Candy Bunny Reader

This will be the last of this series I will do in a while! Until I find more books I read in their entirety that I give one or two stars. The first four parts are here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 1.  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.  Goodreads summary  here . It was cool learning about Nigerian culture, but I hated the main character. The story overall was too sad. 2 stars. 2. Magic for Marigold by LM Montgomery. Goodreads summary here . Okay. For real. This book does not feel like LM Montgomery wrote it. The tone overall was mean-spirited and there were a lot of unlikable characters. Very few characters were likable, and there were some sweet moments but they don't last for very long. 2 stars. 3.  Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury.   Goodreads summary   here . In general, I found the story to be boring. The only scenes I remember were when one of the characters didn't want to eat eggs for breakfast, another character was singing and dancing...

I think this is the worst LM Montgomery book I read.  This was beyond disappointing! Magic For Marigold is a book with no actual plot to it. It's really just a bunch of short stories stringed together that narrate protagonist's Marigold Lesley's life living in the 1920s on Prince Edward Island from when she is born until she is 12 years old. But pretty much every chapter follows the same formula of sweet little imaginative Marigold getting into a situation against her will that gets her in trouble. And we are supposedly supposed to laugh at her misfortunes. Or how dorky she supposedly is for having a big imagination.  I seriously don't get this book. It has the same kind of things you would find in every LM Montgomery book (cottagecore setting in Canada, usually Prince Edward Island, sweet protagonists with a big imagination, eccentric other characters, cute cats, etc.) but the tone of the story is so cynical and...kind of asking us to laugh at how ridiculous everyone...