Helpful Score: 1
The story was a good Civil War Story about an abolishionist chaplain in the Civil War.
The writing was good.
For me it was a terrible dissapointment because this Mr March was not who I imagened raised Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy. And the characterization of Marmee was significantly flawed too.
Once I just read it not as an extention of the Little Women characters it was good. But as long as I though it as the parents of them it was frustrating and felt very inaccurate.
The afterword explained that the author based it on Louisa May Alcott's father . . . since she based the Little Women characters on herself and her sisters. He was an abolitionist, vegitarian and friends with the famous people mentioned in the book. But he was not a chaplain nor did he go off to war.
So its worth reading if you don't connect it to the original book.
The writing was good.
For me it was a terrible dissapointment because this Mr March was not who I imagened raised Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy. And the characterization of Marmee was significantly flawed too.
Once I just read it not as an extention of the Little Women characters it was good. But as long as I though it as the parents of them it was frustrating and felt very inaccurate.
The afterword explained that the author based it on Louisa May Alcott's father . . . since she based the Little Women characters on herself and her sisters. He was an abolitionist, vegitarian and friends with the famous people mentioned in the book. But he was not a chaplain nor did he go off to war.
So its worth reading if you don't connect it to the original book.
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