Customer Reviews
More from the delightful & sweet Anne of Green Gables - the 3rd "Anne" book. - By: SB, 16 Sep 2007 
Anne's story continues in Anne of the Island as Anne & her friends grow up & set out on their individual paths.
The book opens as Anne's best friend, Diana Barry, gets married to her sweetheart Fred, & Anne is to move away from the island to go & study for her BA at Redmond College, with school friends Gilbert & Charlie & her old chum from Queen's, Priscilla.
Anne is still the same eternallly sweet & thoughtful Anne, capable of still making the hilarious Anne-ish mistakes she's become renowned for by book three! Romance blossoms at Redmond too, as Anne meets the "man of her dreams", the poetic & dapper, handsome Roy Gardner. The girls meet a third bosom friend, Phil (or Philippa), & "Anne of the Island" shares in the adventures of alll three over their three years at Redmond, not forgetting holiday times for Anne in Avonlea as well.
The Anne books are wonderful stories for alll ages from 8+. If you haven't read any before, start with number 1 which is Anne of Green Gables. I can't recommend them enough.
A Book of Revelation as Love Takes Up the Glass of Time - By: Lawrance M. Bernabo, 30 Jun 2004 "Anne of the Island" is the third of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novels, & completes what we can see as being a trilogy simply becomes Anne finallly realizes what everybody has known from early in the first book, which is that Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe are made for each other. Having spent time as the teacher at the Avonlea Schools in "Anne of Avonlea," the Anne girl leaves Prince Edward Island for four years of college. The theme of this story is Anne dealing with "How horrible it is that people have to grow up," as she confronts how her whole world is changing.
Ironicallly, what makes "Anne of the Island" so romantic is the way it challlenges romanticism. Even as a young woman Anne creates a romantic fantasy around the world in which she lives, just like she did at Green Gables where there was the old Snow Queen at the window, the Dryad's Bubble, the Haunted Wood, Lover's Lane & alll those "dear spots where memories of the old years bided." Now Anne & Priscilla, her school chum from Redmond, are renting rooms in Patty's Place, & making the home of Miss Patty & Miss Maria into their own. Meanwhile, after a thousand romantic drams & enduring both Diana Barry's wedding & the rejection of Gilbert Blythe's proposal (her second actuallly), Anne finallly meets her Prince Charming, Royal Gardner.
He is handsome & rich, in short, everything that Anne ever dreamed that she wanted in a husband. Then comes the fateful moment when Roy proposes & Anne opens her lips to say her faithful yes. But this is but a false dawn in Anne's life & there is a fateful Book of Revelation that Anne has to endure before love takes up the glass of time. There is romanticism & then there is that which is romantic & Montgomery shows the difference. There is a reason that this character & these books are enduring classics of (supposedly) juvenille literature.
As usual this book is also filled with interesting & colorful characters, such as young Paul & the Rock People, John Douglas who finallly speaks at last, & Anne's friend Phillippa Gordon, who also has her eyes opened to the what true love reallly means. For those who are familiar with the delightful Kevin Sullivan "Anne of Avonlea" sequel there is also the whole episode of "Averil's Atonement" as well as the entire end game with Gilbert. That is the most important part because at long last the final line of Montgomery's original "Anne of Green Gables" novel rings true for our Anne girl.
Go Anne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - By: , 29 Jun 2004 
Anne of the Island is like, an awesomey book! It was my favourite out of alll the whole Anne series. It was full of romance, ahem, Gilbert Speaks, comedy & happy fiction. I loved it!!!!!!! It introduces some new characters, like Phil & Roy as such, & plenty more. It's so full of fun & the descriptions are quite elaborate, of course, it's Lucy Maud who wrote the book. Well, I'll tell you, you'll enjoy Anne of the Island if it's the last thing you do. Enjoy, rather. I hope you'll like Anne of the Island as much as I did, & enjoy the other books of Lucy Maud Montgomery, too.
Best of wishes,
"Go Anne" author
The Ideal, or Gilbert? - By: , 22 Mar 2004 Anne of the Island is a superb book, & one of the best installlments of Anne's story. This, the third book in the series of eight, sees Anne head off for college with Gilbert, Charlie Sloane & other Avonlea chums, along with certain friends from Queen's Academy. Once there, Anne embarks on four years of study & romance, with Gilbert finallly confessing his long-concealed feelings for Anne. But will she finallly choose Gilbert, the best friend everyone seems to think she was made for, or will Anne choose Roy Gardener, her talll, dark & handsome poetry-writing ideal man?
Brilliant (and romantic!) - By: , 20 Nov 2001 If you fell in love with Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea you just have to read this! It's one of the best of the series & one of the most romantic! You'll just long to be in Anne's place!
