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A review by akookieforyou
Jo & Laurie by Melissa de la Cruz, Margaret Stohl
4.0
*4.5*
"It would be her honor and her pleasure to go down with this particular ship. They could be dashed together upon the rocks, sink together to the ocean floor. Only blurry, ink-splotched pages to mark their watery grave.
Because it was always our story.
It just never had the right ending."
This book made my heart feel so full, with happiness and sadness alike, and I even cried (multiple times).
It may not always be the popular opinion, but I love Laurie and Jo together, they're so perfect for one another, truly they feel like two halves of one whole. I was completely dissatisfied with the ending of Little Women (the movie, I couldn't quite bring myself to read the novel after I finished it), so to me, this is how it should've ended. I hope we can see even more retellings with this type of treatment towards characters in the future. We've seen Cinderella end up with a woman, Jo choose Laurie, Romeo and Juliet live, what's next? I'm excited to find out.
"It would be her honor and her pleasure to go down with this particular ship. They could be dashed together upon the rocks, sink together to the ocean floor. Only blurry, ink-splotched pages to mark their watery grave.
Because it was always our story.
It just never had the right ending."
This book made my heart feel so full, with happiness and sadness alike, and I even cried (multiple times).
It may not always be the popular opinion, but I love Laurie and Jo together, they're so perfect for one another, truly they feel like two halves of one whole. I was completely dissatisfied with the ending of Little Women (the movie, I couldn't quite bring myself to read the novel after I finished it), so to me, this is how it should've ended. I hope we can see even more retellings with this type of treatment towards characters in the future. We've seen Cinderella end up with a woman, Jo choose Laurie, Romeo and Juliet live, what's next? I'm excited to find out.