It was a good read, although it's, for me, the weakest in the Emily trilogy. I felt sad and frustrated with Emily's pining for Teddy but being prevented from revealing her true feelings because of pride, and I felt annoyed with Teddy for not being straightforward. And just when they were finally together.... the book stops abruptly, as though L. M. Montgomery was in a terrible hurry to finish the book and be over with. I was pleased with the happy ending, but: what's to become of New Moon? And am I never to meet Emily's children? I'm really hankering for another Emily book!

Miscommunication trope lovers—this one’s for you.

و بالاخره سومین کتاب از مجموعه امیلی که هر کتاب قشنگ تر از قبلی بود و عاشق امیلی و شخصیت و ماجراهاش شدم و به همه پیشنهاد میدم بخونید و از دنیای قشنگ مونتگمری لذت ببرید
در این کتاب چون امیلی به سن جوانی می رسه، بیشتر و عمیق تر از قبل با مفهوم عشق و رنج و تنهایی آشنا میشه. اما در کنارش روزهای خوش زیادی هم تجربه کرده. اتفاقاتی که نفسم رو بند می آورد اما خیلی زیبا و شیرین بود و تهش نفس راحتی کشیدم
یکی از مزیت های این کتاب نسبت به آنشرلی اینه که شاید خیلی هامون از ماجرا و پایانش خبر نداشته باشیم و این خیلی جالبه و پا به پای امیلی غصه می خوریم و شاد میشیم
واقعا کتاب به یاد ماندنی و زیبایی بود و از خوندن تک تک کتاب ها و فصل های کتاب، بی نهایت لذت بردم

My soul hurts

Really glad it ended the way it did!

Neatceros pēdējo reizi, kad tik daudz melodrāmas NEBŪTU bijusi kaitinoša un nogurdinoša parādība. Šajā gadījumā tas bija izklaidējoši, varēja nedomāt ne par ko citu un vienkārši besīties par to, vai kāds beidzot izdomās atzīties savās mīlestībās utt. Es ticu, ka daudzām topošojām autorēm grāmatu sērija par Emīliju varētu būt īsts notikums, jo šis ir ieskats rakstnieces pieaugšanā, meklējot ceļu uz publikācijām un savu tekstu nodošanai plašākai auditorijai, tajā pašā laikā spītējot ģimenei un draugiem, kas rakstīšanu neuzskata par cienījamu nodarbošanos, bet gan laika izšķiešanu un muļķību pastāstiņu radīšanu. Un šāda attieksme šur tur manāma vēl joprojām.

(atgādinājums man pašai, ka jābeidz reiz slinkot un beidzot taču jāraksta)

It's unnerving to watch a sparkly-eyed character fall into a deep depression, but the way Montgomery pulled it off makes this my favorite of the trilogy. (Also though, could we have had a little more payoff at the end after pushing through all the gloom? None of this Austen "and now I'll gloss over the juiciest part that I've been building up for ages" nonsense.)

This is the third and final book of a lesser-known series by the author of Anne of Green Gables. The Anne books are more popular, but the Emily books are deeper and darker, and some of my favorite young adult literature. Like Anne, Emily is an orphan. Finding herself alone in the world, she goes to live with conservative relations. The three books chart her coming of age, her college years and her professional endeavors, and are excellently written. Emily is a character of ups and downs -- people who dismiss L.M. Montgomery as a flowery girl's writer have never read the Emily books (or are idiots). When she finally achieves hard-won and often bittersweet success (in life, in work, in love), you are soaring with her.

Montgomery's work is constantly under-estimated, and the way the books are marketed doesn't help (the flowery script, the swoony illustrations). There are many layers at work in her stories, and some pioneering feminist concepts tucked in between the deep appreciation of nature, the commentary on the stuffy contemporary society of her day, and the delightful, well-drawn characters.

The best thing to come from this book is that it cured me of shipping Laurie/Jo in n  Little Womenn.

In both stories, we have a brilliant, fiery young girl who wants to write for a living has two suitors. One is a young, handsome, artsy but shallow man with curly locks. The other man is noticeably older and sadder, and not conventionally handsome, but he understands the heroine’s artistic struggles and he feels things much more deeply than the boy can.

Jo rejects Laurie in favor of Friedrich, and grows as a person because of it. Emily rejects Dean in favor of Teddy, ensuring that she will never again be uncomfortable or reevaluate her worldview ever again. Yippee.

