A Tangled Web (Paperback) by Lucy Maud Montgomery

from atimco

I don't think L. M. Montgomery could have been very happy during the writing of A Tangled Web. It seems every other character has a secret, passionate love for someone other than his or her spouse for the entirety of their marriage. The few "good" characters we're supposed to sympathize with are ...

from jphilbrick

I liked this a lot. There were some characters I wish there had been more depth on, like Brian, but overall I liked the range of characters. I could have done without the last chapter, however; the Sams were my least favorite pair (in terms of their reconciliation) and the last paragraph left me ...

from amelish

Genteel, Canadian-spinsterly version of a potboiler, with some surprisingly lovely descriptions of the sky.

from lkernagh

[A Tangled Web], first published in 1931, is considered one of the few books published by Montgomery that was written for a predominantly adult audience. The premise of the story is an interesting one - two families, the Darks and the Penhallows, comprise an extended clan that has seen no fewer t...

from gypsysmom

I read this book when I was young but it remained one of my favourite L. M. Montgomery books. My sister passed her copy on to me and since I was looking for a book set in PEI for a reading challenge I decided to go with this one. Although I remembered the bare skeleton of the book I didn't rememb...