Little Women is one of my childhood favorites, and I know many parts by heart to this day. I picked this up figuring that it would be a fun reread of Little Women is one of my childhood favorites, and I know many parts by heart to this day. I picked this up figuring that it would be a fun reread of an old favorite.
And in many ways, it was. It was nice to be back with the March family and experience their lives again. But I was hoping that the mermaid-ness would add a new dimension, and I can’t say that it did. It seemed more that many words were just changed without adding anything new (hair became tails, come home became swim home, money became sand dollars, etc.). And my brain kept stopping in the middle of passages wanting just, like, more information: how does the money system work, what is cake like under water, etc.
I wish there had been something else to this instead of what felt like a fine and replace to add mermaid-y words.
Thank you to NetGalley and Rockwater Press!...more