While this novel is enjoyable, Anne of Windy Poplars is the weakest of the Anne series. Written partly in an epistolary style, the book allows the reader to see the world of Windy Poplars and Summerside High School from Anne’s perspective, as she writes love letters to her fiancée Gilbert, a medical school student in Nova Scotia. Parts of the book retain a traditional narrative style, but many of the characters and anecdotes echo too closely those previously described in earlier books of the series. While Anne of Windy Poplars is the fourth book in the series, it was the seventh Anne book that Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote, appearing in print in 1936, fifteen years after the publication of the final book in the series, Rilla of Ingleside, in 1921.