Love Little Women, but No.

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I've always loved Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Little Men (the ACTUAL sequel to Little Women), and I'm open to very well-written modern tributes to original authors, but this one doesn't grab me. The banter between Jo and Mr. Niles and then later between Jo and Amy and Jo and Laurie felt excessive and vapid; the exposition packed into every sentence turned me off ... yes, I do recall the major events of Little Women like Beth's illness, the scorched dress and the pickled limes without having it all pushed in front of me in what was supposedly a casual everyday conversation. But where I really gave up was Chapter 3, when the characters referred to a "recipe" in 1869 although the word "receipt" was generally used for this term into the early 1900s. I don't have much patience for malapropisms and lost my interest to read further. That said, the cover was attractive so I give it two stars, and the words, "A Romantic Retelling" at the bottom probably would clue me in that this was not the historical fiction I craved.