Emily’s Quest is written in Montgomery’s later style—fragmented, full of haunting descriptions and amusing journal entries/letters, but disjointed and sometimes barely coherent.

In this book, Teddy—arguably the blandest man in fiction—goes away to art school in Montreal, and Emily, who can run circles around him mentally, pines for him. She tries to focus on her writing and gets a lot of rejections. She also mourns the loss of her dear teacher and mentor, Mr. Carpenter.

Then a severe injury leaves her laid up for several months, and Dean Priest sits faithfully at her bedside all that while, talking and reading and resonating with her. He admits his true feelings to her, she accepts his offer, they become engaged and buy the Disappointed House that has so fascinated her since moving to Blair Water.

Dean has been nothing but supportive and a little awed, albeit possessive, of Emily so far, but he suddenly turns as dismissive of her writing as Casaubon was of Dorothea’s attempts at scholarship in n  Middlemarchn. It’s completely out of character. It’s meant to make us hate Dean just in time and ship Emily with Teddy “Cardboard Cutout” Kent. I have the highest respect for Maud usually, but this is nothing short of jamming the story through the Ivory Gate. It’s such a cheap, obvious trick that Rick Riordan or Cassandra Clare could use it.

And then, not even halfway through the book, Emily has one of her psychic dreams about Teddy and breaks it off with Dean.

Dean completely disappears from the story after this, and without him it devolves into an inane love square involving Emily, Teddy, Ilse (who goes from being amusing to loathsome in this installment), and Perry. This subplot concludes in one of the very silliest deus ex machinas I’ve ever read.

There are a few triumphant moments. Emily’s first book gets published, and it’s appropriately epic.

She also gets a number of marriage proposals, one from a gothishly handsome and utterly insane writer named Mark Delange Greaves. He shows up out of nowhere and promptly goes back there, but what fun he was! He left a story unfinished, and his publisher gave it to Emily to tie up in order to fit the deadline. Mark hated the grafted ending and went to New Moon to give its writer a piece of his mind, but he winds up smitten with her brilliance and spooky beauty, proposes to her on the spot, and breaks an heirloom crystal goblet when refused before storming back down the hill with his black hair and matching cape flying behind him. He is W.B. Yeats meets Kylo Ren. Seriously, Em, if you don’t want Dean, take this guy. He’s stark raving nuts, and you will never be bored.

But that brings us to the problem here. Dean is Emily’s soulmate, the Yin to her Yang, the Hades to her Persephone, the answer to her question. They fit together perfectly, and Montgomery, in a rare moment for her of not letting the story run its natural course, pries them cruelly and senselessly apart.

I’m glad I read this trilogy and I still dearly love the first two books. But oh, how I wish it had ended differently!

امیلی تا حدودی در نویسندگی موفق میشود . عاشق میشود و دوران پر فراز و نشیبی را می گذراند

I love most of L.M. Montgomery's books, but this one is just a little too painful to read. Does any other book have two such infuriating love interests as Dean Priest and Teddy Kent?

1.5 stars
I cannot remember the last time I felt such a burning urge to box a character's ears.
Emily, you are an idiot and I do not understand thee.
The end.

No, but seriously, this book is all rush and romance. I did not understand Emily's refusal to go to New York in the last book. I still don't. I think it was cowardly of her. And so, when she was lonely and feeling left behind, I could not sympathize.
But here is my confession: I've spent a lot of my life feeling like I needed to break away from the stereotype that good homeschool girls stay home and write wholesome books and get married. I fought it when I went to college far away. When I studied abroad. When I repeatedly moved across the country. When I attended law school. I've fought my butt off for my own version of New York so Emily throwing herself a pity party because she decided to stay home and no one else did...
I understood it. And I don't despise Emily for her decision. I despise her reasoning because she uses her muse as an excuse to hide behind. And then freaks out when the expected consequences of her decision come. Anyway, can you tell it touched a cord?

But I was willing to walk down the path not taken with Emily and cheer on her pursuit of fame. Except this book isn't really about her pursuit of fame. It is about Love.
And it made me want to bash my head against a wall.
Can nobody freaking communicate?!
The only reason this book isn't getting one star is because it didn't actually ~spoiler~ marry anyone to the wrong person. It just threatened to do so for pages and pages.
It was so angsty. And so unnecessary. And somehow also so rushed? The actual romance took FORfreakingEVER but Emily gets a steady stream of gentleman callers that all blurred together.

Anyway, I did not have much sympathy for this plot. Thankfully, it is shorter than the first two.