Anne of Manhattan audiobook

For whatever reason, this really hit the spot for me as a childhood enemies to lovers contemporary romance. This was exactly what it said on the tin: a contemporary romance retelling of Anne and Gilbert getting together. Here's the thing - if you don't want to read about Anne and Gilbert getting it on, this is not the book for you. However, I was 100% down for that, so this ended up having a real sweetness to me that the nostalgia vibes fueled. A perfect palette cleanser... this was super fun!CW: sexual harassment

I love reading modern retellings of classics, so when I saw this debut of Brina Starler’s would be an Anne of Green Gables retelling, I knew I had to read it! I had just finished watching the first season of Anne with an E, so I was all about Anne, Gilbert, and their families. Anne of Manhattan turned out to be a charming, sweet romance that I adored!Anne and Gilbert are from Avonlea, Long Island, New York, and they have been rivals since they first met. Well, it was rivalry on Anne’s side and an unrequited crush on Gil’s side. But Gil being Gil, his crush lead him to pull at her pigtails, so to speak, to get any kind of attention from Anne, even the negative kind. They end their senior year of high school with a kiss but she misinterprets something he says and thinks this is another prank of his. Anne ghosts Gil until he leaves for California for college, and they never speak to each other again… until they reunite for their final year of grad school and are forced to partner together for a thesis project.If you’ve read Anne of Green Gables or watched any of its adaptations, you’ll see some very familiar faces in Diana, Marilla, Matthew, Rachel, and more. Brina Starler brings all these characters to life in modern day New York. The romance between Gil and Anne is lovely – I especially loved that we get inside both their heads with dual POV. Gil is an absolute goner for Anne and has been since the beginning, but I appreciate that he realizes his teasing of Anne might not have been the best way to show his affection. Anne has her own issues to deal with when it comes to trust, after growing up in an orphanage and then being taken in by Marilla and Matthew. I was afraid the romance would be overshadowed in this book, but thankfully it is the highlight of this book! We get to see Gil pining and working his way into Anne’s heart, and it’s sooo adorable.If you love Anne of Green Gables and want a sweet, sexy, modern retelling, I highly recommend this one. It’s got a great enemies-to-lovers romance and I loved the setting of New York!

Anne of Manhattan is a modern day retelling of Anne of Green Gables. It's no small task to take on beloved characters like Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe and come up with your own spin but yet still keep true to the core of what made the original book so special. I think the author pulled it off and I had a blast reading this book centered around one of my favorite fictional couples of all time.While this book can be read as a standalone, you'll probably get more out of the reading experience if you are at least somewhat familiar with L.M. Montgomery's classic book. If you need a brief refresher course, Anne Shirley is an orphan and has been bounced around different homes until she lands at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew are siblings and together they help raise Anne. Diana is Anne's best friend and neighbor. Gilbert Blythe is the boy who teases Anne on the first day of school and let's just say Anne knows how to hold a grudge. But maybe, just maybe, Gilbert is actually a pretty decent guy and perhaps Anne will figure that out some day. I think it's best to go into this book with an open mind as there are some changes made with the story and characters. But again, the author managed to capture the essence of the original book but gave it an update to fit in better in today's times. And that includes cranking up the steam factor quite a few notches. I'll admit I had a big, cheesy grin on my face practically the entire time I was reading this book because I was given the opportunity to be a part of these characters' world again and totally ate it up.I say give this book a chance if you are a fan of the original. Thank you to William Morrow for providing me with a copy of this book as part of the #WMTastemakers program. All thoughts expressed are my honest opinion.

three point five stars! ❀ this book may or may not have inspired me to start watching ‘anne with an e’... anyways, i absolutely adored this book, even without having any prior knowledge to the original classic ‘anne of green gables’, and that’s something i was a bit worried about at first, tbh. but this was a very easy read; it was easy to fall into and understand, easy to love the characters and understand their dynamics and their histories, and i really appreciated that! i also really enjoyed the modern day element and i’d be interested to see how it correlates to the classic setting. anne and gilbert were so freakin adorable to read about, i simply adored their relationship. we did get chapters in both perspectives and i loved all the pining that happened in gil’s chapters. he really is a simp for anne. all in all, this was a really quick and fun read and i’d definitely recommend!!

Full disclosure I am going to say things that may make you think I don't want you to read this book. But please know I do! I really really enjoyed it! So let me get a couple things off my chest, the things that gave me pause because of what Anne means to me. What Anne means to other Canadians. Anne of Green Gables is perhaps the most Canadian book there is. It is solidly engrained in our identity. So reading Anne and Gilbert as American's was hard. It felt wrong and a bit icky, because they're very much ours. And yes I recognize Anne is loved the world over but... Well possessiveness is strong with this one!With all of that being said I thought Brina Starler captured the characters brilliantly. She stayed true to the characters Lucy Maud Montgomery created albeit edgier and modern!I truly loved how Starler addressed Anne's past and how that influenced her present and how Gil and Anne grew separately and together. Miscommunication or lack of communication does come into play, a trope I hate but I will admit that with these two characters it makes sense. They are so stubborn!All the beloved characters are treated with care and I'd be remiss to not acknowledge how much I appreciated that. So while I started this read feeling incredibly petty, protective and frankly terrified, I ended it feeling pretty great! As far as retellings/continued stories go Anne of Manhattan ranks very high for me!

