When Beth March is found dead in the woods on New Year’s Day, her sisters vow to uncover her murderer.
Suspects abound. There’s the neighbor who has feelings for not one but two of the girls. Meg’s manipulative best friend. Amy’s flirtatious mentor. And Beth’s lionhearted first love. But it doesn’t take the surviving sisters much digging to uncover motives each one of the March girls had for doing the unthinkable.
Jo, an aspiring author with a huge following on social media, would do anything to hook readers. Would she kill her sister for the story? Amy dreams of studying art in Europe, but she’ll need money from her aunt—money that’s always been earmarked for Beth. And Meg wouldn’t dream of hurting her sister…but her boyfriend might have, and she’ll protect him at all costs.
Despite the growing suspicion within the family, it’s hard to know for sure if the crime was committed by someone close to home. After all, the March sisters were dragged into the spotlight months ago when their father published a controversial bestseller about his own daughters. Beth could have been killed by anyone.
Beth’s perspective told in flashback unfolds next to Meg, Jo, and Amy’s increasingly fraught investigation as the tragedy threatens to rip the Marches apart.
"At first it's like a poem that doesn't make sense until you've read it a few times. Beth is lying in the snow. And the snow is red. And the red isn't just pooled around her but seeping from her. And her eyes are open, but behind them, she's gone."
I am a sucker for a reimagining of a classic, and this one is an absolute killer. A beautiful revisiting of Little Women, taking an iconic piece of work and giving new voices to the women held within the pages. In this modern, murder-mystery adaptation, we see the March sisters in a brand new light, delving into new aspects of their personalities and relationships while still keeping something very authentic and honest to their original lives.
We spend time with all of the sisters as we're thrown right into the aftermath of Beths' death, moving between their perspectives and times before and after, even letting us into Beths life before it ends.
Each chapter absolutely flew by in a dreamy, readable prose with the perfect mixture of modernity and poetic writing to create something that sits in that strange middle ground of familiarity and suspicion.
This is exactly the kind of book you won't want to leave in the freezer because it will make you feel things - fear, suspicion, sisterhood, love and finding purpose in life.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
- I received a reviewers copy of this title - thank you to the IBT team for inviting me to take part in this tour.
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