3 Willows by Ann Brashares

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

Description:

summer is a time to grow

seeds

Polly 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.

roots

Jo is spending the summer at her family’s beach house, working as a busgirl and bonding with the older, cooler girls she’ll see at high school come September. She didn’t count on a brief fling with a cute boy changing her entire summer. Or feeling embarrassed by her middle school friends. And she didn’t count on her family at all. . .

leaves

Ama is not an outdoorsy girl. She wanted to be at an academic camp, doing research in an air-conditioned library, earning A’s. Instead her summer scholarship lands her on a wilderness trip full of flirting teenagers, blisters, impossible hiking trails, and a sad lack of hair products.

It is a new summer. And a new sisterhood. Come grow with them.

Somehow I missed the blurb that this was by the same author who wrote The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  Yes, I am probably one of the few remaining people who have not read that series so I cannot compare this book to those.  I have to admit that while 3 Willows isn’t bad it definitely is not one of my favorite books.  I didn’t really get what set Polly’s mother’s down her path and I felt like Polly’s eating issues were sort of glossed over in the end.  Jo’s problems with Zach were pretty predictable.  The one story that I sort of got into was Ama.  She was so whiny that her story was funny.  This book was an interesting read but not one that I would put high on my list.

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