Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Series: Anne of Green Gables #3
Genre: Classic 
Released: 1915
300 pages

About the Book:

Eighteen-year-old Anne has left Green Gables for university in nearby Nova Scotia, where she will finally fulfill her dream of earning a degree. She sets up home in a cozy cottage in bustling Kingsport with Avonlea's Priscilla Grant and a new friend, the beautiful Philippa Gordon. But it's not all fun and games. Anne's childhood friend, Ruby Gillis, dies of tuberculosis back in Avonlea, shattering Anne's carefree attitude to life, and Gilbert finally declares his feelings and proposes. But Anne still has a naïve, overly romantic view of love and rejects him, driving a wedge between them. A two-year relationship with a fellow Redmond College student, Roy Gardner, follows, but when he also proposes, Anne realizes that he's not the one for her after all. When she returns to Avonlea and learns that Gilbert is deathly ill with typhoid, she is distraught. Will she recognize the depth of her feelings at last? Or is it already too late for Anne and her one true love?

  

My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐⭐

Anne is off to college in Nova Scotia. Book encompasses her four years at Redmond and her summers back on the island. I found the story to move slowly at times. I was frustrated with the way that Anne treated Gilbert. The number of times she was proposed to was crazy but each one was unique and some of the ways it happened were hilarious. Even though I am not a cat lover, I found one particular scene disturbing. Anne is experiencing the challenges of life changing as you grow up. The ending chapter was the best part of the story (not because it was the end, but because of what finally happens.)

(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 

in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

Other books from this author that I have reviewed:   

   

Anne of Green Gables - Anne of Green Gables # 1

Anne of Avonlea - Anne of Green Gables # 2

The Blue Castle