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I really wanted to like this book because 1. I loved the book Little Women as a kids and 2. I've liked most of what Geraldine Brooks has written. However, I did not like this book. I wished she had spent more time on him meeting Marmee and living with his girls becfore the war etc...The war parts itself were strange. I liked the character of Grace but it felt so contrived that he met her later in the hospital. I wanted more of his friendship with Emerson and Throeau. I liked that he was flawed and wasn't the perfect husband or father but I felt like she broke him a bit too much. I always understood that he was wounded during a battle not sent away to some run down plantation place. I just thought that whole instance was strange. I do appreciate that she used Alcott's father's writings and based March on him. I don't think the book turned out very well even though it had all the makings of being great.