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Book Review | Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
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Rating
5 stars – the feisty red-head returns
Description
Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is ‘half past sixteen’ and about to start teaching at her old school, set on inspiring youthful minds and hearts with ideals and ambitions. But some of her pupils only respond to very different methods. Meanwhile the young orphan Davy and the Avonlea Improvement Society bring their own headaches for a harum-scarum, outspoken girl trying to grow up.
The Book Review
Just as it was with Anne of Green Gables revisiting the sequel was like visiting an old friend and reminiscing about old times.
Readers of the first novel may recall that as it ended Anne had come to a ‘bend in the road’ and was not sure what life held in store for her. In this second novel Anne finds herself teaching at her old school – with hopes that she will inspire at least one of her pupils to go onto great things. Her old friends are back, from the darling Diana to the steadfast Gilbert Blythe – but we are introduced to so many new friendly faces and kindred spirits. Anne doesn’t get herself into quite as many scrapes as she did in her youth – but the arrival of little Davy more than makes up for that!
Once again Montgomery has delivered a delightful novel that has stood the test of time – charting two further years in Anne’s life – and bringing us to the perfect place – another bend in the road which we can choose to travel alongside Anne, in the third book: Anne of the Island.
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Glad you enjoyed it Nymeth – and I loved your review i- it put mine to shame!
Lisa – shame on you for calling Anne annoying *wink* She gets herself in to far fewer scrapes in the sequel so you may like it a bit more – though I think Green Gables beats this one hands down. The story about Miss Lavender is a sweet romantic one – just like a fairy tale.
I finished this one recently and like you I found it delightful
And I have to thank you – if it hadn’t been for your mini-challenge I wouldn’t have picked it up so soon.
I was not a big fan of Anne of Green Gables. I was sure I would never ever want to read the sequels. But all this recent talk about the anniversary of it and all makes me curious. I was ordering something else from Paperbackswap and somehow this one slipped onto the order as well. I’m hoping Anne is a bit less annoying.
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