** spoiler alert ** 
 I was disappointed when I heard there was a fourth Sisterhood book. I felt that the series was wrapped up with book number three but after reading book four I was pleased with how the characters had developed. Then I heard there was another Sisterhood book. Once again I was wary; what more could there be to their story? This time when I read the new chapters and finally closed the novel, I was glad to know the outcome but sad to see how it had progressed. The girls did not seem to have grown very much from the first two books. Lena was still obsessing over Kostos, she was just waiting and waiting, letting her life close into a small box, not allowing herself to feel at all. Bee was still running away when she met a problem too big to handle on her own. Carman seemed to be the only one who had found a way to cope--and appear "normal"--and yet she was still cheating herself of a full life. I was sad to not be able to spend any time with Tibby in this book, her death certainly left a hole. I guess I expected the girls to be able to hold on to each other through anything, they had always reached out before when one was hurting. I realize that all three left behind had grief to deal with at the same time but that had been part of the magic of the Sisterhood. It was not breakable, not weak. It was dependable no matter the tragedy and for me that magic disappeared in this book. 
 I will say that the book pulled me along. The characters still mattered to me; I very much wanted to see where Bee, Lena, and Carman would end up. They just didn't go in the directions I had hoped :(