[Read Your Bookshelf] Book Review: Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery
Read Your Bookshelf is my 2025 goal of reading the remaining unread books on my physical TBR. View the full list here.
Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery
Two Stars*
Book 11 of 2025**
Genre: Classic, Historical Fiction
Format: Audiobook
Blurb
The fourth book in the series in the well-loved Anne Shirley series. Anne is now a young woman, who is beginning a romance with Gilbert Blythe. When she becomes the head of Summerside High School, however, she must face new challenges from the Pringle family, who are well-connected within the school and don't want her there. Can Anne show her characteristic bravery to overcome these obstacles and prove herself?
Review
This review is tricky to write because I did not like this book. I didn’t like how it took so much away from Anne and Gilbert’s story. The entire time I was thinking that it would;ve been better as a bonus novella, not a book in the main story line. It’s essentially just three years of nothing that adds to the main plot.
And then, after finishing it and reviewing it, I learned that it was the last book that Montgomery wrote in this series, essentially making it a bonus book. I think that if I were to have that in mind, I would’ve enjoyed it more. Whenever I reread this series, I will read it in publication order, not chronological order.
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*Two stars was my initial thoughts on this book.
**This is the correct number for books read in 2025. The previous book was a beta read for Victoria Dixon and I do not review beta reads because they’re not the final version of a book, but trust me . . . it’s good.