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A review by meduse_jalouse
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
3.0
Two point five stars. This book is nowhere near as soul-satisfying as I remember, and I'm deeply sad about it.
The Anne Shirley books (excepting the first, which is a masterpiece) read like the literary equivalent of paint-by-numbers. They are enjoyable in the moment but extremely predictable and they don't really make you feel anything and you don't remember much about them when you're done.
In this volume, Anne goes away to college. As usual, she meets several kindred spirits, gets extremely lucky and finds herself in the right place at the right time every other minute, and is almost unbearably good and upright so that everyone who meets her loves her. She also learns what love is and isn't about (which is to say the last remnants of the fanciful and imaginative Anne of Green Gables whom we all loved are snuffed out by a ruthless Lucy Maud Montgomery).
ORIGINAL REVIEW from May 2013: Admittedly the most predictable of all three so far, I think my feelings were still the most gratified in the reading of this volume.
Gilbert + Anne 5evere
The Anne Shirley books (excepting the first, which is a masterpiece) read like the literary equivalent of paint-by-numbers. They are enjoyable in the moment but extremely predictable and they don't really make you feel anything and you don't remember much about them when you're done.
In this volume, Anne goes away to college. As usual, she meets several kindred spirits, gets extremely lucky and finds herself in the right place at the right time every other minute, and is almost unbearably good and upright so that everyone who meets her loves her. She also learns what love is and isn't about (which is to say the last remnants of the fanciful and imaginative Anne of Green Gables whom we all loved are snuffed out by a ruthless Lucy Maud Montgomery).
ORIGINAL REVIEW from May 2013: Admittedly the most predictable of all three so far, I think my feelings were still the most gratified in the reading of this volume.
Gilbert + Anne 5evere