The Blue Castle
Author: L.M. Montgomery
Rating: 4.75/5.0
This is my first ever read of a L.M. Montgomery novel, you know the Anne of Green Gables author. I think this could be categorized as blasphemy in some circles! And really, when thinking of how this could have happened (since I think I've seen Anne books in every Children's section of every library or bookstore I've ever been in), I think perhaps the flowers and bonnets book covers kept me away. Thankfully, this is no more.
So, back to The Blue Castle. This is a stand-alone novel from what I can tell; it's about a young woman named Valancy who is a bit of a plain Jane living in a small town where everyone knows everyone. She's been cowed her whole life by her mother and circumstance (and bored out of her mind) until she gets the news that she has roughly one year to live. Well, at this point she decides to have a little fun, and it's here that the novel gets interesting. Plain Jane no more!
It ends in a fairy tale type way and since I picked this book for the Once Upon a Time II Challenge for the fairy tale category, it fit perfectly for that. I think I would have liked the novel a teensy bit more if had ended a little less fairy-tale-ish even, but I understand why it ended how it did.
But I did think about this book and the characters long after I finished the novel. Isn't falling in love with a book a great feeling?
Rating: 4.75/5.0
This is my first ever read of a L.M. Montgomery novel, you know the Anne of Green Gables author. I think this could be categorized as blasphemy in some circles! And really, when thinking of how this could have happened (since I think I've seen Anne books in every Children's section of every library or bookstore I've ever been in), I think perhaps the flowers and bonnets book covers kept me away. Thankfully, this is no more.
So, back to The Blue Castle. This is a stand-alone novel from what I can tell; it's about a young woman named Valancy who is a bit of a plain Jane living in a small town where everyone knows everyone. She's been cowed her whole life by her mother and circumstance (and bored out of her mind) until she gets the news that she has roughly one year to live. Well, at this point she decides to have a little fun, and it's here that the novel gets interesting. Plain Jane no more!
It ends in a fairy tale type way and since I picked this book for the Once Upon a Time II Challenge for the fairy tale category, it fit perfectly for that. I think I would have liked the novel a teensy bit more if had ended a little less fairy-tale-ish even, but I understand why it ended how it did.
But I did think about this book and the characters long after I finished the novel. Isn't falling in love with a book a great feeling?
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