Que adorable y alegres son estos libros ❤️

Ana la de Avonlea es el segundo libro de la serie de libros Ana la de tejas verdes. Si bien no me gustó TANTO como el primero si lo disfruté un montón.
Arranca este libro con una Ana de 16 años, que poco a poco va dejando la adolescencia atrás y se va transformando en una mujer adulta.
Ana empieza a trabajar de maestra en la escuela y a lo largo de la historia va a encontrarse con aventuras y dificultades.

Cada capítulo de este libro es una anécdota distinta, lo mismo que pasaba en el libro anterior. Pero leyendolos todos juntos vemos el crecimiento del personaje a partir de las cosas que le pasan en el día a día.
Me rei mucho, me emocioné y me gustaron mucho los nuevos personajes. La señora Lavender se ganó mi corazón. Y Paul Irving es un amor.

Algo que me gustó de este libro es el crecimiento de Ana, en algunos capítulos la veíamos mayor, cuidando a los niños y enseñándoles. Y en otros capítulos todavía veíamos la niña en ella, que supongo que no se perderá nunca.

Me encantó la historia, la disfruté un montón y recomiendo mucho esta saga, espero continuar pronto con el tercer libro

Anne of Avonlea picks up roughly where we left off with her in Green Gables, but it has a slightly different feel to it. Anne is a little older and has matured some since we first met her in her origin book. Of course she wouldn’t be Anne if she didn’t still meet with some accident or another from time to time, but the setting in which it occurs and how she comes out of the event are different. She isn’t the child who runs around in a dream world and talks in endless, run-on sentences. She still has flights of fancy, but she is more aware of the world around her and how she moves within it. She has a passion for fighting for what is right and for those less fortunate. She is a teacher! Anne finds a true “kindred spirit” in Miss Lavendar and it is during those scenes that we get more of that old Anne coming through. Without Anne to cause all the drama we have Davy, one of the twins that Anne helps to raise, and honestly he might stir the pot more than even she did as a child! Having lost a male role model whom she loved dearly, Anne makes a connection with the new neighbor Mr. Harrison, who takes to Anne like no one else. I found their scenes almost soothing. Anne of Avonlea is Anne’s transition novel – it is the time between a being a child in a small town and going away to college. You still have some of the old Anne, but you can see changes happening and know that when she goes away more will be yet to come.

One stylistic difference that I noticed in this novel that I didn’t in the first (maybe it was there and I just didn’t pick up on it, but it is a thing I do tend to notice), is that the author breaks the fourth was SEVERAL times. It’s not only that she refers the reader back to events that transpired in the first book, but she will say things to the effect of (and I’m paraphrasing here): “reader, you might recognize that…” or “if you are unfamiliar with these events, do pick up the book where it all started”. It almost feels a tad self-promotional rather than the trick of taking the audience aside to let them in on some special information, and I didn’t really think it was necessary to the story.

Audiobook Discussion: As this is the same narrator and the same series, my thoughts are essentially the same as in book 1, with a couple additional notes. Colleen Winton knocked her narration out of the park just as I expected and hoped! Her voices for the characters that appears in this book which were introduced previously are consistent with the prior treatment. There are a small handful of new characters and each is unique and quirky in their own way. As before, the most important is Anne, and while she is still prone to her flights of fancy, Winton brings and more measured and mature style of her manner of speaking. The narration between dialogue has an even pace that brings the listener back from the slow or quick speech patterns of the characters, which is like a cleansing of the palate before moving on. I know that Winton narrates the next book in the series, and I don’t think Post Hypnotic Press has released any more than the first three books, but I would be happy to listen to her any day.

This review was previously posted at The Maiden's Court blog and a copy of the book was received from the publisher.

I have never gotten past this book and although I liked it, I wasn't CRAZY about it like I am about Anne of Green Gables. But I'm finally motivated to go onto the next one.

what a comforting little series