A review by whimsicallymeghan
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

5.0

It’s been a few years and Anne is now sixteen-years-old and teaching at the school that she once attended. Aside from teaching the young, her and Marilla have adopted two young orphans, Davy and Dora, twins who definitely keep them on their toes, especially Anne. This was a lovely continuation in Anne’s story. The reader is sad that we’re no longer seeing the young girl we met in the first book and we long for more time with her. But seeing Anne a little older with new responsibilities was still a lot of joy. We still got to see the wild, bright-eyed young girl she used to be, mixed with a more mature version of herself. The dynamic of watching her mother Davy was so cute and wholesome to read because Davy was like a carbon copy of Anne at that age; the reader admits that Davy wasn’t always as pleasant to read as Anne was, but over the course of the novel, we were able to warm up to him. The difference was probably the fact that Davy never felt any sort of remorse when he did something wrong, whereas Anne felt so much remorse, but Davy is slowly becoming a fan favourite. His twin sister, Dora, on the other hand was such a boring character; she was barely mentioned and when she was, it was in the dullest and monotonous way. The reader wonders if she will play a bigger role in the following books, because if not, why bother making Davy a twin. The other secondary characters were all really well adapted into the story and moved plots along, and did they ever move. These books are so short, yet so much happens in the span of them. Even though so much happens, this doesn’t feel fast-paced and rushed, but it moved at a more leisurely pace where we got to enjoy everything that was happening. The way this one ended left the reader excited to continue on with Anne’s journey; the reader just hopes that not too much time has lapsed between the two books. Overall, this was a sweet, uplifting story that took Anne on new adventures.