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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4 STARS
"Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter, discovers the problems and difficulties of coming of age during the terrifying days of World War I." (From Amazon)
Rilla is a great character that is very unlike Anne but has her own appeal. I enjoyed the journey Rilla makes from a young selfish girl to a hardworking woman.
"Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter, discovers the problems and difficulties of coming of age during the terrifying days of World War I." (From Amazon)
Rilla is a great character that is very unlike Anne but has her own appeal. I enjoyed the journey Rilla makes from a young selfish girl to a hardworking woman.
This book takes the series in a more serious direction, which makes complete sense as it covers the events of the Blythe family members during World War I. The story is told through the eyes of youngest child Rilla; while she isn't as vibrant as her mother Anne, she is nearly as enjoyable to follow and makes a suitable replacement. I found it interesting to see how much the tumultuous worldwide circumstances affected Rilla's coming of age, from her taking in a war orphan to discovering true love. When tragedy strikes the Blythes, it feels like a knife to the gut since I've grown to love these characters. While it would have been interesting to get more books from Rilla's perspective, I like that the series ends with a peek inside her mind during her formative years.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
This novel was better than #s 4-7 in that there was more meat than "Oh lo, here are our very mild and quaint, non-problems, aren't they so adorable?" But still - here we have a strong-willed female character, and she resigns herself to ONLY being someone's wife. It's as if the moral Lucy Maud wanted to convey was "Don't worry, she'll grow out of it and submit to her place in society like a good girl." It's seriously disheartening. Rilla even says outright that she doesn't have any ambition to go to school but only to be Kenneth Ford's wife! UGH! Heaven help us, and all the women and girls who read these stories of Anne having ambition and becoming a school teacher and going off to college and getting scholarships only to do NOTHING with her BA degree... and even when propositioned later to help her friend write his memoirs, she DECLINES and then suggests a MAN to do it for him. She doesn't even help! There was so much space for Anne to do something worthwhile with her degree, but she marries a doctor and her role becomes wife and mother and nothing else. She's known as "Misses Doctor." She has no identity other than someone else's wife or someone else's mother. There was so much room for there to be more, and it was squandered. Seriously loved the first three books, and then 4-7 got progressively worse. Then 8 got a little better by covering the war - there were actual problems and not just quaint, accidental or intentional matchmaking. But the ending the protagonist's lack of desire to be anything other than a man's wife just let me down. Women are more! Girls are more! And we can't be seen as that if they are surrounded by media depicting women and girls as not accomplishing anything for themselves except a domicile.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Je suis vraiment très triste de quitter cet univers. J'ai vraiment beaucoup aimé ce tome suivre Rilla qui évolue tellement au fil des pages. Et puis vivre la guerre dans les yeux des habitant Ingleside, c'est vraiment un tome très touchant avec quelques passages comiques quand même.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Loved this more as an adult than as a child. Such a wonderful series. Still my all time favourite series.