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Originally Posted by Victoria
issybird I’m sorry to read you lost an old favourite! It makes we wish we hadn’t chosen the book.
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Never be sorry a book’s been chosen!
I’m a big girl and if I can’t enjoy a book in one way, I can find another.
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I feel the same way about how Montgomery developed Anne’s story in later books. I read the first three books at aged 10 & 11, and loved them. I later read the rest of the series as a teenager, and was very disappointed. She just didn’t seem like Anne at all.
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I know! All that drive and ambition and talent evanesced. As has been said above, the Emily books are superior. In addition to featuring a grittier heroine, they didn’t go beyond their sell-by date. Three told the story.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
ETA I crossed with your post issybird, so thanks for those reminders. I hadn’t picked up that they referred to Acadians I suppose.
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Why should you have? They were written and treated as underlings, so it’s as well they were marginal to the book and easy to overlook.