If I could give it more stars, I would!!
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I think this was the BEST book in the series. I loved Rilla, and she IS like Anne in many ways. My favorite part was when Rilla took Jims home. And this isn't something the author just threw in the book; Rilla matures due to the war and taking care of Jims. She learns loss, maturity, and most important of all, love. I cried when Walter died, and I'm NOT a crier. I loved the end too, I cried there. I recommended these books to my sister and she loved them too. Lucy Maud Montgomery is a very talented writer. I just wish she had written more books!
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Wonderful
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If you like Anne of Green Gables in any way, you have to read the other books in order to see her grow up. She stills continue to get in trouble, romance with Gilbert continues, just about anything that can happen, happens. These books fulfill everything that you could ever want out of a book.
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Rilla of Ingleside
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This is one of my favorite book is the series, second only to Anne of the Island. I love the book. I liked everything about it except that Walter had died. That part of the book makes me cry everytime i read it. But all the rest is pure gold. I really like the love story of Rilla and Ken. It is so cute and sounds so wonderful. On the whole i would recomend this book to every one but i advise people to read the first seven.
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Rilla should have a series in her own right!
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At the risk of endorsing "Anne of Green Gables" series to turn into a never ending soap opera (ie Sweet Valley High or Star Trek) I really love Rilla of Ingleside better than all the Green Gables books. I study WWI in detail anyway, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found that Anne's children would be coming face to face with the War to End All Wars. It really helps to date the series. Anyway, I can really identify with Rilla because we are so much alike. However, the beginning of the book especially kept reminding me of the opening chapters in "Gone With The Wind" because Rilla is at a party when she first hears about the war, and a lot of the dialogue is very similar. ("The war will be over in a couple of months, etc.") Basically the feeling of seeing the dark cloud looming over the characters who have no idea how life-changing this event will be for them.
I really do think that Rilla should have had her own series, however, if L.M. Montgomery can't write them, I'd rather there be nothing at all, just left to the reader's imagination on what happens to Rilla and Ken and the surviving members of the Blythe clan. (Rather than have a disaster like Ripley's "Scarlett".) Because if you think about it, Rilla's sons will be called upon to fight WWII. So in that case, Rainbow Valley and Anne of Ingleside are the last books in which there is no backdrop or remembrance of war-- right before the peace is shattered.
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a blow-by-blow of World War I
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This is definitely my favorite in the series, BUT it is also VERY DIFFERENT from the other books, which I also recommend. This book is a fascinating account of one young lady's experience in Canada during World War I. I learned more about the war from this book than I have from all the history books I've read, combined. It really brings a human touch to history. It's sad and funny and very true to life.
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