3.66 AVERAGE


That was quick! Love Laura finding yet another man who keeps digging his family into a huge hole for his obsessive farm dreams. And love him just not telling her about finances and her repeatedly going, "oh I shouldn't worry about this business as a women!"

The beginning was really weird, it seemed to directly contradict the end of the previous book. And for the end of the series, this was super bleak. Should have just stopped after the last one. Oh well.

Appreciated finding out the 8th book was actually an unpublished and unfinished manuscript. Did not have the same feel as the previous books
challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
emotional fast-paced

It felt really different then the rest of the series. Someone told me that Laura Wilder didn't get a chance to revise this one, to be more smooth or something. Which would explain why it feels different, but maybe that's just me. But I don't expecially like this one.

The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1971)
adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense
dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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2.5

Clearly written many, many years later.