A review by sabregirl
Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott

3.0

I have a little memory of trying to read [b:Little Women|1934|Little Women|Louisa May Alcott|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255652835s/1934.jpg|3244642] when I was in elementary school and I don't remember much but Lousia's simplistic style and I do like how that's how it was in this book too especially since it was written years before. The book did get easily confusing when she was jumping back and forth between Coventry's first name and his surname. It took a few reads of the same paragraphs to figure out who she was talking about and it just wasn't some new person who had just come into the book. The beginning of the book really lacked interest to me. After Jean first revealed herself I was interested but there wasn't all that much to keep my interest until later on in the novella where things were falling into place. It was easy to grow frustrated with the males in this book, but it's to be expected when in the end it's all about a womens persuation over men. Though I found it odd that only two people were able to see through her, a lot of her 'on the sly' facial movements or actions could've been really seen through. Though her actress background proved good. The ending I didn't really like, there wasn't much of a resolution after all of this build up for the revealing. Nothing was settled and I would've much liked to have seen someone rip the wig off of her head since it was stated in one of the letters she was wearing one.