DNF at 12% because I don't want to sit with this thoroughly unlikable protagonist for 8 more hours.

Curmudgeonly old biddy Florence Valentine is out trying to buy cat food when she is hit by a truck and killed. A case of mistaken identity in the afterlife occurs and she has been accidentally chosen to be a Core Dungeon Master.

Florence is rude in a way that isn't endearing. She is mean, judgmental and refuses help. She butts heads with literally everyone she encounters and has no humility or manners. I think she's meant to be funny but she's just awful.

Middle-aged siblings Marilla and Matthew have requested to adopt a young boy to help on their farm at Green Gables, on Prince Edward Island. Some sort of miscommunication occurs and instead of a boy, red-headed Anne Shirley arrives instead. She is talkative and imaginative and wins them over into keeping her, and thus ensues her adventures at Green Gables.

Obviously we didnt have the language for this in 1908, but Anne is the embodiment of ADHD. She constantly starts one thing, gets distracted by a thought and moves to something else. She is forgetful and air-headed but charmingly earnest, while being very entertainingly dramatic. So many life-not-worth-living-anymore scenarios of great import befall her, and her self-assured attitude manages to both get her in to trouble and endear herself to people in her community. She's funny.

A lot of negativity centres on her being red-headed; she is teased fairly constantly and has a self-loathing of her hair colour that seems unnessessarily excessive to a modern reader. Its nice that this isnt such a big deal anymore. Progress!

Very charming, very enjoyable.