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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
A trite and predictable story, but every page is full of that particular wonder and awareness of seasons, flowers, people, animals, weather that make L.M. Montgomery books a happy place to escape in the midst of a difficult day. I have renewed my vow to one day live by the sea.
This is one of my favourite books that I reread for comfort every few years. Waiting for my kids to be old enough to force them to love it too!
Actual rating 4.5/5
I wasn't really acquainted with Montgomery until last year. I think I remember reading some of the first Anne book years ago, but I'm not sure if I read all of it. Last year, I did read, and love, The Blue Castle. It was sweet and funny, and well written - Jane of Lantern Hill is all of those things too.
Montgomery is surprisingly modern in what she writes. I was struck by the way she wrote the adult relationships here, and I was interested in how blind the adults were compared with Jane's clarity. Montgomery would do very well with young adult audiences if she were writing today, I think.
She's also witty. Her characters are clever and funny. She writes interesting men, and I like her spunky heroines in search of their place in the world. You root for them.
One of Montgomery's strengths, I think, is her descriptiveness. Nature and place come alive off the page. She's very good at taking you somewhere. Her beloved Prince Edward Island is a charming, fun place to visit, and I'm looking forward to going back there.
I would have liked a bit more to the ending, and a bit more exploration of the adults' feelings, but, in general, this book just makes me want to read more by Montgomery. I do have the Anne books waiting on my Kindle...
I wasn't really acquainted with Montgomery until last year. I think I remember reading some of the first Anne book years ago, but I'm not sure if I read all of it. Last year, I did read, and love, The Blue Castle. It was sweet and funny, and well written - Jane of Lantern Hill is all of those things too.
Montgomery is surprisingly modern in what she writes. I was struck by the way she wrote the adult relationships here, and I was interested in how blind the adults were compared with Jane's clarity. Montgomery would do very well with young adult audiences if she were writing today, I think.
She's also witty. Her characters are clever and funny. She writes interesting men, and I like her spunky heroines in search of their place in the world. You root for them.
One of Montgomery's strengths, I think, is her descriptiveness. Nature and place come alive off the page. She's very good at taking you somewhere. Her beloved Prince Edward Island is a charming, fun place to visit, and I'm looking forward to going back there.
I would have liked a bit more to the ending, and a bit more exploration of the adults' feelings, but, in general, this book just makes me want to read more by Montgomery. I do have the Anne books waiting on my Kindle...
L.M. Montgomery's writing is just enjoyable. She transports you to the shores of Prince Edward Island with ease and makes you want to stay forever. I saw the movie Jane of Lantern Hill, which of course was different from the book, and that's why I was eager to read the book. It was a wonderful read, right up there with Anne of Green Gables. I'm looking forward to reading more of her books.
While I read all the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon books as a kid, I'd never read Jane of Lantern Hill. I finally picked it up as part of my Among Others booklist read.
I might have liked it more if I'd read it before Anne, or maybe when I was younger. I really liked Jane and her parents, and Jane learning everything about everything and finally coming into her own. What really stood out to me, though, was the absolutely toxic characters: Jane's selfish, cruel, controlling grandmother and her poisonous Aunt Irene. They made me so angry! And it made me so angry seeing anyone fall for their tactics or think they were decent people. Ugggghhhh.
I also think it was a little too long. The whole bit with the lion could have gone, and Jane's interactions with Aunt Elmira and Mrs. Louisa Lyons felt like a rehash of Pollyanna saving her town's recluses with sunshine and prisms.
The end was pleasant, but I doubt I'll pick this one up again.
I might have liked it more if I'd read it before Anne, or maybe when I was younger. I really liked Jane and her parents, and Jane learning everything about everything and finally coming into her own. What really stood out to me, though, was the absolutely toxic characters: Jane's selfish, cruel, controlling grandmother and her poisonous Aunt Irene. They made me so angry! And it made me so angry seeing anyone fall for their tactics or think they were decent people. Ugggghhhh.
I also think it was a little too long. The whole bit with the lion could have gone, and Jane's interactions with Aunt Elmira and Mrs. Louisa Lyons felt like a rehash of Pollyanna saving her town's recluses with sunshine and prisms.
The end was pleasant, but I doubt I'll pick this one up again.
medium-paced
Jane of Lantern Hill is such an underrated book. She faces hardships that Anne of Green Gables only pretends to and it makes the happy and loving parts of the book so much more satisfying. I love it.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes