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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
okay, I must say the beginning of this book killed me, in the good way, of course.
It's just so sweet and beautiful!!!
This book shows you life, in a realistic way; with all its ups and downs, with the good moments and its hardships. It's really a thing of beauty.
Again, as all the AoGG books, it must be mandatory reading for all human beings.
It's just so sweet and beautiful!!!
This book shows you life, in a realistic way; with all its ups and downs, with the good moments and its hardships. It's really a thing of beauty.
Again, as all the AoGG books, it must be mandatory reading for all human beings.
It's always tricky to review books that are also trips down memory lane. My inner 9-year-old refuses to give this less than four stars because she still wishes that she could be Anne, or at least her friend. My adult brain felt at points that Anne and other characters were annoying caricatures. (I'm looking at you, Miss Cornelia...) That probably explains why some of my favorite bits are when Montgomery gives a sort of subtle wink to the reader about the imperfections of our heroes and heroines. For example, Captain Jim is beloved by all, but the narrator observes "[he] knew that Anne wrote, but he had never taken that fact very seriously. Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write."
I also had mixed reactions to her detailed descriptions. I loved this:
On the other hand, I thought this was an unwieldy mess:
Go big or go home, I guess.
My final note is that everything is resolved darn quick in the final chapters of the book. Given the genre, I'll cut Montgomery some slack for having a rather fairy tale ending, but I wish it had unspooled more slowly. I guess she was really excited to get on to Book 6. :)
I also had mixed reactions to her detailed descriptions. I loved this:
The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold, dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love. The sky was sharp and blue; the snow diamonds sparkled insistently; the stark trees were bare and shameless, with a kind of brazen beauty; the hills shot assaulting lances of crystal. Even the shadows were sharp and stiff and clear-cut, as no proper shadows should be.
On the other hand, I thought this was an unwieldy mess:
The garden of the little house was a haunt beloved of bees and reddened by late roses that August. The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.
Go big or go home, I guess.
My final note is that everything is resolved darn quick in the final chapters of the book. Given the genre, I'll cut Montgomery some slack for having a rather fairy tale ending, but I wish it had unspooled more slowly. I guess she was really excited to get on to Book 6. :)
SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED AT THIS BOOK.
I can't bother to write a review at this point. It's got the same problems as the last two books. Too boring. I couldn't even finish the last chapter... and I paid for this book...
I can't bother to write a review at this point. It's got the same problems as the last two books. Too boring. I couldn't even finish the last chapter... and I paid for this book...
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
Yes
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I think all the domestic madness Gilbert and Anne shippers were craving was satisfied with this book. Anne has had a major character development from the first book where she thought that everything she did was for the worst, and now every adventure she seems to have turns out for the better. This book no only further develops on Anne's life as a newly wed but also spits out life lessons and wisdom unknowingly.
emotional
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-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