By: Anna Todd
Genres: Women's Fiction Contemporary | Romance | Multicultural Romance
Posted: December 22, 2017
REVIEW: A nice, contemporary retelling of a beloved classic! THE SPRING GIRLS by Anna Todd brings Little Women into the 21st century. As with the novel that inspired it, sisterhood is the driving force throughout the entire novel. It's obvious, even when they are bickering or disappointed, this family will fight for each other's safety and happiness. There are a few things that didn't quite update well—Meg as promiscuous rather than prim, and Meredith as slowly unraveling rather than calm and collected. Additionally, Amy didn't have much to do until the end of the book, and her revelations didn't quite work in the scope of the story. However, Jo's desire to get out of their small town while grappling with her budding relationship with Laurie is just as intriguing as any you'd find in a successful YA novel, and Beth as a painfully shy introvert works well in this retelling. Overall, THE SPRING GIRLS is a warm, funny, exciting updated version that invokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcott's original.
Book Summary
The Spring Girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same. Struggling to build lives they can be proud of and that will lift them out of their humble station in life, one year will determine all that their futures can become.
The oldest, Meg, will be an officer’s wife and enter military society like so many of the women she admires. If her passion—and her reputation—don’t derail her.
Beth, the workhorse of the family, is afraid to leave the house, is afraid she’ll never figure out who she really is.
Jo just wants out. Wishing she could skip to graduation, she dreams of a life in New York City and a career in journalism where she can impact the world. Nothing can stop her—not even love.
And Amy, the youngest, is watching all her sisters, learning from how they handle themselves. For better or worse.
With plenty of sass, romance, and drama, The Spring Girls revisits Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, and brings its themes of love, war, class, adolescence, and family into the language of the twenty-first century.
by: Anna Todd
Gallery Books
January 1, 2018
On Sale: January 2, 2018
Featuring: Meg; Jo; Beth
416 pages
ISBN: 1501130714
EAN: 9781501130717
Kindle: B074ZQ47DV
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