This is book 10 in the October Daye series, and as Malin said in her review don’t start here. However, do start the series so you can get here. I think this might be my favorite of the October Daye books, it’s pretty high up in my estimation if it’s not the most favorite. I’m wavering between 4.5 and 5 stars on this one, and I can’t quite make up my mind. It is hard to discuss this book, and it’s plot, without revealing major […]
Woodrow Wilson Writes Good Notes, And That You May Tie To
So we finally come to The Great War. This has been slowly building for four or five books now, each book has had some hint about this major event and how it will effect the characters. If I’m to be honest, I don’t think I’ve read this book more then once or maybe twice. The first time I read it, I was very young and the character death really bothered me, so I didn’t re-read it very often if at all. Is that a spoiler? […]
Barely connected to Anne at all
Rainbow Valley is the seventh Anne book and WWI marches ever closer, the mentions of the war are a lot stronger here then in previous books and Montgomery’s foreshadowing was, occasionally, heavy handed. I’d forgotten how very little of the Blythe family is in this book, let alone Anne, instead it’s mostly about the Merediths and their adventures and scrapes. However, despite those two complaints, I really do enjoy this one. In many ways, this book is a return to what Montgomery does best, simple […]
Anne and her Children have Scrapes and Adventures
I haven’t been reading much of late, and so it’s taken me a while to get through this novel. Unfortunately the episodic nature of the Anne books, particularly this one, means that while it reads well in this periodic manner I’m kind of iffy on things that happened in the earlier sections of the book as it’s starting to meld with other Anne books. This was the last book Montgomery had published in her lifetime, though apparently there was a collection of short stories recently […]