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March

Geraldine Brooks

3.68 AVERAGE

arose178's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

what_heather_reads's review against another edition

5.0

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leia_lynn's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional reflective sad

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

eclaytonbennett's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ashleejoy's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jon_thereader's review against another edition

4.5

I went into this book completely blind and couldn’t be happier about it. Without reading the back of the book, and bibliophile will come to realize that you are reading within the world of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The story follows the father of the March family -whose “little women” (the four daughters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) are the main characters in Alcott’s famous novel - and imagines the world he faced during the year he spends absent from his family. We learn much of his backstory and what he endured during his time surviving as a minister in the union army as well as finding his passion of teaching slaves or blacks being held as “contraband of war” to read and write. He is so doggedly just even to his own detriment. His views offer a refreshing perspective while he exists in a culture that (while being in the north) disagrees with his passionate abolitionist stances.

The writing in this book is ‘stunnin’ and I’m shocked that it is ranked as low as it is. There were some points that felt a little slow, but as a reader we were able to so fully experience this character and understand what he went through/how he viewed the world he was in.

We also get a small bit of the book from his wife’s perspective, and it is no surprise that the two of them raised such impressive “little women.”

I also thought it was cool that, just as the characters in Little Women are based off of Alcott and her sisters, Mr. March is based off Mr. Alcott.

If I had to choose one word to describe this book and its main character, it would be earnest.