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A review by sarahrosebooks
In the High Valley (Dodo Press) by Susan Coolidge
2.0
This edition was horribly presented. Some of the sentences would randomly cut off and start again on the next line, the spacing was all over the place, and there were a fair few spelling errors, as well.
The story is really just an add-on to give each Carr sibling a spouse (here, Clover and Elsie are already married, and Johnnie and Dorry find their spouses). We are given a Clarence-like character who magically changes her manners and ways after an illness (which seems to be the trope that the author likes to use to mould her characters into agreeable people).
Again, the story highlights how great it is to be a proper little homemaker and not at all like Mrs Watson.
I wish these books didn't exist, and then I could have finished with the third and just imagined them all living happily ever after. I know the first three have the same tropes and messages - Katy herself is the prime example of this, but I read them as an inexperienced child, not knowing then what I know now. I still have a fondness for these characters, but I didn't enjoy this book at all.
The story is really just an add-on to give each Carr sibling a spouse (here, Clover and Elsie are already married, and Johnnie and Dorry find their spouses). We are given a Clarence-like character who magically changes her manners and ways after an illness (which seems to be the trope that the author likes to use to mould her characters into agreeable people).
Again, the story highlights how great it is to be a proper little homemaker and not at all like Mrs Watson.
I wish these books didn't exist, and then I could have finished with the third and just imagined them all living happily ever after. I know the first three have the same tropes and messages - Katy herself is the prime example of this, but I read them as an inexperienced child, not knowing then what I know now. I still have a fondness for these characters, but I didn't enjoy this book at all.