My rating: ⭐⭐
This book was sweet, though I didn’t see much point in its existence.
With the other add in book, Anne of Windy Willows, it filled a clear gap in
Anne’s life that had been missed in the original books. However, with this
book, it filled a much more random amount of time, from long after Anne’s House
of Dreams had ended to a few months before Rainbow Valley starts. I was that
interested in that allotted time, or maybe I would have been more interested in
it if the book had been different.
By that I mean that similarly to Rainbow Valley, this book followed scores
of perspectives and I didn’t much care for most of them. I think had I not read
Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside this book would have been confusing
because of the sheer number of children who had a perspective in this story,
yet this book is supposed to be set before them…
Aside from that, it was a sweet enough book about the trials and
tribulations of childhood, though childhood from an advantaged perspective, and
touched on the issues a marriage can face as children and work take over, which
I thought was interesting. Overall though, there wasn’t enough to tie this book
together to justify its creation, though at least not everyone loved Anne!
(Though of course most people did.)
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