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Little Vampire Women
by
Lynn Messina (Goodreads Author)
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses."
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites.
Marmee has taught them well, and so they l...more
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites.
Marmee has taught them well, and so they l...more
Paperback, 317 pages
Published
May 1st 2010
by HarperTeen
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This is the first vampire book I've read of a literary classic and it was hilarious. If you have read Little Women, you should enjoy it.
This is the same story, but with a few twists. Of course all the Marches are vampires, but true to the original, they are humanitarians. They don't feed on humans. Only on animals. I was wondering how the author was planning to get sickness and death into the story, since vampires can only be killed by beheading and driving a stake through their hearts.
The fun...more
This is the same story, but with a few twists. Of course all the Marches are vampires, but true to the original, they are humanitarians. They don't feed on humans. Only on animals. I was wondering how the author was planning to get sickness and death into the story, since vampires can only be killed by beheading and driving a stake through their hearts.
The fun...more
“‘Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.” Alcott's classic receives the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies treatment—and it's surprisingly effective. The original March family was characterized by their poverty, independence, and firm morals in the face of wealthy neighbors and decadent temptations. The vampire version has the equally poor Marches resisting the urge to dine on humans, instead drinking the blood of rats, beavers, and in Beth's case, her bel...more
Yay, so excited! I haven't received the book yet, just received notice I had won. 10/17/11
Received last night, and already I just love the cover! Have a few to read before I can get to it, but woo-hoo. so excited! 10/27/11
Started yesterday 11/13/11
Finished 11/16/11
Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses."
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since y...more
Received last night, and already I just love the cover! Have a few to read before I can get to it, but woo-hoo. so excited! 10/27/11
Started yesterday 11/13/11
Finished 11/16/11
Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses."
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since y...more
This is Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" with the twist that the characters are vampires. This book follows the original story, but with less details. The Marches are humanitarians who live on animal blood. The vampires convert the humans they love into vampires, with Meg and Amy both doing this. Jo's professor is already a vampire when she meets him. This book is written for young adults and is very easy to read. The problem I had with this book was, they said several times that the vampires...more
I wanted so badly to like this book! But I went into it expecting something that it did not deliver. Had I dropped expectations I would have enjoyed it so much more. However, when I picked this up to read, I was expecting the Little Women story with a few vampires thrown in. I was not given this. I was given a story about the March sisters that LOO SLY followed the Lousia May Alcott story. And I'm using the word loosely as a generous description. This story was all over the place! Characters wer...more
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Will it never end?
I have to come right out and say that this is one book I just couldn't get into enough to finish it. I don't normally give up on what I'm reading but I'm also the kind of person who approaches reading as a stress-free, escapist sort of activity so I have little patience for books I don't enjoy and this is one I didn't enjoy much. To be completely on the fair side, however, I don't know how much I would really enjoy the real Little Women and I have a funny feeling that the issues I had with this...more
Quite a funny twist of a read. I like a good mash-up once and a while and Little vampire women is one of my favorites so far. At some moments the original novel sounded better with the inclusion of the blood sucking women once written up as demure and innocent by Louisa May Alcott. Most of the book was great, some parts were slow and confusing, but eventually sped up to a pace more enjoyable. I would recommend this book to both fans of the classics and to new young adult readers, very fangtastic...more
For me, this is a book that is hard to review. The reason? I didn't particularly like it.
Shifting this classic into a paranormal knock-off just didn't work. I found the references to their state of vampirism very tedious. There were umpteen references to the differences between them and their human counterparts. Their desire for "corpses for Christmas" was nauseating.
The positive spin: it does closely follow the events of the original, just with the vampire twist. Lynn Messina is not a bad autho...more
Shifting this classic into a paranormal knock-off just didn't work. I found the references to their state of vampirism very tedious. There were umpteen references to the differences between them and their human counterparts. Their desire for "corpses for Christmas" was nauseating.
