3.5 stars. Published before Anne of Green Gables and extremely similar, but damn. I'm American and the American nationalism was straight up annoying to me so people from other countries probably want to stab themselves with an ice pick in a couple of these chapters. That small thing aside, it is a charming, cute little book that actually came off slightly more depressing than Anne of Green Gables. Maybe I just connected more with Anne and had more confidence in her abilities to grow into an amazing woman, but I feel like Rebecca's future is super uncertain at the end of the book and it makes me low key anxious.

Or maybe I just feel like this because I'm reading L.M. Montgomery's "Emily" series at the same time and they're also super similar and also better written, in my opinion.