My rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Though I enjoyed reading this
book, the parts of the first two books in the Anne of Green Gables series that
I didn’t like only became more amplified in this novel.
Firstly, everyone seems to love
Anne. In the first couple of books I would go along with this to a certain
extent because a lot of the people introduced were children and Anne herself
was a child, so you have people who are likely to like someone on first
impression and someone who is easily likable. But in this book, the stream of
people who adored Anne for seemingly nothing was endless. If I am counting
right, she was proposed to six times by five different people and some of them
she barely knew. Did they propose just because she is that likable? I wouldn’t
mind as much if proper reason was given to them liking her, but I couldn’t find
much to suggest that she would be so universally adored.
Secondly, there was another large
introduction of secondary characters in this book. This was of course necessary
with Anne going to study at Redmond, but a lot were never expanded upon more
than appearance and Anne’s opinion on them. It got annoying because I wanted to
be able to form my own opinion on them based on their actions, but it seemed
that most of their actions only reflected the necessary points of Anne’s plot. It’s
a shame because I feel like this book would have been so much richer if it hadn’t
been that way.
Having said all that, I did still
enjoy this book and I did want to know what was going to happen in Anne’s life,
though I do think the main reason was to see whether Anne and Gilbert would end
up together, which I knew already, but still interested me.
No comments:
Post a Comment