The artwork is beautiful, and I love how each girl has their own sense of style. Now, the story is very tumblr-ish. Depending on who you are that's either a positive or negative. It just felt too heavy-handed or preachy often; absolutely no subtlety. This modern retelling tackles bullying, interracial families, and coming out and the 4th-wall is broken at the end. I think this retelling's strength is in the diversity and the new changes made, but the characters felt flat. And Jo was too annoying.

I read Little Women a long, long time ago like when I was like 10 or 11 (I remember a librarian asking if I was old enough to enjoy it). I don't remember a lot, but Amy falling through the frozen ice and Laurence and Jo stand out. MAJOR SPOILER:

Um... It's nice that this retelling kept things lighthearted with a happy ending, but Beth dying was a major plot point (so major that I remember that even after all these years). So... why was she kept alive? Because they didn't venture out to include that, I can only imagine how the story would have ended. I guess the book was already covering so many other relevant things there wasn't room to tackle grief.