The positive spin: it does closely follow the events of the original, just with the vampire twist. Lynn Messina is not a bad autho...more
I loved the original novel of Louisa May Alcott so when I got this last Christmas and read in the back of the book that it would be hilarious, I expected it to humor me so I read it immediately with excitement leaving the other book I was reading behind. But it let me down.
I expected it would be a rather fun story more so than "Little Women" because I really had fun reading the original version but as I said, it wasn't at all what I had in mind before I read it.
In short, I loved the original ve...more
I expected it would be a rather fun story more so than "Little Women" because I really had fun reading the original version but as I said, it wasn't at all what I had in mind before I read it.
In short, I loved the original ve...more
This fun twist on the classic Little Women has vampires and humans living uneasily together in society. Humanitarian vampires like the Marches try to promote harmony and understanding amongst their human neighbors. Jo is a vampire defender rather than an aspiring writer, and the fight scenes could be edgier, but these are victorian lady vampires after all, and it is still a fun read for those who has a sense of humor about their favorite classic novel being turned into a vampire book.
I am always amazed when an author have to cut and paste an original work that belongs to another writer, you see much of this with Jane Austin redo's and now I guess with Louisa Alcott it is plain to me that readers cannot get enough of her and I certainly understand why; she was brilliant and wonderful all in one breath, but I have to say this book is just another book from a writer trying to capitalize on an idea they didn't create! I would not recommend this book!
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Read few chapters of this book on a half hour flight from Surabaya to Denpasar. I thought the story would continue the original version. But I was totally wrong *and disappointed :( since I am not a big fan of Vampire. The story is re-telling the original version with the main characters are Vampire. Argh... this vampire thing just broke the sweetness and innocence of March girls.
2 stars are for my forever star, the original March girls; not for the vampire girls.
2 stars are for my forever star, the original March girls; not for the vampire girls.
When I first saw this book at the now defunct Borders, I was intrigued. Little Women was always a favorite story of mine and this version turned the March family into vampires. While the altered story was a bit corny and sometimes cheesy, it was very enjoyable to me. I liked the ending, even though I typically knew how the story was going to end, it was definitely a different spin. Not as good as the original Little Women, this one was pretty good. If you enjoy that kind of silliness, then you'l...more
I'm not a big fan of paranormal twists of classics and of vampire novels, but this book wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's been a few years since I read the original, but I think this novel stays pretty accurate with the plot and I enjoyed how Lynn Melissa added her own orginal twist to some parts instead of just throwing in a few vampires here and there. I appreciated the humorous aspect of the mashup, but still, I'm not a fan of these types of books.
You know for the bad rap that the mashup books tend to get, I actually enjoyed this YA one. Though the story is stagnant in some places, overall the vampire aspect of the book does not read like a "re-do"...it reads as if this was the way the story was always suppose to be. Certainly recommend for a read through whether you've read the original story or not....you'll gain a new perspective on a classic novel and still have some fangish fun along the way. Happy reading!
I didn't actually finish this book. If you haven't guessed already, it's a re-telling of Little Women, but with the March sisters as vamps. I know lots of people are into this whole classics-done-with-mythical-characters thing and if you are, I think that's great and you would love this book because it's very well done. For me, Little Women is one of my absolute favorite books of EVER and far too sacred to alter. To each their own.
Honestly, the whole vampire thing was tied up pretty well in this story. There were a couple of parts I didn't like, but on the whole it would have been OK.
It just feels like such a copycat. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the first title to mix classic with ... what would you call it? Pop horror? Anyway. It was funny and a great idea. At first. Too many people try to do it and it loses it's punch.
"It was the height of rudeness to dine on your guests, particularly if they were your social eq...more
It just feels like such a copycat. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the first title to mix classic with ... what would you call it? Pop horror? Anyway. It was funny and a great idea. At first. Too many people try to do it and it loses it's punch.
