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    <body><![CDATA[I actually liked Alcott's Rose series much better than the Little Women series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made a deep impression on my as a child and it was one of the only books that made me cry as a child. This is the sequal to, &quot;Eight Cousins&quot;. As an adult, I am sure I would find it over sentimental, but, I loved it so as a child, that I must still recommend it.  Sweet and endeari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53769373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For many years (until I read Jane Eyre the second time), this was my absolute favorite book.  It is perhaps the reason I love 'nerds.'  While many women grew up loving Mr. Darcy, I grew up loving Mac.  He was my ideal love interest.  He suffered long and noblely for love of Rose and I admired that w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29225919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Insipid fluff trying to pass itself off as sweet sentimentality.<br/><br/>I like most of Alcott's other works, but this one..sorry..it sucks. The only thing that kept me turning the pages was the desperate thought that..surely it'd improve. Sadly, as it progresses, it wilts further and further.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53699624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really excited to find this book at a used bookstore - my grandmother bought me Eight Cousins, and I'd been waiting to read its sequel.  This book focuses on the Campbell family after Rose's return from sailing around the world with her uncle and Phebe.  Upon her return, she is twenty years ol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50774345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started to read this book, but about 5 pages in I was already bored and confused with keeping the characters straight. So I decided to dump it. I love Louisa May Alcott, but at this point if a book doesn't REALLY catch my interest, I have plenty more on my list of to-reads.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sequel to Eight Cousins, I found that this was not as good as the first.  Of course, this review should be taken with a grain of salt.  I read Eight Cousins when I was a girl and Rose in Bloom when I was a teen.  Still, this would be a good read for an older child.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[*sigh* I gave this book a one not because it was poorly written but from sheer personal bias--Charlie is my ABSOLUTE favorite character, so yeah...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book may almost be a 4-star but there were enough drawbacks to keep it at a 3.  It was a slow moving book but Louisa May Alcott acknowledges that it was not meant to be anything big.  Just mainly a continuation of the story from Eight Cousins.  I really liked the character Rose and the morals i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62969598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No thanks. Alcott at her most idealistic and sentimental. No real characters here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this as much as Eight Cousins - it's the sequel, so you must read both.  Here are some quotes I liked:  p. 9-10, a parent's perspective on releasing their grown child, &quot;I've done my best to fit Rose for what may come, as far as I can foresee it; but now she must stand alone, and all my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24045821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[       This is my favorite of Louisa May Alcott’s many novels. This book, the sequel to Eight Cousins, surpassed it’s forerunner in wit, character studies, contrasts , and over-all enjoyableness. The reader is reintroduced into the realm of Rose Campbell, a rich, young orphan, and her seven boy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63061550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sweet, old fashioned love story.  The vocabulary and style of speech is out of date and somewhat hard in places, but the main character is a well mannered, young woman with the best intentions and strong morals.  I thoroughly enjoyed the passages in which Rose turns events that would infuriated mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48694177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love parts of this book. I remember reading it when I was really young, my sister read it to me, and I absolutely LOVED Charlie, and really enjoyed the book. Last month I read it again, and it was LAME. The main character was dripping with sappy feminism. She is just a real idiot through the whole...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75033624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the sequel to Eight Cousins, and it surpasses the first book in nearly every way.  The writing is less trite, the characters are more human, the story has more depth and the ending is more satisfying.  Alcott's characters are too good to be true in the first book;  in this one, they act...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47211022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may have liked this book more if I had read it instead of listening to it.  It was okay, but not in my top ten by any means.  It is a sequel to Eight Cousins, and it was fun to see how the characters continued to change and grow and what happens to them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is there anything as romantic as unrequited love (as long as you are not the one suffering from being unrequited, of course)? Perfect choice for a naive reader first venturing into the genre of romance... ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Killing off Charlie really disturbed me when I read this ( I must have been about 10 or so). I couldn't get over it, it was such a callous move. I've since re-read it and I still feel the same way. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As much as I loved this book in my childhood it turned out to be a disappointment this time. Eight cousins was still a nice story read in adulthood, but this book was a bit too heavy handed in its preaching and too much telling and too little action.]]></body>
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