emma's Reviews > Anne's House of Dreams

The thing about the Anne of Green Gables series is that for the first three books, the best thing about them is Anne.

And then for the rest of the books, it is not. It is either a very small aspect of the book, or it is an absence, because the book is entirely without a best thing.

This is probably the last installment that has a best thing at all, and that best thing is the House of Dreams.

This book includes the beginning and the end of that as a setting, so even the singular pro has its cons.

In other this-book-related news (if you can call aspects of a hundred-plus year old book "news" at all), this includes so many uses of the phrases "kindred spirit" and "the race of Joseph" that if those terms were banned (as I now think they should be) this would probably lose 25% of its page count.

And the trend with the later installments of this series by which I both miss the characters from the first books and don't care about the new ones continues gloriously.

Bottom line: I am grumpy.

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pre-review

i ascribe to the Peter Pan belief system (no one should ever grow up, let alone own a home or get married or have babies), so this is antithetical to my morals.

review to come / 2.5

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currently-reading updates

anne shirley, a whimsical orphan girl: :)

anne blythe, a married woman with a house: :/

let's see how this goes.

clear ur sh*t book 32
quest 15: read a book with a female or non-binary MC