Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: The Woman

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm #3

by Eric E. Wiggin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Joe Boddy (Illustrator)

At seventeen, Rebecca inherits her Aunt Miranda's estate and she has high hopes of turning it into a working farm, taking care of her large family, and getting to know railroad executive Adam Ladd even better

Genres: Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Young Adult

Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

Reviews

[Audrey]

Although Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm cried out for a sequel, Kate Douglas Wiggin never wrote one. Her great-nephew, Eric Wiggin, wrote two sequels, but one seems to basically be a re-writing of the first book. "Returns To" picks up where the first book left off and satisfactorily (romancewise) finishes up the story.

[Anna Maria]

The Author didn't draw you into the story. I can without giving anything away tell that something tragic happened in the book, when they referred to it later it took awhile to get what they were talking about. There was no feeling in the characters, they didn't live and breathe. The book was very disappointing.

[Jenny]

No fanfiction can truly capture the magic of an original work, but some have gotten really, really close. I had low expectations but high hopes for this continuation of Rebecca and Adam's story.

Well... an attempt was made, and that's about the best I can say for it. Eric Wiggin has completely lost the joy and delight of Kate Wiggin's characters and story.

[Christy Reed]

Another cute story, and a good conclusion to the series. Like all of the books, I found it a little slow in places, it had abrupt jumps in others, and one thing that really irritated me was...



SPOILER ALERT!!!!



Why, when she heard the news about Adam, did she immediately jump to conclusions, instead of waiting to hear him out? Granted, it was shocking, but I would've thought that if she was ready to marry the guy, she would have at least thought, "Hey, this is odd, I better see what his side of the story is." After all, it seems to me that if you are ready to marry someone, you better have a good enough idea about them to know when something doesn't seem quite right.

[Anne]

I love this series! But, this book was a disappointment. Rebecca 1&2 were wonderful but book 3 was awful. It didn't follow the same principles that Rebecca held on to through the other books and it felt that it was written by a different author.

[Pretty Little Bibliophile]

I am so glad I got this book and read it in one go. I read Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm years ago and it was so very wonderful. I am happy that I could read this sequel more than half a decade down the line

[Kristy]

This whole series always reminded me of Anne Of Green Gables...never was that fond of these though.

[Meghan Szady]

It was an enjoyable and predictable read. It has a similar style/story line to Anne of Green Gables.

[Christine Candelaria]

I read this a few weeks after finishing the original book, which I had read previously a handful of times. The characters are shells of themselves, they seem like different people. Halfway through the writing and phrases started to seem more modern. It didn’t really keep me from understanding anything, but I seem to have missed a bit of background info by not reading the second book of stories. The plot lines were weird and the characters reactions felt stilted by the writing — it felt like all telling and no showing. The feelings expressed felt very dry and two-dimensional. Lastly, the book became increasingly preachy, with many, many references to religion. Since when was Rebecca et al so fanatic about Christianity? It felt like the author wanted to write a book to sell in a Christian store and used Rebecca’s story to lure in readers so he could shoehorn in his proselytizing. Between that, being bored and/or weirded out by the plot, and the poor writing, I skimmed the last quarter of the book.

I can’t recommend this book, unless you are super curious to know what it contains. I’m glad I read it because I would have continued to wonder about Rebecca’s story, but now that I have, I consider this fanfic and will not be accepting this as canon.. haha.