March in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jun 02, 2017 Astrid Lim rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, romance, tragedy, world-war, america, family, pastiche

It's a nice alternate story of Captain March, the missing father figure in the famous Little Women book. This book covered quite complicated issues like slavery and abolitionist, sometimes a bit too much for me because the tone is so different than the more comfortable Little Women. I do like how Brook trying hard to make more sense of the story with the Little Women hovering in the background, but I found some characters, like Marmee for example, that's pretty much different than the one I reme ...more

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Sep 18, 2013 Nicole marked it as didn-t-finish

Shelves: 2013, audio-book

Brooks is obviously a phenomenal writer, but to an extend she crafted the war scenes a little too well. Listening to her vivid descriptions of men in a battle and the smells of the battlefield hospital was a bit much to be enjoyable. While I'm still somewhat interested about the core of the book and the integration into Little Women, I'm not willing to go through all of his time in battle to get through it. ...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Stacy rated it really liked it

This is a wonderful book. I had to read it for my book club and i didn't think I would love it - but i did. The story is about Mr. March - the father from "Little Women." March is serving as a chaplain the Civil War. The author does a beautiful job of describing the horrors of war but she also describes great beauty. There are lovely characters here and a strong story - i really, really loved it. ...more

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