sofiasierra 's review for:

Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

5.0

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It took me a while to get into the book -as a lover of Anne and Gilbert, I was quite disappointed to find out that Gilbert would not be making an appearance in the whole book (he does appear for two pages and has no lines of dialogue); however, when I finished the book, the first thing that came to my mind was how necessary this book was in order to truly understand how others see Anne. We have seen Anne adapting to Avonlea, Queens, and Redmond, but she was always a child deep down in all of those places and, although everybody loved her, it was not because she made herself respected. When she arrives at Windy Poplars, she is finally a woman, and we see her slowly earning everybody's respect as she finds herself in a place where she knows absolutely nobody. When she leaves Windy Poplars, she is loved by the whole community and, as Rebecca Dew says, ''you will be lamented by all [...] who had the privilege of knowing you''.
Anne Shirley (last time I will be writing this surname in a review) has a heart of gold, and it was clearly seen in this book.