Leave It to the March Sisters
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
This modern take on Little Women features “Bronte brooding and rom-com banter”—a classic romance with a contemporary twist (Jenny Holiday, USA Today bestselling author).
When it comes to disastrous relationships, English professor Amy Marsden has pretty much seen everything. From Banana Brad (who had a thing for fruit costumes) to her latest disappointment, Derek (undiscovered artist with a penchant for tighty-whities and their perky pizza delivery driver), it’s been an endless adventure of oddballs, jerks, and some terrible lapses in judgment. Which is exactly how Amy has ended up living in a house with the guy she’s been half in love with since she was a kid....
Theo Sinclair has been her sister Jo’s best friend—and a commitment phobe—for as long as Amy can remember. And aside from one hot and heavy make-out session, she’s managed to ignore her feelings for Theo and successfully avoid adding another entry in her What-was-I-thinking list. Yet now that they’re living under the same roof, Amy and Theo are sharing everything from Cheetos and smoothies to their family drama, past trauma, and an attraction that Amy begins to think might not be one-sided. Could Theo really have feelings for her—or is Amy just setting herself up for another disaster?
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Sereno revisits the small college town she introduced in Blame It on the Brontës for a witty riff on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Sereno's take on the classic keeps the spotlight on Amy, chair of the English department at Southern Illinois College, rather than her sister Jo, a Seattle high school teacher, or Meg, who, in this telling, is their mother. (There's no Beth in sight.) Amy and med school dropout Theo Sinclair, her childhood friend and first crush, had a major falling-out years before the start of the book, but when Amy's deadbeat boyfriend kicks her out, Amy has nowhere else to turn and she and Theo wind up as roommates. The pair reconcile—and even flirt—but Amy's convinced that Theo is hung up on Jo and will never think of her the same way. Sereno handles her characters' transition from friends to lovers with grace and includes just enough echoes of Alcott's original to enchant Little Women aficionados while keeping them guessing. Cameos from the previous books' leads are an extra treat for returning readers. Sereno's fans will be pleased.
