spin-off from the original series in that it revolves around three girls the summer before starting 9th grade who known of the Sisterhood girls and are in awe of their traveling pants. They don't get a pair of pants to share between them, however; the story just revolves around their friendship.The girls were fairly likable, even though I grew frustrated at times because they acted,...

Once again, Ann Brashares has written a breathtaking story that will blow readers away and have them begging for more of Ama, Jo, and Polly.The main focus of 3 Willows is how three best friends have grown apart after four years of friendship and have fallen into different groups that don't involve the other two. Leaving them to wonder that even though they have been through so much together, do they really need each other again? As you can see, this is a big departure from Brashares The Sisterho...

Not a fan. IF I would've been writing reviews this would've been an epic rant. I still might do it one of these days if I ever dig this one out of storage.

This was a sort-of companion to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, but you didn't have to read them to get what was going on in this.This was very different, though, because the girls' friendship is different. That is what I like about this book, that it proves that not all friendships are like that of Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, even if the girls are very similar. Jo is a bit like Bridget: she's daring and reckless, and a significant family member of her's is dead; she must rec...

Reviewed by Sarah Bean the Green Bean Teen Queen for TeensReadToo.comThe Sisterhood may be grown up, but their legend lives on. Meet Polly, Jo, and Ama, three girls who are now entering the very same high school the legendary Sisterhood attended. The three have been friends since third grade, but now with high school approaching, they find themselves being drawn in separate ways and spending the summer apart. Ama is all about academics, extra credit, and schoolwork. She's signed up to spend the

I liked this book but I kind of think it was a money grab tying it on to the Sisterhood series. This is about 3 girls who have always been beset friends but now they're spending the summer apart (sound familiar?). Polly is wanting to be a model and has an alcoholic mother. She's curvy and struggles with an eating disorder. Jo's parents are splitting up. She spends the summer with her mom at their beach house and gets in with a new group of kids and maybe finds her first boyfriend. Ama's family i...

Hmm, not much there. I remember enjoying the original Sisterhood books.

uggh, where to start...Ok, is it fair to judge adolescent fiction the same way I would judge adult fiction? I think so, because I honestly found the first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants enjoyable. As the original series progressed I found, as with most series, in an effort to maintain continuity (and sales, I'm sure), the books were published in such rapid succession that they were neither as well-edited or as original as the first(anybody who read the Twilight series should also know where I...