This is the book that finally severed my relationship with Kevin Sullivan. When Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story premiered in the early 2000s, I was shocked to discover that Anne and Gilbert were suddenly time warped to WWI. That's wrong. On so many levels.WWI wasn't Anne's war, it was Rilla's, and Ken's, and Walter's, and that damn dog who turns me into a gushy mess every freaking time I read the last chapter. Rilla -- the youngest child of Anne and Gilbert -- is fifteen (see what I m...

This is probably my favorite of the Anne books. I love watching Rilla mature into a young woman, and I think the romance betwen Rilla and Ken Ford is one of the best in kidlit.

Now, I loved Anne. Don't get me wrong, but this book was on another whole level. I ADORED It. The heartbreak of ww1, the grown up Blythe family. . . I just loved everything about it.

Now I do know and realise that I am probably going to be seriously offending and angering some if not even rather many readers (and likely also more than a number of Goodreads friends) when I state that I absolutely and utterly despise L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside (and quite with every fibre of my being). For while, yes indeed, I do well know that the novel was written not only about WWI but also basically immediately post WWI and that it is and should therefore be considered an object (...

It was with great relief and disappointment that I finally closed the last volume of the Anne series. I'm afraid I found this volume a colossal bore. Rilla, cute as she is, was not featured as prominently as the title would suggest; nor was her love story. Set during WWI, Rilla of Ingleside chronicles the entire duration of the war and how it effected those in Canada. By the time they made it to 1918 I was praying for the war to end so the dang book would end. The scenes hardly varied. It was a

This is a stand-out in the series for me, I love Rilla. If Dog Monday doesn't make you cry, I don't know what will. He breaks my heart every time.

This is the final book of the Anne series, and deals with the lives of her children. While it's wonderful to see characters evolve into adulthood and have a next generation come to life, the real strength of this book is it's window into the homeland society of rural Maritime Canada during the first World War. It's one of few documentations (even if the characters are fictional) of what women were doing at home during the war, and this setting breathes new life into the end of the series. The se...

I started reading the Anne of Green Gables series for the first time in late 2016. Slowly, but surely, I made my way through. I liked some of the books and loved others, but none of them ever quite match the first book, which remained my favorite of them all. Then, along came Rilla. I knew from certain Goodreads friends that it was different from the rest of the books because it's focus is on Anne's daughter rather than Anne herself. What I didn't realize was how very emotional it would be (in a...

I have now read all eight books in the Anne of Green Gables series. Eight books that were an absolute pleasure to read. I like this one almost as much as the 1st one. It's the story of Anne's daughter Rilla, but it is set with the backdrop of World War I which has a huge influence on Anne's family. This story has a more serious tone than the other books but it is a fitting conclusion to a wonderful story.

"Before this war is over," he said - or something said through his lips - "every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over -years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break." At first, everyone is more concerned with loca...

2017 update: The more I've read this, the more I appreciate the metaphors, every day life of each characters, descriptions, laughter, and tears throughout. This book will never grow old for me. It's a dear friend :)***This is the most amazing, sweetest, heart-wrenching books I've read in my life. I've read it at least ten times (maybe more ;)) and I love it every. single. time.This is a book that can be enjoyable read on its on, but it is ever so much better if you've read the whole series. So r...

Heartbreaking and beautiful. One of the few fiction books out there in World War I, and so worth it.

"'Is it Rilla my Rilla?'Yeth."

I will confess, this one took me a little while to get into, likely because the last book was so enjoyable reading about the exhorts of the older children. Rilla wasn't especially close to my heart when starting this book. I'm happy to report that this book soared above all expectations once I pushed through a little bit in the beginning, and it became one of my favorites of the series. The sadness, fear and dread of World War 1 in the background against the day to day life in Prince Edward Isla...

Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables #8), L.M. MontgomeryRilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during World War I and the three Blythe boys: Jem, Walter, and Shirley, along with Rilla's sweetheart

gathering strength to finish this series out

"Faith and affection and loyalty are precious things wherever they are found."Finally down to the 8th and Last of the Anne of Green Gables, though Anne is now only a background character.This book breaks away from the dreamy nature of the series, and takes the reader through numerous hardships a family has to endure during war. In my opinion, all the heartbreak and sorrow faced by Anne's family adds a lot of realism to this final book. Adding anymore on this will be putting a spoiler.A lot has c...

Oh Rilla-my-Rilla. This series has had its ups and downs, but this one was worth all the pain. This book was perfection. Told from Rilla Blythe's point of view in diary format, we start in early 1914 and she is carefree, frivolous and worried about what hat she'll wear to the dance. Enter the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and suddenly Ingleside finds itself ensconced in WW1. This book had everything I need and never knew I wanted from this series. Completely takes the cake for my absolute fav...

It was recently drawn to my attention by a fellow Goodreads reader that the editions of Rilla of Ingleside, for which we had become accustomed, are abridged versions of the original edition that L.M. Montgomery published. Somehow along the way, an abridged edition appeared through an Amercian publishing house and that abridged version became the standard (accidentally). As a result, I was curious to discover what jewels of Rilla of Ingleside I was missing. While, I feel self-satisfied in the kno...

I thought for a good portion of this book that I would have to rate this one three stars, because for some reason it didn’t grab me. (Which was odd, since it has the highest stakes of any Green Gable book yet!) It was only after the midway point that I really became invested in it, and when I did it packed a tremendous emotional punch. I’m not sure what changed. Maybe I finally warmed to Rilla? A certain character’s death may have done it too. Or maybe I got into the rhythm of the story. Whateve...