This is very much a character driven novel that acts as the ultimate cozy read. There are great character descriptions and development through the wide-sweeping timeline of the plot. It is sweet, cute, and full of emotional moments of various kinds. It is a very long classic, but still endearing and begs to have it's time taken.

Personal reading note:
I feel absolutely horrible for Laurie throughout the entirety of the novel and may have actually liked him more than any of the four March sisters. And when it comes to the sisters, Amy was my least favorite by far. I found her pretentious, snobby, and just a whiny simpleton. She drove me nuts a good majority of the time. It had to be said.