I thought things couldn't get worse...Then this book doubled the number of children.So basically, if you want my review of this, take my review of the last book and make it twice as mean.That's all.Bottom line: The love of this series is getting beaten out of me.1.5 stars------------currently-reading updatesi am now giving this series the greatest insult i can manage:i'm listening to it as an audiobook even though i have a physical copy.clear ur sh*t book 57quest 24: a book in a series

LMM's stories are the absolute loveliest. I just adore her characters! This book is cute and funny and mostly light-hearted, which is exactly what I needed.

If the last book wasn't really about Anne, this go-round isn't even about Anne's children. Instead, we meet the new minister's kids. Talk about a family that really NEEDS Nanny Mc Phee! Reverend Dad has been floundering since his wife passed away, leaving him to raise four young 'uns alone. He's a loving father, but constantly distracted, and preoccupied. He can frequently be found with his nose buried in a book. (I can relate.) Though an elderly, bumbling relative is attempting to care for them...

The front cover is simply maddening! There are four girls, and Anne only has three, so one must be a Meredith. So which one??The boy in the water is, I'm thinking, Shirley, and the tall one is Walter. The girl sitting is Diana.If the girl in the blue dress holding the flowers is Rilla and the one holding the basket is Nan, or vice versa, then who is the second redhead? Rilla's hair is a softer red, and neither of the Meredith sisters has red hair.Till my dying day I will be puzzling over this......

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. I love all the children (except Mary Vance) and how brave my darling Walter is and John and Rosemary's romance (it's my favorite 'side' romance in the whole series, I think). Almost everything about this book is sweetness and adorableness. <333333

As others have mentioned, Anne is basically absent from the 7th book in her series, appearing as a supporting character, and even then, mostly just listening to other people. The story focuses on the Meredith children, neighbors to the Blythe family, so even the Blythe children barely register.It's still a sweet tale, but other than the setting and some familiar characters, it really could be a completely separate novel rather than part of the Anne series. Poor Gilbert gets about one sentence to...

5+ stars & 8/10 hearts. Oh, my heart. This is such a lovely book. It just makes you so *happy.* The characters are all so real and loveable (or not!) and humorous and... *living.* The scenes are so interesting and funny and beautiful and sad... Oh, how those last paragraphs make me sad! There are a couple euphemisms; mentions of ghosts; and I don’t agree with everything. But it’s a wonderful book. Anne of Ingleside starts foreshadowing; then this one reminds poignantly of what’s coming up... and...

The Blythes are living in Four Winds and life is going great. They've befriended the local pastor and his family-- The Merediths. The Meredith family is very endearing. They have lost their mother and their father always seems so distracted (which really got on my nerves). They do the best they can with a useless Aunt Martha who makes disgusting food the children call ditto and many hijinks ensue. These poor little kids just warmed my heart right up with their preconcievened notions and how badl...

Though this book focused more on the Meredith family than Anne’s, I found it to be one of my favorites of the series! The whimsical world of the children’s minds were enthralling, and I was incredibly anxious for the happy ending to finally come about!

I'm so happy I finally read Rainbow Valley! I read the previous books in the ANNE OF GREEN GABLES series by L.M. Montgomery a few years ago now ... but just never got around to book seven. Now I have! *grins* And it was fun! I'm so excited to get my hands on a copy of Rilla of Ingleside!It was wonderful to be back in this classic world, filled with wonderful characters. The bits we saw of Anne, I, of course, loved! I had missed her! She is as passionate, whimsical, sweet, and delightful as ever....

4 stars.Rainbow Valley was a sweet little installment in the Anne series that was mainly focuses on the kids. It honestly felt like a bit of a spin off because of how much it focused on the Meridith kids, while Anne and family were practictally side characters. Still, I did enjoy it very much even if the shadow of the impending Great War did creep in here and there and make me sad. (Darn that Pied Piper metaphor that kept making me want to cry.)This story was so character driven I think the best...

I remember reading Rainbow Valley when I was a kid and enjoying it, but not loving it. I still have that same issue today. This is technically the 7th book in the Anne of Green Gables series. However, it was the fifth book published. L.M. Montgomery went back later and wrote Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside. I think that is why I often felt as if Anne of Ingleside was more dark than the earlier books in the series.This novel though it proclaims it is an Anne of Green Gable book really...

Full (mini) review now posted!If the previous book was more about Anne’s children than the woman herself, this installment was more about the children’s new neighbors than the children themselves. A new minister has come to town, and he’s an absentminded widower with four children. These are good kids, but they’re basically raising themselves and they more than a little wild. They get into all kinds of messes and scrapes, and were a pleasure to read about. As with all of the Anne books so far, e...

Albeit that I have most definitely always enjoyed reading about both the Meredith children and Anne and Gilbert Blythe's offspring encountering both fun and sometimes even adventure in L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valley (and also do find Mary Vance not only entertaining but also very much a breath of reality, of the sorry fact that neglected and abused children existed even in L.M. Montgomery's for the most part oh so positive and delightful Anne of Green Gables universe), indeed Rainbow Valley ha...

Over ten Mary-Sues in one book? Got to be a record. I thought Book 6 was rock bottom - turns out I was wrong. To catch you up - book 6 of ANNE of Green Gables demoted Anne to a secondary character and her six precocious (obnoxious) children shared the spotlight. Gag.Well, if that wasn't bad enough, book 7 has Anne as a tertiary character. L. M. Montgomery doubled the amount of precocious children and shoves Anne's kids off to the side. Are. You. Kidding. Me. Anne's kids are secondary to the "Ma...

I get the distinct impression the author didn't really want to write another Anne book but her publisher talked her into setting this one in the 'Anne' world so it would sell more copies. Anne and her family are really only secondary characters in this book (barely even that, to be honest) as the focus shifts to the Meredith family who have just moved into town.Fortunately, I found the new cast engaging and entertaining. Once I'd got my head around the shift in focus, I really enjoyed this one.

"Mr. Wiley used to mention hell when he was alive. He was always telling folks to go there. I thought it was some place over in New Brunswick where he come from."The Anne of Ingleside brought a change, not subtle, in terms of Anne's part in the story, by shifting the focus to her children. Rainbow Valley consolidates that change by focusing even more on them and their acquaintances, while making Anne a back ground character.I've read some reviews before stating that this is the point where the s...

~4.5 stars~Ok I'm going to be honest, this wasn't my favorite Anne of Green Gables book...it was cute with all of the kids and it was interesting to learn more about the Blythe children, but the majority of the time this was about their neighbors, the Merediths. I'm not saying it was terrible, because it wasn't...it just wasn't as good as some of the others in my opinion...please don't get mad at me for those who LOVED this one hehe xD

Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables #7), L.M. MontgomeryRainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و پنجم ماه سپتامبر سال2012میلادی...

I am determined to finish this series however it is becoming hard work. Overall I just feel like the author was purely page filling at this stage as this book is filled with nothing but air. This mainly focuses on the children who live in the same village as Anne and it's really just a rehash of everything Anne did as a child. Its Anne of Green Gables all over again but with more kids and a different setting. However the last few chapters paved the way for a good story line in book eight so fing...