I finished Pat of Silver Bush the other night! Boy was it heart-wrenching in parts, but mostly just so uplifting and wonderful. Like I’ve said in the first part of this review, Pat’s pure-hearted passion for nature and life just shines through so beautifully. I think she may be one of my top L.M. Montgomery book heroines of all time, but we’ll see how she does in Mistress Pat (the second book in the series.) Uninteresting, but I seriously hemmed and hawed over starting the second book right now, since it’s my last L.M. Montgomery novel ever (that I know of.) I was considering interrupting the series with her Christmas…

Typically, I wouldn’t write a review of a book before actually finishing it but a) I have no idea how much I have left in this one as my Kindle edition contains both books in the series and I’m loathe to accidentally jump ahead and spoil anything for myself, and b) I got up to a particular bit of this book last night and it hurt my very soul. Pregnancy hormones didn’t help there either. Let me start this by saying I’ve had a really rough twin pregnancy week. I’ve been in and out of hospital with various aches and pains. All normal, I’m told, just twin pregnancy, I’m told,…

I think as with any major franchise, people fall into two categories: those who read Herbert’s books then watched the films, and those who watched the movies and wanted to try the books. I’m in the latter camp. I’m going to start this by saying it took me ages to get into the films – it was only some time mid-second movie that I really felt I’d caught on and enjoyed them. So much so that I immediately bought the first book for myself and my dad. You see, we’ve been long-time scifi fans (yes, you can like Victorian literature and science fiction.) My dad has hundreds if not thousands…

In the interest of transparency, I’m currently on – possibly – my last ever L.M. Montgomery books, namely the Pat of Silver Bush series. All I have left after this is, to the best of my knowledge, the Christmas short story collection, and there’s a good chance it contains stuff I’ve already read. I first started reading L.M. Montgomery’s books when one of my best friends recommended Anne of Green Gables back in 2020/2021. I quickly went through everything she’s ever written. I’ve adored her lifelike characters, the optimism in her stories, and the many descriptions of gardens and landscapes. So when I found the short story collections on Amazon,…