cute_monkey_girl 's review for:

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

4.0

---

This book is bittersweet. It's sweet for many of the same reasons that the previous books are sweet and heart-warming, but it's also bitter because more than any of the other books, [b:These Happy Golden Years|77770|These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)|Laura Ingalls Wilder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389579632s/77770.jpg|4132] shows Laura's transition from childhood to adulthood and married life. It's also technically the last book in the series (if you don't count [b:The First Four Years|8296|The First Four Years (Little House, #9)|Laura Ingalls Wilder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266449687s/8296.jpg|11181] - which I can understand, because I vaguely remember that that book was very depressing and like a slap in the face compared to [b:These Happy Golden Years|77770|These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)|Laura Ingalls Wilder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389579632s/77770.jpg|4132] and every book before it).