I always think that there's a lot this book slips over. We really don't see much of Anne's university life - Anne of the Island is far more concerned with her friendship with her flatmates and her developing romance with Gilbert Blythe. And it's all very enjoyable, as the Anne books tend to be, but I think it's an improvement upon the previous in the series. Basically because Anne, here, is surrounded by a variety of different characters. Most of them are utterly sympathetic, but still - she needs that variety of personality to sort of leaven all of her over-imaginative nature. In a sense it's a shame that so much of the book is spent away from Green Gables, as Marilla - who has always been the character who best sets Anne off - is absent from most of the story. On the other hand, it means that the awful Davy is also barely present, which after Anne of Avonlea is nothing but relief. If nothing else, though, the romance with Gilbert is done very well. Granted, the execution of that last bit is full of melodrama, but it's Montgomery writing it and not Anne, if that makes sense, so it has just enough restraint to be effective.