The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by ANN BRASHARES

This was truly an impulsive buy. Glanced through the blurb and found it vaguely interesting. Then literally grabbed it off the shelves while balancing some hardcover books I mulled long over and my handphone and distractedly carrying on some conversation.

Regretted the buy when I got home and decided to start reading it. And found that it was the second instalment to the Travelling Pants saga.

The WHAT...??!

Exactly my thoughts.

But felt it would be such a waste to just chuck it aside. Plus, figured it must have had some redeeming quality to be #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, and appeared on Good Morning America's Book Club.

So as I usually did with books I don't feel very compelled to truly read through. Flipped back to the last couple of chapters to find out the ending. And was intrigued enough to want to start reading from the beginning again to find out how things progressed to THAT stage.

Wasn't as daft as I initially thought. Although the 4 protagonists are teens, the issues faced are timeless enough to strike a chord. The mother-daughter issues, for instance. But basically the scenarios are pretty real, pretty adult.

Not a bad buy after all. In fact, I might just hunt for the first instalment to fnd out what I had missed.