1.15k reviews for:

March

Geraldine Brooks

3.68 AVERAGE

walkingunund's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad tense

emilycecele's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

dodoreadsbooks's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

janmaj's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Maybe I need a reread of Little Women to appreciate this more. Good story about the Civil War and well-written but books written in first person aren’t my favorites. 

kqk's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rachel_mft's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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I think I have to give up on this one. I have loved the other two Geraldine Brooks novels I've read, but this one just rubs me the wrong way. I think I'm morally opposed to authors appropriating other writers' characters for their own fiction. March is an imagining of the time the father in Little Women, Mr. March, spent in the Union Army during the Civil War (remember, in Little Women he's away in the war for the first part of the book). All of the scenes that depicted Marmee and the girls, and the Marches' courtship, just felt so false to me. So did the way Emerson and Thoreau were dropped in as characters. None of it rang true for me, so I'm setting it down.

rlk7m's review against another edition

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The writing was GREAT, but I really just hate reading anything relating to the Civil War, and life is too short to spend time with books you don't care to finish. I was happy to make it past page 100. Moving on...

erykahjoy's review against another edition

3.0

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There is nothing wrong exactly with this book. It is well written and if you like Little Women, then it is for you. There are just a few things about it that drove me nuts.

bourbonandabook's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mishamir's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes