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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
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:
No
Ugh.
I cannot believe that my girl Lucy Maude wrote this garbage! The entire book was just an overly wrought homage to physical beauty. Every single page had some mention of it. And the part when Eric laughingly declares he could never love an ugly woman? Barf-o-rama.
So here's how I'm reconciling this: malicious imposters must have wrote this trash and signed it with L.M. Montgomery's name as a cruel joke. I just refuse to accept that this came from my girlhood literary hero.
I cannot believe that my girl Lucy Maude wrote this garbage! The entire book was just an overly wrought homage to physical beauty. Every single page had some mention of it. And the part when Eric laughingly declares he could never love an ugly woman? Barf-o-rama.
So here's how I'm reconciling this: malicious imposters must have wrote this trash and signed it with L.M. Montgomery's name as a cruel joke. I just refuse to accept that this came from my girlhood literary hero.
I was rather disappointed and bored with this book. Anne of Green Gables was my favorite books last year, so I had high hopes for this one. It didn’t deliver.
This was different from other LMM books. The tragedy was a messy family life. In typical LMM style, The girl is the hero of her own story and things fall into place as she loves those people around her.
I loved this book when I read it in high school, but it's a bit harder to swallow this time around. It was something about everyone being worried whether or not she was "the right sort of woman" for their precious buddy, and it all being okay once they realized she was pretty. Because that's really all that matters when it comes to wifely virtue. Rubbed me the wrong way.
It's a pretty story, though.
It's a pretty story, though.
Has L. M. Montgomery’s beautiful descriptions of nature but lacks her impressive ability to write well-rounded, realistic, likeable characters as displayed in many of her other books.
The subject matter is also a touch creepy/gross and the main character never earns what he ends up with nor develops AT ALL.
The subject matter is also a touch creepy/gross and the main character never earns what he ends up with nor develops AT ALL.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Although it was kind of dry, it was a nice read. It would be better if it weren’t for the anti-Italian rhetoric, plus the ending felt quite rushed; it could’ve used another 30-50 pages.
It’s kind of hard to rate this book. At age 10-12 I loved it and would have rated it 5 stars. Now? Er, hm, let’s just say I find the constant references to the heroine as childlike to be extremely squicky. It’s also super racist against Italians!
This one didn’t live up to the memory I had of reading it as a tween. It was an early book of L.M.M.’s; boy takes over teaching position for sick friend, boy hears beautiful violin playing from an orchard, boy falls rump over teakettle in love with violinist, and is dismayed to find she is a fiercely protected mute girl who has hardly been out of her house since she was small. From then on it is a pitched battle as the hero seeks a way to make Kilmeny whole, and to make her his. In this one the … I don’t want to say racism; perhaps ethnocentricity is a kinder word, or xenophobia… comes out more strongly than in most. It’s a slender book, sweet (as always), and wrapped up a little too neatly (as always) – and without the depth of charm that carries off any faults in the other books.