Anne is ready to start the next chapter in her life, college. She sets out to Redmond College where she meets new people, rents a house with some of her schoolmates and begins to taste what adulthood is really like. Throughout the course of the novel we can see the shift of adolescence to adulthood take form in not only Anne, but in the people around her in her life. Everyone is starting to get married, start a family, yet Anne never feels worried by it – in fact she’s not really into it. She gets proposed to a few times and turns them down. The reader really enjoyed reading Anne’s independence; she’s just as clever and whimsical as when we first met her and the reader loves it. The way this novel ended though, leaves us in a bit of suspense as to where Anne’s story will go next. The budding romance between her and Gilbert that has been brewing since the first book, might come to a head, or it could crash and burn. That’s the thing about Anne, she’s very unpredictable, but that’s what makes her so loveable, you never know what she’ll do, but she’ll always do it with grace. Even though this novel was short, possibly the shortest book yet, we get so much as this spanned her entire time at college, where the new characters we met were just as fun as the old ones. We saw less of Diana as she went off to start her own life, which the reader could feel Anne’s sadness, actually the reader thought her wedding chapter would have been longer than it was, and filled with more of the wedding, but alas. We also got less of Marilla, too as Anne spent less time in Avonlea. We still got to see Davy quite a bit, and he was still up to his old bag of tricks; we saw even less of Dora, she could barely be called a character. We did meet Philippa, who fit right into Anne’s life; her energy and zest for life really bounced off Anne and they worked so well together. All in all, this was another splendid story in this series; things are definitely changing, but that is life, and it’s written so perfectly because it truly captures the essence of growing up.