Truly charming and heartwarming, especially the scene where "Gilbert and Anne are embracing on the bridge" (for further enjoyment this can also be seen in the movie, especially if you are helping with the KVIE Channel 6 fundraiser). Rilla reminded me so much of Anne I now want to get the other post-series books. I picked this up again and I'm glad I did. Just when I was going to give up on the series because of all the kids, this one redeemed it. I don't know if I would have been able to hold back from telling her off and I'm pretty non-confrontational. Aunt Josephine seemed to be cold and easily angered at first but she thawed quickly. The resolution of the book, with Gilbert reassuring Anne, made laugh because whenever my own husband gets quiet or distant I assume he's plotting how to leave me.Īunt Mary Maria is intolerable. I just don't like grown-up Anne as much as growing-up Anne, I guess.Īunt Mary Maria and Christine Stuart are two "new" characters, though we did meet Christine in passing in Anne of the Island but she's more fleshed out here. When the last book closed she had one kid, now she has 5 and then 6 when Rilla is born. This one started to drag a bit because it's much more focused on the kids than Anne. It was especially heartwarming to see Marilla mothering Anne. Lynde come to visit the little house of dreams. I kind of wish "Jem" had been named Matthew James just because I'm partial to dear, sweet Matthew. The Dick/George Moore sideplot is interesting.Īnne's loss of her first baby is sobering but the joy of her second, successful pregnancy makes up for it. I love the new characters introduced: Miss Cordelia, Leslie Moore, Owen Ford, Captain Jim. I wish LM Montgomery hadn't omitted Anne's "love letter" pages!įinally, Anne is Gilbert's bride! A beautiful wedding and they're off to their beautiful house of dreams.
I love Anne and Gilbert and wished I could see more of the courtship but Gilbert hardly appears here and doesn't even speak. My least favorite, as most of it is in letter-form from Anne to Gilbert. The ending, with Gilbert and Anne in Hester Gray's garden is beautiful and so fitting an end to their old chum days while being a beginning to their courtship. It reminded me of how much growing up can hurt in all its exhileration. Diana's wedding was also heartbreaking in a different way. Gilbert's Christmas gift of a pink enamel heart was a sweet throwback to their childhood days. I loved the moment before her graduation from Redmond when she decides to carry Gilbert's lillies instead of Roy's violets. It was heartbreaking watching Anne with Roy. The arrival of Davy and Dora brings welcome levity after the sad ending of the previous book. It picks up nicely after the first one with Anne teaching school in Avonlea after Gilbert gives up his post for Anne so she may remain with Marilla and they might keep Green Gables.
I feel like I know every word in this one but it was no less magical in its rereading.
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