Louise Michalos

MARILLA BEFORE ANNE by Louise Michalos

I knew I wanted to read this book, from just the title. I am an avid fan of Anne of Green Gables. I have books, movies, and address book, and a cookbook. But I knew just a few pages into it, what the author was going to try to do and how wrong it was, to the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Marilla's middle name was put down here, as Anne. Marilla had a baby girl out of wedlock, that the family that adopted her, named her Bertha Anne. Bertha later marries Walter Shirley. It's too convenient for Anne's story. If Anne was indeed Marilla's granddaughter by blood, then Anne would never have been farmed out to other families to work as an unloved servant, nor would she have been placed into an orphanage.

Matthew and Marilla asked for a boy from the orphanage to help with some of the farm chores, to help Matthew. They didn't specifically request Anne.

Being true to the original novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this book doesn't make any sense at all. Not to mention the blasphemy used in this book. The Anne of Green Gables books never used any blasphemy. As it should be. Why is it that authors feel that using blasphemy is a good thing in a book? Highly disappointed. This book could have been so much more. It should have been titled BERTHA SHIRLEY BEFORE ANNE, and leave out everything about Green Gables and Marilla and Matthew.

If you have never read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this book is for you. If you have read the Anne books or watched the movies, this book will make no sense to you, there is no continuity to the original story.

Another Anne book called BEFORE GREEN GABLES by Budge Wilson has excellently told us of Anne's story before Green Gables.

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