I'll go ahead and give this one billion star. I love Little Women - it's one of my favorite books - and this new retelling is full of the diversity, honesty, and real-world authenticity that the first one wasn't necessarily *lacking* (except diversity, that was totally non existent) but wasn't rich with either. I loved this. Highly recommend.

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As a Black woman whose favorite book growing up was Little Women, I was so excited about this book. I gave it my normal three chapters and as much as I wanted to, I just could not get into this. Possibly a good story, but I couldn’t help comparing it to the original.