I wasn't expecting to like this adaptation of Anne of Green Gables as much as I did. I'm not generally a graphic novel person, and at first I was a bit thrown off by the pupil-less eyes of all the characters, but by the end I was very drawn into it and surprised/sad that it was over so quickly. The scenes are well done and the landscape art is especially beautiful (there seems to be a lot of green, which is so fitting).

Certainly I would recommend reading the actual novel first, but after enjoying that as a teen as well as many viewings of the original movie, this distillation of the humor and poignancy of those scenes came back to me quite easily, and I was happy to rediscover my favorite Avonlea characters in graphic novel form.

(Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy)

Scrounged From: NetGalley

Format: Kindle
Author: Mariah Marsden
Illustrator: Brenna Thummler
Pages: 232
Content Advisory: None

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