"It was the height of rudeness to dine on your guests, particularly if they were your social eq...more
"Christmas wont be Christmas without any corpses." The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites. Marmee has taught them well, and so they live by an unprecedented moral code of abstinence . . . from human blood. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy must learn to get along with...more
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Not my favorite book. Yet, I mustn't complain as it is Little Women. As a fan of all things about Louisa May Alcott, I could not resist this book. Rereading Little Women (even with vampires) every couple years is a most splendid, delightful and rewarding way to spend one's time.
Next time, I'll stick with the tried and true Illustrated Classics Edition for young readers.
Next time, I'll stick with the tried and true Illustrated Classics Edition for young readers.
Too funny for words! Although the original iconoclastic "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," lampooned so hysterically by Seth Grahame-Smith, really does set the standard for outright mockery modernization of our beloved classics--which I read aloud in the most upper crust British accent I could muster in between fits of hilarity so violent that I actually fractured a rib--"Little Vampire Women" is well worth the read and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. One can only hope that a similar update of Harr...more
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Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses."
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites. FIC Messina 334364
The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much) longer lives and (much) more ravenous appetites. FIC Messina 334364
As Jo would say "a jolly read". This book is based on "Little Women". The author stuck to the original story with just the needed changes to go along with the fact that the March girls are vampires. There some sections from the original left out that made some of the quotes from the original version a little confusing or unexplained. But as a reader who loves the classics, I found this story quite humorous and enjoyed it very much. I recieved an Advanced Reading Copy for free from Goodreads Firs...more
pardon the pun but the classic and beloved Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been revamped! author Lynn Messina's twist on the lives of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March is amusing and entertaining. the footnotes themselves are hilarious. as much as i liked the original story, i could not help loving this one more.
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Growing up, I never much cared for Little Women, but I thought surely a re imagining with vampires I could get behind. Sadly, I was wrong.
Perhaps it was that the story was just too much like it's original, or that too much was removed in this abridged version, but I just could not fall in love with the characters. It felt as though everything was too rushed to trigger any emotion from me. Oftentimes, I found it farcical, like it was trying to make fun of, rather than be an homage to its source m...more
Perhaps it was that the story was just too much like it's original, or that too much was removed in this abridged version, but I just could not fall in love with the characters. It felt as though everything was too rushed to trigger any emotion from me. Oftentimes, I found it farcical, like it was trying to make fun of, rather than be an homage to its source m...more
Ehhhhhh perhaps I am just too big of a lover of the original to appreciate this. But I feel like it could have been much better done. It felt really forced, especially the whole plot twist causing Beth's death. Also it was hard to buy the Marches as vampires. Better if they were humans and their father was off fighting vampires instead of the Civil War, I THINK.
I think I liked this book nearly as well as I liked the original story, although, the bit about Beth and the kittens was just a bit disturbing to me. I still chuckle over the opening line, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses." Maybe I'm just very, very warped.
I'm giving this 3.5 stars to be exact.
It turned out better than I expected but the last chapter's so weird, I haven't decided if it's a good or bad kind of weird.
Just a few cents:
- Jo and Laurie, wtf!
- Just how can two people fall in love in a span of, say, two months, when they have closely known each other beforehand for 5 years? *cough* Amy & Laurie *cough* Sorry, I can't comprehend.
- Mr. Bhaer, I think you're a bit too old for my darling Jo. Like, you know, grandfather-old. :|
- I firmly...more
It turned out better than I expected but the last chapter's so weird, I haven't decided if it's a good or bad kind of weird.
Just a few cents:
- Jo and Laurie, wtf!
- Just how can two people fall in love in a span of, say, two months, when they have closely known each other beforehand for 5 years? *cough* Amy & Laurie *cough* Sorry, I can't comprehend.
- Mr. Bhaer, I think you're a bit too old for my darling Jo. Like, you know, grandfather-old. :|
- I firmly...more
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Lynn Messina grew up on Long Island and studied English at Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked at The Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media), TV Guide, In Style, Rolling Stone, Fitness, Self and a bunch of wonderful magazines that have long since disappeared. She mourns the death of print journalism in New York City, where she lives with her husband and tw...more
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