"I hope you’ll pass through life’s gauntlet of trials with all your passion and fire intact.”
"I hope you’ll pass through life’s gauntlet of trials with all your passion and fire intact.”
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Thank you to Feiwel Friends and BookishFirst for a copy of this book for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
content warnings(from storygraph): racism, slavery, war, mentions of death, chronic illness
I entered a raffle for this book as I was somewhat familiar with Little Women, and was excited to read a retelling of it, especially by an author whose first book I gave 4 stars already. The cover was gorgeous as well. I believe I used this for a readathon prompt where the cover reminded me of springtime!
Please take my review with a grain of salt as I read Little Women many years ago and only gave the original three stars. I don’t remember it much at all, so it’s very possible what I didn’t like is from the original story!
This book felt less like a story and more of a “in this new setting, here’s how I would write my retelling and why”. Everything jumped around and felt like partial scenes or snippets of conversations. I struggled with the audiobook of this as the omniscient narrative made me have to pause and rewind to see who has just thought a thought or said something.
I enjoyed Part Two, especially, due to the March sisters being mostly grown up, and was disappointed that that was only the final part of the book.
I unfortunately did not like the sequel to A Song Below Water either, so this is probably my last read by this author.
⭐⭐✨
Thank you to Feiwel Friends and BookishFirst for a copy of this book for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
content warnings(from storygraph): racism, slavery, war, mentions of death, chronic illness
I entered a raffle for this book as I was somewhat familiar with Little Women, and was excited to read a retelling of it, especially by an author whose first book I gave 4 stars already. The cover was gorgeous as well. I believe I used this for a readathon prompt where the cover reminded me of springtime!
Please take my review with a grain of salt as I read Little Women many years ago and only gave the original three stars. I don’t remember it much at all, so it’s very possible what I didn’t like is from the original story!
This book felt less like a story and more of a “in this new setting, here’s how I would write my retelling and why”. Everything jumped around and felt like partial scenes or snippets of conversations. I struggled with the audiobook of this as the omniscient narrative made me have to pause and rewind to see who has just thought a thought or said something.
I enjoyed Part Two, especially, due to the March sisters being mostly grown up, and was disappointed that that was only the final part of the book.
I unfortunately did not like the sequel to A Song Below Water either, so this is probably my last read by this author.