Hello friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re doing well! Today I’m posting my review of book seven in Anne’s journey, Rainbow Valley by: L.M. Montegomery.

You can read my review of book one: Anne of Green Gables
You can read my review of book two: Anne of Avonlea
You can read my review of book three: Anne of the Island
You can read my review of book four: Anne of Windy Poplars
You can read my review of book five: Anne’s House of Dreams
You can read my review of book six: Anne of Ingleside

Rainbow Valley by: L.M. Montgomery: Anne’s children are growing up, and just like her, they’ve found a special place to play, Rainbow Valley. But when a new family, The Meredith clan, move in across the way, the children find themselves sharing the space and getting into all sorts of new adventures with them. This was the seventh instalment in the Anne of Green Gables series, but it really had nothing to do with Anne at all, or even her children for that matter. The reader was so confused as to what the point of the novel was. It was still well written and had touches of what we loved about the earlier books in this series, but aside from that, this novel felt very out of place in this series. We’re following along with children from a family the Blythe children are friends with and we’re basically accompanying them on their trials and tribulations. A lot of the plots felt reused, and so they were a bit boring to read, and the wonderment these children were supposed to have, we’ve seen before so it didn’t fill the reader with the same enjoyment as before. The adult characters in this also felt a little childish too. It made for a fast-paced read because the reader wanted to know how everything was going to end, but at the same time, it also felt frustrating to read because how are these grown adults acting in the ways that they are. It felt like the theme in this novel was trying to cure loneliness. We saw it across the children, when Mary left her housekeeper to join the Meredith’s, and in the adults, when Ellen wouldn’t let Rosemary get married for fear of Ellen being alone. The reader felt disappointed that it feels Anne’s story is finished and it was done before they really knew it was over. There is one last book in this series, the reader has no hope it will follow Anne, but judging from the title, it sounds like it might follow her youngest daughter, Rilla, which hopefully will be better than whatever this novel was supposed to be. Rilla wasn’t even really in this one, so it wasn’t like this could be said to be a bridge between Anne and Rilla, this was just a novel full of people in the town. In the end, the reader didn’t hate this, but they also didn’t really enjoy it either, this novel just kind of exists.