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ceilisbookshelf's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Sexism, Racism, and Lesbophobia
theespressoedition's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to love this, but I just couldn’t. The concept was great. The execution was not. It was very angry and frustrating and took WAY too long to develop. I shouldn’t have been wondering what would happen with 6 pages left. The dialogue and writing was bizarre. Too many questions and uses of “like.” Just definitely not my jam, sadly. It makes me so sad ugh
Graphic: Racism, Bullying, Classism, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, and Homophobia
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury
moshang's review against another edition
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Sexism and Racism
missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition
3.0
I liked, and didn’t like, a lot of things about this book.
My dislikes:
My dislikes:
- The excessive use of CAPITALIZATION!
- The excessive use of ending sentences with a question mark? Even when it often didn’t make sense?
- The, like, excessive use of “like”
- Assuming the audience doesn’t know any disco music and listing the artist, album title and year every song was released. It got repetitive and was never not annoying.
My likes:
- Anne’s character, personality and narration was mostly really bubbly and joyful.
- The end where
Berry’s last name is revealed to be Blythe was unexpected and really satisfying for me. - Mr. Davidson, Beverly, and Monty the dog.
This is not a retelling of “Anne of Green Gables,” so if you’re coming into this book with that expectation, you will be disappointed, as I was. Around the 50% mark I let go of that expectation and it made for a more enjoyable reading experience. It’s not a bad book, it’s just not what it says it is (an “Anne” retelling). I don’t know how one would successfully go about retelling that story.
I debating even finishing this book because it felt like 250 straight pages of a girl being violently bullied and then the adults around her failing her in the aftermath. I really disliked the resolution as it was crammed into the last 30 pages. It was hard to believe these bully kids could go from being seriously racist, sexist and homophobic to suddenly nice and kind just because
I was surprised this was YA; Anne often read as much younger, and this could have been a middle grade book if the excess swearing was omitted. (I’m not sure what the qualifications for a middle grade book are.) I kept forgetting she was an older teenager.
All in all, I still enjoyed this book. Anne’s character and worldview kept me reading until the end. Anne Shirley is one of my favorite characters of all time, so it makes sense why I’d enjoy it if this Anne was modeled after her.
Graphic: Bullying, Racism, and Homophobia
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Hate crime, and Sexism
erins_bookshelf_'s review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
4.5
I loved this so much; it was really cute and fun while also being emotional when needed and it was just great :)
The end actually kind of surprised me because up until Berry said what her dad’s last name was I thought Gilly was supposed to be a genderbent Gilbert, but I’m realizing she was actually supposed to be like a Diana figure and it makes much more sense that way
Anyway this was fun and it’s a nice final book for 2022 :)
Anyway this was fun and it’s a nice final book for 2022 :)
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Sexism, and Racism
Moderate: Homophobia and Bullying
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