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2.94 AVERAGE
2.94 AVERAGE
3.5 stars for sure! This book came to me in the middle of the longest reading slump I've ever had so I was a little skeptical of it. Worth the read to pass the time if you don't start to nitpick the story.
A MORE SPOILER-Y AND IN DETAIL REVIEW COMING SOON!
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Very good! It is a VERY good modernization of Little Women and the drama from the original book translated very well to modern times and Anna Todd writes it wonderfully.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
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:
No
You may recall that this book was one of my birthday gifts to myself. It’s a modern retelling of Little Women. I enjoyed it, especially at the beginning, but I didn’t love it like I was hoping I would. I think it was just too slow. Thankfully though it ends before things go off the rails (in my opinion). When I watch the movie version of Little Women, I always stop after the first hour, so in that way, this book was perfect for me.
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je l’ai lu pour vous, vous n’aurez pas besoin de le faire...
alors comment dire cela avec des termes politiquement corrects :/
j’ai détesté ce livre et je tiens à m’excuser envers Louisa May Alcott car cette « reprise » a juste piétinée l’œuvre originale qui pour le coup est incroyable.
les personnages sont absolument ignobles les uns envers les autres, tout le contraire de ceux des quatre filles du docteur march, la plume de l’auteure est vulgaire, le contraste de notre monde actuel et de l’ancien ne marche pas (certains détails sont repris et font sérieusement halluciner) enfin bref ne le lisez pas !
alors comment dire cela avec des termes politiquement corrects :/
j’ai détesté ce livre et je tiens à m’excuser envers Louisa May Alcott car cette « reprise » a juste piétinée l’œuvre originale qui pour le coup est incroyable.
les personnages sont absolument ignobles les uns envers les autres, tout le contraire de ceux des quatre filles du docteur march, la plume de l’auteure est vulgaire, le contraste de notre monde actuel et de l’ancien ne marche pas (certains détails sont repris et font sérieusement halluciner) enfin bref ne le lisez pas !
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
i feel like i need to preface this review by pointing out that i have no problem with adaptations of preexisting properties. i'm the type of person that, if i love a story, i will read it/watch it in any way i can get it and probably like it-- and even if i don't like it, i don't begrudge anyone trying to adapt it to begin with, because you can't "ruin" that story that i already loved. a new spin on something is worth the try, and if it doesn't work, the original will always be there for me to love.
so needless to say, with little women being my favorite book of all time, i was really, REALLY excited to read this book. i felt the LW story is one that lent itself well to a modern twist, particularly given the war setting. but now that i've read it, i find myself just... utterly confounded by this novel.
that's not to say everything in this book was off-putting. i actually really liked how the laurie/jo relationship was handled (for someone who still relives the biggest heartbreak of her life every time she rereads the original LW, it felt like a warm balm upon my soul), and admittedly i started getting a lot more into it around the time mr. spring was revealed to have been injured; i think it did interesting things to the interaction between the girls and especially the way jo reacted to things. that helped a lot. but that was more than halfway into the book and i only got to that point by groaning my way through the slog that was the first half, and if i had been any less stubborn and prideful a person, i would've given up on it way before i reached that point.
what really baffles me is some of the characterization choices she makes from the get-go. meg's entire plot of choosing between two guys was completely insipid to me to the point that i started skimming through every section that even involved shia or john brooke because i just couldn't stomach the forced drama anymore. i kind of get the idea she was trying to get at-- which she really only makes explicit in the VERY LAST CHAPTER, might i add-- of women having the choice of what they want to do with their life, even if that choice ends up being the life of a housewife. that's a fair point to get to, even if it did take too long to get there and then have it come up in a very abrupt manner. what bothers me is that she never even considers the option of what she wants to do for HERSELF rather than just formulating her entire life around a man's choices. you want to be with shia, that's fine, but do YOU want to spend the foreseeable future traveling, meg? you want to be an officer's wife, that's fine, but will YOU feel satisfied giving up a career that you actually seem to like, meg? those were options that were never even considered by her, and add to that the general shallowness of the love triangle, and the whole thing was just starting to give me hives after a while.
