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paperbacksandpines's review against another edition
4.0
This book was even better than [b:Emily of New Moon|3562|Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)|L.M. Montgomery|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1563899327l/3562._SY75_.jpg|1223124]. Although the book had the same somber overtones of the first book, due to her unfortunate circumstances of orphanhood and some family members' attempts to thwart her at every turn, Emily refuses to be cowed. Unlike [b:Anne of Green Gables|8127|Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)|L.M. Montgomery|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390789015l/8127._SY75_.jpg|3464264], Emily is less dreamy and more tethered to earth. Her strength of character and persistence are her defining features. The plot moved along quickly, much quicker than the [b:Anne of Green Gables|8127|Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)|L.M. Montgomery|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390789015l/8127._SY75_.jpg|3464264] series. I think that this series might be how Montgomery wished her life had gone. Instead of feeling pity for her, I'm going to celebrate her best attributes by enjoying her work.
enolas's review against another edition
4.0
Further Emily Starr fun...loved the character development, again so many Anne-ish echoes, possibly even more than the first book, but a fun and more light-hearted book all round.
sanjastajdohar's review against another edition
5.0
I grew very fond of Emily and her friends an family...she is just wonderful, silly sometimes, but way beyond wise for her years...what saddens me is that there are only three books to enjoy of her story.
situationnormal's review against another edition
4.0
I love Emily and her cast of friends and family and I love the little towns she lives in and the people she meets along the way. That said, this one seems a little spread out. Maybe it's just because I read them so closely together, but I had trouble keeping the events of this book separate from the events of the previous.
At least a little of that is because they're so similar--in both books, Emily finds a missing person using a psychic ability. In both books, Emily fights against a stubborn aunt who thinks she's behaving inappropriately and doesn't respect her need to write. In both books, she loves Teddy but keeps receiving marriage proposals from Perry. In both books, Dean is creepy and hits on her.
All of that aside, I enjoyed both books a lot, and I love Emily--if not as much as Anne, it's very close.
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At least a little of that is because they're so similar--in both books, Emily finds a missing person using a psychic ability. In both books, Emily fights against a stubborn aunt who thinks she's behaving inappropriately and doesn't respect her need to write. In both books, she loves Teddy but keeps receiving marriage proposals from Perry. In both books, Dean is creepy and hits on her.
All of that aside, I enjoyed both books a lot, and I love Emily--if not as much as Anne, it's very close.
amibunk's review against another edition
4.0
While not as perfectly lovely as Emily of New Moon, this second installment of the Emily trilogy is charming.
I love L.M. Montgomery with a fierce literary passion. There is something endearing and delightful about her full length novels, despite (or perhaps because of?) the recurring themes and plot lines. Her short stories, on the other hand, aren't quite as lovable; but I'll take Montgomery's less triumphant writing as long as it means I can have her novels.
I love L.M. Montgomery with a fierce literary passion. There is something endearing and delightful about her full length novels, despite (or perhaps because of?) the recurring themes and plot lines. Her short stories, on the other hand, aren't quite as lovable; but I'll take Montgomery's less triumphant writing as long as it means I can have her novels.
pixie_d's review against another edition
3.0
More weird stuff, including children wandering all over the countryside unsupervised; overweaning snobbishness (and implied classism/racism); a girl with an undiscussed/undiagnosed mental disorder who rages to the point of throwing and breaking cases in the principle's office -- she also smugly slaps a girl whose crime was being "ugly when she cries" -- and yet this friend of Emily's gets fully praised and never condemned for any of her violent episodes (remember that this was roughly the Leopold and Loeb era where some people thought they were above the law, because they thought they were so much better than other people -- so much unearned privilege and immense self-regard); an almost-40-yr-old asking a 14-yr-old if she is ready for romance lessons, and the girl saying she thought he was going to kiss her as if that is acceptable (oh, and he gives her a necklace that was stolen from the tomb of an Egyptian princess, as if that's just wonderful. If the British Museum is being held to task for all its cultural thefts, you can't ignore that here, either. Again, not a book to hand over to your kid without ensuing discussions); that 14-yr-old holding down jobs as if they are the kind of thing anyone would employ a child for; etc. etc. etc. It does a nice job as a career-oriented bildungsroman for an aspiring writer, however, even though you get the sense you would not like these people in person. There seems to be a huge ego at work.
The main character also has psychic episodes that rescue people, one big incident per book. When I read someone describing Emily as "the goth version of Anne of Green Gables," at first I could not see it, other than her paleness and black hair, but now I wonder if they also meant the "second sight" episodes.
The main character also has psychic episodes that rescue people, one big incident per book. When I read someone describing Emily as "the goth version of Anne of Green Gables," at first I could not see it, other than her paleness and black hair, but now I wonder if they also meant the "second sight" episodes.
lilyevangeline's review against another edition
3.0
There's something magical about the way that Emily loves New Moon, and her people, and just life, I guess. It seems to bleed over into the real world for me when I set the book down. Even though I don't feel that I really love this series, those little moments of magic aren't something found in every book. It turns my head, so to speak, and thins, for a moment, that veil separating realities.
And speaking as someone who also journaled from before I could spell or punctuate, watching the writing quality change in Emily's journal entries is so absolutely on point.
It hardly needs to be said again, but really was the whole Dean Priest plotline ever appropriate? Almost ruins the series for me, to be honest. And just in general, why is every male in Emily's life so objectifying and uncomfy? Was Anne of Green Gables like this and I just missed it?
And speaking as someone who also journaled from before I could spell or punctuate, watching the writing quality change in Emily's journal entries is so absolutely on point.
It hardly needs to be said again, but really was the whole Dean Priest plotline ever appropriate? Almost ruins the series for me, to be honest. And just in general, why is every male in Emily's life so objectifying and uncomfy? Was Anne of Green Gables like this and I just missed it?