I have been a longtime fan of Anne, probably because I too am an Anne with an e (middle name) while all my cousins with the family middle name don’t have that e. I’ve read the books, seen all the old movies (recently learned there were some newer ones), binged the Netflix series, and even read and watched every episode/book of the spinoff series Avonlee. I even dated a Gilbert Blythe look alike. So yeah, I’m a fan. I was excited to see a retelling since all my friends are Austinites. I finally had a chance to say , seeeeeeeee my favorite story is important enough for retellings too. And this story does not disappoint. I can tell the author is a fan. The story has moved Green Gables to Long island, made it a winery, and starts with Anne in the last year of grad school for her Masters in Teaching. Gilbert has been away in California, but has moved closer to family as his father has fallen ill. Most readers remember Anne before adulthood, so at the beginning of this book seems a little late to the game, but through various flashbacks we get the story of young Anne and younger Gilbert and the love that wouldn’t die. The only thing I really miss from her younger story that is not retold here, is breaking the slate over Gilbert's head. He totally deserved it. But what the author uses to fill in those gaps like the beach scene and the kiss at the wrong time fit perfectly with the original story I loved so much. There were so many things to like about this book. There were also a few ehhhh things. For example, I didn’t not care for the sex scenes. There are only two, but the author aimed for steamy and instead came out sounding like a sex scene written by a man. And here’s the thing ... they are not needed. The original books never had sex scenes. This book could have alluded to happy fun times, and left the details out and it would have been just fine. I did like what they did with the character Marilla, and their eventual escape to Prince Edward Island. I also really enjoyed how they brought Anne and Gilbert together at the end. Overall, this was a really fun read that I think fans of Anne will enjoy, but I think people who never read the Anne books will enjoy it as well. It’s a light comedic romance that just puts a smile on the reader's face.

** spoiler alert ** At first, I was like, oh no. What are they doing to Shirbert? Because, you know, this isn’t any old couple. This is the best fictional couple to EVER have been written. And it seemed really shallow… like just any old smut. But then I got further in and I really appreciated it. The working on a college project together and then teaching a class together (augh dreams). And not just any old math class. Fiction writing. 🥹 and the students they helped. ❤️ I did die when they broke up and seeing my Anne (not literally MINE) not able to accept that people love and care for her and she is worth it KILLS ME EVERYTIME. and when Gilbert got in a car crash… The idea of a modern adaptation of Anne of Green Gables was different. At first it felt like they really had to make a point that it was in the modern era, because of all the texting and stuff. Maybe its because I mainly read old books, but it felt forced. I’m sorry, but Marilla and Rachel as a couple? It’s a NO from me, love. And Fred Wright is not a tough tattoo artist. The author very much takes creative liberties with Shirbert, which is fine. All in all, I liked it. It wasn’t on the level of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s work, but still in and of itself, good.

Anne of Green Gables reimagined in the twenty-first century? Sign me up! I have read and reread L.M. Montgomery’s books several times over, and I was very curious to see how Anne of Manhattan would stand up. I follow the author on Twitter and her descriptions of the book caught my eye, as did the promise of more romance between Anne and Gilbert.Brina Starler does a lot of things that work in this novel. Rather than trying to recreate an idyllic Prince Edward Island life, she moves her characters to New York. Anne and Gilbert are trying to find their way in NYC, and Avonlea is now a rural community on Long Island. I was initially wary, but it worked. In the twenty-first century, Anne’s deep love of Avonlea mirrored her early twentieth-century counterpart, and the modern place sparked to life very well.This is a partial review. You can find the complete text at All About Romance: https://allaboutromance.com/book-revi...

I haven’t read the original Anne of Green Gables story or read any other adaptation so I have no familiarity with the characters or world. Nothing in me expected this to be such a fun read or for how quickly I read this, all year I’ve only been able to focus and truly dive into my urban fantasy reads. Yet this random romance came out of nowhere and surprised me. Anne of Manhattan is full of personality and charm. I loved how Anne is particular and likes all the areas of her life to align and how Gil enjoyed bothering her and messing up her plans. This book has no plot and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Anne of Manhattan is basically fanfiction of the original story; so it reads like any other fanfiction. For a reader like me this is a plus, but even though I enjoyed it I can easily see this annoying people who prefer plot-driven stories or don’t like fanfiction. There are scenes of them going to work, planning their thesis, and generally pining over each other. Still, getting to see the casual moments of Anne and Gil hanging out, bickering, and the tension of their will-they-won’t-they romance was fun for me so I read this book in one sitting. The rest of this review is up on my blog.Other socials: Blog | Twitter | IG

Loved itI must admit I’ve never read Anne of Green Gables or even seen the movie (tv show?), but I loved Gilbert and Anne! Especially Gilbert, who loved her so much practically upon first sight. It was so romantic. Anne was a little spit fire and I loved her too, except when she was too stubborn to see what was right in front of her. I will probably at least watch the movie now…

This book had me in a chokehold. If you liked Anne With an E and were mad that they cancelled it after season 3 then this will satisfy your needs. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I'm not a fan of the third act conflict. (ALSO: BLACK BISEXUAL DIANA, GAY MARILLA. NEED I SAY MORE.)

** spoiler alert ** I didn't think I was going to like this. You're going to take some beloved Canadian characters from my childhood, turn them into modern Americans, and they're going to bang real steamy? Somehow, it worked. I think the distance between the LMM characters and these versions actually kind of worked in it's favor for me. A nod rather than a big hug. I get the 1 and 2 stars, because if I was after a full AOGG experience, this isn't it. But for what it was, it was wholly enjoyable.

definitely worth the read if you know anything about anne of green gables. gilbert and anne are just so incredibly fated to be together it’s actually painful. i did not appreciate the third act breakup or that little kerfuffle at the end but everyone’s alive so its all good. 4.1

Listen is this book good? Not really but it hits the nostalgia and the romcom that I needed and sometimes that’s all we can ask for. Will I re read this when I’m having a bad day? Probably.

there’s something about academic rivals-to-lovers and tons of pining that makes me go FERALLLLLLLL