I love a good parody or an updating of a favorite classic, but LITTLE VAMPIRE WOMEN is neither. Aside from a few funny lines ("Christmas won't be Christmas without corpses"), this book seems more plagiarism than parody. It doesn't attempt to show the March girls as vampires, with all the complications that would involve; it merely SAYS the March girls are vampires, but since they have sworn off human blood, they pose no danger to anyone and live exactly as the Marches do in LITTLE WOMEN. The girls age (albeit at a slower rate than humans); Beth dies of a wasting disease (not even a stake to the heart); and long passages are lifted verbatim from LITTLE WOMEN. If you like the current trend of infusing classics with the supernatural, read LITTLE WOMEN AND WEREWOLVES; at least, in the latter, a parallel is drawn between prejudice against werewolves and society's persecution of the lower classes, and a few completely new scenes are inserted to explain & explore the werewolf angle. But LITTLE VAMPIRE WOMEN adds nothing of merit to Alcott's tale. It left me feeling as if an incompetent editor had needlessly butchered a perfectly good story.Read full review
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