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Title: Why is this novel so dull?
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Anne of Green Gables, but Anne of Avonlea is devoid of all that made the first lively and captivating. We rarely see the world through the descriptive lens of Anne's eyes and colorful words in the second book as we did with the first. Instead we are bludgeoned over the head with narrative bucolic scenery after narrative bucolic scenery. Gone is the tension between Anne and Gilbert and gone is the hilarity of Anne's growing pains, and no sympathy is created for the twins Anne and Marilla have adopted. It's as if Montgomery has dumped them into the story and left them there to fend for themselves. I am only halfway through, but the narrative has become so tedious and dull with scenery and very little story, that I may not be able to wade through what should have been edited and rewritten.
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