jo felt closer to LW!jo, which was good, but then at times she seemed so overly concerned with her sisters' looks (and meg's SEX LIFE, jesus) that i found it downright disturbing. really, how many times does she bring up meg's boobs? it's okay that she sees herself as the plainest out of all four sisters, that's consistent with who jo is, but did she really need to go into that much detail so often? it's just such an odd choice. then there's beth, who sounded like she was 35 most of the time. it might not have been so bad had meredith not been so... removed from everything, to the point where i just started assuming she was dealing with some kind of mental health problem that just wasn't being spelled out explicitly. which is fine, understandable even given her circumstances, but it does no service to whatever mental health community you're trying to represent if you just allude vaguely to it rather than outright stating it. it's also really annoying and frustrating to the reader to never have it confirmed, and particularly galling as a LW fan because in the original, marmee is practically the epitome of what an amazing mother is supposed to be. but meredith was... barely there. beth seemed like more of a mother figure most of the time, and i feel like that also took away from her relationship with jo, which in the original was so close. heck, even meg and amy's relationship felt more like an informed attribute than a real thing.
speaking of amy, apart from tangentially causing some trouble right at the very end, she was pretty much a non-entity. was it really so difficult to maybe give amy a voice rather than just off-handedly alluding to whatever meg or jo thought might be going on in her life, even if it was just average pre-teen fare? it's important to know how she feels about things because that will define who she is and who she will become in the future, but we never get to really hear HER explain what she's feeling and why. and what the HELL did todd do to john brooke?! like, i get that this book centers around the girls, but there's no need to do john brooke so dirty. i've never been that big of a fan of his as a character, but in the original he was a good man, and a supportive partner, and quite unexpectedly that particular characterization choice really, really bothered me.
i don't know, man. i was so excited to read this thing and my balloon deflated so freaking fast. not that everything in this book was bad-- like i said, there were aspects of it i actually really loved, which is why i'm giving it two stars rather than just one, but after having read the whole thing, this just feels like a story about four random sisters rather than an adaptation of little women-- they just feel like entirely different characters, and i wonder if the author really GETS the original and the progression each character goes through, because there was very little of that here. and that is very disappointing. perhaps that'll just teach me to stay away from books that have "wattpad" stamped on the cover. i need a better modern LW adaptation to cleanse my palate after this, so i really hope my next read will do the trick.
so needless to say, with little women being my favorite book of all time, i was really, REALLY excited to read this book. i felt the LW story is one that lent itself well to a modern twist, particularly given the war setting. but now that i've read it, i find myself just... utterly confounded by this novel.
that's not to say everything in this book was off-putting. i actually really liked how the laurie/jo relationship was handled (for someone who still relives the biggest heartbreak of her life every time she rereads the original LW, it felt like a warm balm upon my soul), and admittedly i started getting a lot more into it around the time mr. spring was revealed to have been injured; i think it did interesting things to the interaction between the girls and especially the way jo reacted to things. that helped a lot. but that was more than halfway into the book and i only got to that point by groaning my way through the slog that was the first half, and if i had been any less stubborn and prideful a person, i would've given up on it way before i reached that point.
what really baffles me is some of the characterization choices she makes from the get-go. meg's entire plot of choosing between two guys was completely insipid to me to the point that i started skimming through every section that even involved shia or john brooke because i just couldn't stomach the forced drama anymore. i kind of get the idea she was trying to get at-- which she really only makes explicit in the VERY LAST CHAPTER, might i add-- of women having the choice of what they want to do with their life, even if that choice ends up being the life of a housewife. that's a fair point to get to, even if it did take too long to get there and then have it come up in a very abrupt manner. what bothers me is that she never even considers the option of what she wants to do for HERSELF rather than just formulating her entire life around a man's choices. you want to be with shia, that's fine, but do YOU want to spend the foreseeable future traveling, meg? you want to be an officer's wife, that's fine, but will YOU feel satisfied giving up a career that you actually seem to like, meg? those were options that were never even considered by her, and add to that the general shallowness of the love triangle, and the whole thing was just starting to give me hives after a while.
