I keep reading about this classic in other books and had to find a classic to read for a school assignment, so Anne of Green Gables was what I chose. The cover is from Amazon, the synopsis is from Goodreads.
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
Synopsis: Everyone's favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try to win them and, consequently, the reader, over.
My Review: Anne truly is spunky in a way, and she talks an awful lot in the book, which is fine, because the author does it naturally as if a girl really was rambling on and on. It doesn't feel as if the author is forcing Anne to talk, she just flows from one topic to another without letting anyone else talk as well. This also adds some really funny moments in, when Marilla, her new "mother" tries to talk to her. She also has her fair share of disasters, which each bring out sympathy from the reader, and also a few laughs. Marilla is a great mother to Anne, really supportive of her, though she can't always show it. What I didn't like was that Anne never considered Marilla as someone she really would like to be like when she grew up, even though it was Marilla taking care of her, not her teacher at school or her friend's aunt. Also, the beginning was really long and boring, and I barely could sit through it. If it wasn't a school assignment, I probably would have quit reading it, to be frank. However, the end is really good, and Anne really matures by the time her first year of college is finished.
Since the beginning really bored me but the end and overall character development was good, I've give this classic 2.5 stars. It definitely was not what I was looking for after hearing so much praise about it.
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