White Magic

by L.M. Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery

Avery Sparhallow was conceded to be a beauty, and had no rival in Burnley Beach. She was very pretty, with the obvious, indisputable prettiness of rich black hair, vivid, certain colour, and laughing, brilliant eyes. Nobody ever called Janet a beauty, or even thought her pretty. She was only seventeen—five years younger than Avery—and was rather lanky and weedy, with a rope of straight dark-brown hair, long, narrow, shining brown eyes and very black lashes, and a crooked, clever little mouth. She had visitations of beauty when excited, because then she flushed deeply, and colour made all the difference in the world to her; but she had never happened to look in the glass when excited, so that she had never seen herself beautiful; and hardly anybody else had ever seen her so, because she was always too shy and awkward and tongue-tied in company to feel excited over anything.

Genres: Short Stories, Audiobook, Romance, Classics

371 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2018

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.

Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Reviews

[Katja Labonté · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars & 3/10 hearts. Okay, so this one does deal with Janet going to a witch to get a love potion. However, from the attitude/tone it’s obvious Granny isn’t actually a witch and even Janet figures that out. This is the story of star-crossed lovers sorting themselves. Not my favourite (Avery isn’t very nice especially) but I don’t hate it, either….

A Favourite Quote: “It was a wonderful autumn day. There were wild growths and colours and scents in sweet procession all around the pond. Every curve in it revealed some little whim of loveliness.”

[Amanda Carver · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short story, and as others have said, predictable, but cute, and everyone is happy. Poor Janet is overshadowed by her sister, Avery's beauty, and is marrying the man SHE likes, but Avery has admitted to Janet she us not in love with him, so janet visits a whitch to buy a potion to make her man happy and help Avery fall in love with him, but it backfires, when a cousin visits just days before the wedding (but Janet wasn't aware Avery was already in love with this man) Janet goes to break Randall's heart and give him the news but his reaction surprises Janet

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I write these for myself. Skip.

This was a sleep story after Pride and Prejudice. I wasn't overly fond of any of the three. They weren't terrible either.

It was actually a collection of short stories that doesn't exist on Goodreads, so I've listed two of them as separate books. The third story isn't listed on Goodreads either. 'A Soul that is Not at Home.'

[Avril · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't stand the protagonist, and the story was very predictable.

[Mercedes · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.8/5

[JJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was this very predictable and very cliche? Yes but I enjoyed every second of it Nd the writing was Wally pretty, it's making me consider reading Anne of the Green Gables ( another work by this author). The audience of this book was definitely more young as well, maybe like a children's story.

[Eve Huckaby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Predictable and cliche but a good short read. It’s a sweet story if you don’t mind a little predictability;)

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a delightful little story.

[Alayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two sisters, one going to marry the man that the other loves. A bit of magic and voila! all works out in the end.

[Rhea · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was like my second audiobook ever and all i remember is getting really pissed off at someone at one point. anyways great read, super fun but like audiobook it cuz it's realllyyyyyy fun that way.