jo felt closer to LW!jo, which was good, but then at times she seemed so overly concerned with her sisters' looks (and meg's SEX LIFE, jesus) that i found it downright disturbing. really, how many times does she bring up meg's boobs? it's okay that she sees herself as the plainest out of all four sisters, that's consistent with who jo is, but did she really need to go into that much detail so often? it's just such an odd choice. then there's beth, who sounded like she was 35 most of the time. it might not have been so bad had meredith not been so... removed from everything, to the point where i just started assuming she was dealing with some kind of mental health problem that just wasn't being spelled out explicitly. which is fine, understandable even given her circumstances, but it does no service to whatever mental health community you're trying to represent if you just allude vaguely to it rather than outright stating it. it's also really annoying and frustrating to the reader to never have it confirmed, and particularly galling as a LW fan because in the original, marmee is practically the epitome of what an amazing mother is supposed to be. but meredith was... barely there. beth seemed like more of a mother figure most of the time, and i feel like that also took away from her relationship with jo, which in the original was so close. heck, even meg and amy's relationship felt more like an informed attribute than a real thing.
speaking of amy, apart from tangentially causing some trouble right at the very end, she was pretty much a non-entity. was it really so difficult to maybe give amy a voice rather than just off-handedly alluding to whatever meg or jo thought might be going on in her life, even if it was just average pre-teen fare? it's important to know how she feels about things because that will define who she is and who she will become in the future, but we never get to really hear HER explain what she's feeling and why. and what the HELL did todd do to john brooke?! like, i get that this book centers around the girls, but there's no need to do john brooke so dirty. i've never been that big of a fan of his as a character, but in the original he was a good man, and a supportive partner, and quite unexpectedly that particular characterization choice really, really bothered me.
i don't know, man. i was so excited to read this thing and my balloon deflated so freaking fast. not that everything in this book was bad-- like i said, there were aspects of it i actually really loved, which is why i'm giving it two stars rather than just one, but after having read the whole thing, this just feels like a story about four random sisters rather than an adaptation of little women-- they just feel like entirely different characters, and i wonder if the author really GETS the original and the progression each character goes through, because there was very little of that here. and that is very disappointing. perhaps that'll just teach me to stay away from books that have "wattpad" stamped on the cover. i need a better modern LW adaptation to cleanse my palate after this, so i really hope my next read will do the trick.
Tal y como dice en la contraportada del libro, Sisters es una montaña rusa de emociones, que sube y baja repentinamente todo el rato y la autora siempre te acaba sorprendido.
No esperaba que me gustase tanto y lo he disfrutado muchísimo, además, me he quedado con ganas de leer Mujercitas.
Si que han habido varias cosas que no me gustaron como el final que fue bastante precipitado y el poco protagonismo que se les ofrecen a Beth y a Amy o no saber bien que opinan los padres de las hermanas Spring. Pero por todo lo otro, ha sido una novela que he disfrutado mucho, con la cual me he reído y sonreído como una tonta.
Lo recomiendo mucho!
No esperaba que me gustase tanto y lo he disfrutado muchísimo, además, me he quedado con ganas de leer Mujercitas.
Si que han habido varias cosas que no me gustaron como el final que fue bastante precipitado y el poco protagonismo que se les ofrecen a Beth y a Amy o no saber bien que opinan los padres de las hermanas Spring. Pero por todo lo otro, ha sido una novela que he disfrutado mucho, con la cual me he reído y sonreído como una tonta.
Lo recomiendo mucho!
Estava sem expectativa nenhuma pra esse livro e, no final, acabei super envolvida e amando a história.
“As Garotas Spring” foi a primeira releitura de um livro clássico que eu li e eu adorei, sério. A Jo e o Laurie são simplesmente sensacionais, aveeee amei demais!!!
Esse livro é ótimo e leitura super rápida.
“As Garotas Spring” foi a primeira releitura de um livro clássico que eu li e eu adorei, sério. A Jo e o Laurie são simplesmente sensacionais, aveeee amei demais!!!
Esse livro é ótimo e leitura super rápida.