Welcome back to the eleventh month of Calendar Girls! It’s a monthly blog event co-hosted by Flavia and Melaine and designed to ignite bookish discussions among readers. Calendar Girls was inspired by the 1961 Neil Sedaka song, Calendar Girl, For more information, about the Calendar Girls community click here!
This month’s theme is the best book that wraps up a series.Get ready to be shocked by my answer people who have been following this blog for a little bit, because the answer may surprise you.
Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty!
This series followed Jessica Darling from a High School Junior just getting her footing in the world through college and in the last installment, the book takes place when she’s 30 in a kind of “real time” journal style alternating between Jessica and Marcus.
This book recaps their lives over the last few year between the end of the fourth book and the start of the fifth. It goes into Jessica’s work and home life and we see the end of Jessica and Marcus’s story that we– the lovers of this book series– have watched as it went up and down had break-ups, get back togethers, fight, and everything in between.
This book has everything that we loved about the series– Barry Manilow, weird in-jokes, we find out the fate of Marcus’s 40-year-old car. It;s an incredibly satisfying conclusion to what may be my second favorite book series of all time (Harry Potter 4 Life).
If you get one thing out of my blog, I hope it’s the interest to read the Jessica Darling Series by Megan McCafferty. It sits somewhere between YA and “adult” it’s brilliant and funny. The characters jump off the page. It deals with so many different things from first loves to the loss of a baby, marriage, friends moving away, what friendship is. It’s just really good.
Do you have a favorite last book of a series?
Next months theme is– I think– the hardest one yet, your Favorite book of 2017. That’s going to be tough.
As always for all things Calendar Girls, I suggest you check out Flavia or Melaine’s post or check out the #CGBchat hashtag on twitter.
Until next time Internet,
Deanna
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You had me a Barry Manilow – I have just added all five to my TBR list!
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Barry Manilow has a huge part in the finale. It’s a really great series. I hope you enjoy it!
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As a lifetime Fanilow I’m sure I will!
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Another author to add to my TBR! Thank you 😉
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Hmmm. Interesting choice. I generally don’t read contemporary, but I kind of like the idea of following the journey of a post-college person (as I’m in that state.) It’s a hard point in life and I think it’s great to look at how fictional characters deal with it. It often makes us feel less alone in this crazy thing we call life. :p
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Interesting choice! I’ve not heard of this series, but the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants did something similar, where it went back to the characters as adults, and a lot of people didn’t really like it. I like books that grow with the reader.
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I’ve read the 5th Traveling Pants book, and I enjoyed it, but I don’t count it as canon to the Sisterhood saga. If that makes sense.
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Totally does. Because that’s exactly how I feel about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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Awee this sounds like a series that really had you feeling attached to the characters, and feeling like you kind of grew up with them (based on what I’m reading about it here anyway, haha). I may have to check out this series when I’m in the mood to cuddle up with a good contemporary series 🙂
Thanks so much for participating!
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I’ve never heard of this series but it does sound interesting!
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