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Little Vampire Women

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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.

For those who fear that Messina has made a mockery of LITTLE WOMEN, I assure you that she has not. The story is still there, the Marches are the same people with the same values...sure, they're vampires, but vampires with morals.

Throughout this version, I wish I had an original nearby to compare and contrast. Not having read the original in such a long time, I constantly wondered what elements Messina created and what were already there to begin with.

And although this is published by Harper Teen, I'm not embarrassed to say that I am far from being a teenager.

Little Women Vampire is quite simply a delightful read.

This novel mashes an abridged Signature Classics - Little Women (Signature Classic Series) with an in-vogue vampire slant. The Marches of this tale are all vampires, though the well-to-do Laurence neighbors are not.

I imagine that Lynn Messina read the original "Little Women" as a girl (as I did myself, many times), because she's true to the spirit of the original. I'm so familiar with the story that I can open the book at any point and relocate myself within it instantly. So the idea of a take-off pastiche was repellent, until I read the opening lines, "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any corpses,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug." The March girls are now part of a "humanitarian" vampire family that doesn't feed on humans, which is pretty funny if you know about Bronson Alcott's dietary ideas about fruitarianism for his family (and the nice dinners for himself in society). Vampires and humans live uneasily in society, but humanitarian vampires such as the Marches do what they can to promote harmony and understanding amongst their human neighbors.

Rather than being an aspiring writer, in "Little Vampire Women," Jo is an aspiring vampire defender. There's a whole new plot line, with Jo attempting to find out who is causing a rash of vampire illnesses, which freshens the familiar story for old readers. If you want to be struck anew with Meg's romance, or grieve over Beth's long illness, this is the book to do it, since we never know just what Lynn Messina is going to do to the family next.

The vampire fighting is insufficient to carry this pastiche on its own, however, and even as a pacifist I found myself wanting more action. So I believe this spin-off will appeal more to those of us with a modern sensibility who truly loved Signature Classics - Little Women (Signature Classic Series) in our girlhood.

I do wish there'd been more footnotes. The current ones are a hoot, with references to vampire literature and the growing social acceptance of them in polite human society.

This is a good idea because contemporary fiction trends have moved toward the supernatural and paranormal as well as the occult. The modern American audience has decided to embrace vampires in the same way that they embraced ghosts in the early 90's and late 80's with R.L. Stein and Steven King. Now with the new fad, it seems to be the British novel, seen as old-fashioned and hard to read, going head to head with the new American teen novel that is battling to return to prominence in popular culture. It seems that the new American reader does not like little women as much as they liked what it represents, a strong female protagonist.

I really enjoyed this book. It stayed true to the style of the original and the vampire storyline was highly entertaining! If you enjoyed this book I would also recommend Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. They were both excellent retellings as well.

I love this book! It contains every bit of the fun of Louisa May Alcott's immortal girl-power classic, except this time the March girls have...well, immortal powers. They should, anyway, though vampire hunters have unleashed a plague on the undead community that endangers poor, dear Amy. The addition of vampires to Little Women allows readers the chance to find out whether Theodore "Laurie" Laurence would, in fact, make good vampire bait.

I've read Little Women and now I've read little vampire women. The book was close enought to see the original in it but changed enough to make it really enjoyable.Little Vampire Women I gave it 3 because it took a lot of thought to make it this good, but not enough imagation to be a whole new book.

I was really hoping it would be better. There are some parts that are humorous, but the creativity is just not great. The potential is better than the finished product.

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 First Reads.

I have read the book little vampire women and I must say it was not good at all. The characters were very dull and the story was slow. It was hard to follow once the story picked up and if I could go back in time I wouldn't have wasted my money on it.