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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
Something in this book is especially beautiful and emotional for me - feels like the first one where Anne is “grown up”, and Montgomery writes this with gentleness and grief and humor - and, above all, an incredible knowledge of people.
Read these 40 years ago, if not longer as a preteen. Enjoyed the audio version during my walks. Not overly fond of the reader, she could’ve been better; sometimes her accent or her attempts using different voices was a tad annoying, and it seemed like there was peripheral noise in the background. Oh Anne! Because of these books, I always have wanted to visit Prince Edward Island.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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
How good it is to be back in Avonlea.
funny
lighthearted
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
Listening to the whole series on Audible. Excellent.
One of my favourites, read many times when I was a bookish pre-teen/teen. It was time for a re-read.
I felt Anne's cool assessment of Ruby Gillis's spiritual failings to be unforgivable, and the male characters are underdeveloped, but otherwise, this was as charming as the others I've read in the series.
Anne attends college and learns to fall in love. For all that this focuses on romance, it's less dated or frustrating than the previous installation--perhaps because the many featured romances are so varied and compassionate. Anne's romantic entanglements are almost overdrawn, but they function as a platform for her character growth, for the quiet conflict between storybook ideals and happy realities, and by pulling double duty they don't overstay their welcome. Her college life goes relatively unexplored, and I wish it were otherwise--Anne's scholastic achievements would help ground the narrative. Daily life with her classmates rises to fill that gap, and performs well; Patty's Place is exactly what one would hope for from this series, charming and gently idealized. I liked this, didn't love it--probably none of the sequels will live up to Anne of Green Gables, but that's an unfair standard to hold them to.