Rebecca Returns to Sunnybrook: Book 3 (Rebecca, No. 3)

Rating:
Summary: Great Conclusion
Review: This is a wonderful conclusion to a great series. Aunt Miranda is dead and Rebecca is in charge of the brick house. Life has changed dramatically. However, familiar faces such has Emma Jane and Adam Ladd still appear. Mr. Ladd is taking on a new role in this book. Rebecca has brought her mother and younger siblings to come and live with her and Aunt Jane. I thoroughly enjoyed this great book. For those who are wondering, this is book was previously published under the title of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: the Woman.

Rating:
Summary: not as good as the original
Review: This is not written by Kate Wiggin, but by Eric Wiggin. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is a charming fresh story, with the same sort of flavor as "Anne of Green Gables." Book 3 is more like a Victorian "improving" tale, with plenty of scripture thrown in. It's as if the author, a minister, wanted to tame the original Rebecca (whom he would not have liked if he had met her) and turn her into a good Christian wife.

The characters are one-dimensional and the writing is banal. The author kills off one of Rebecca's brothers in one chapter, and then totally ignores it in the next chapter, which is cheerful and lighthearted. The characters' feelings just aren't real.