While I very much enjoyed Little Women and still felt like this book was a good sequel I did feel like there some charm from the first book that was lacking in this.

The first one reminded me very much of spending time with my grandmother, and some of her views of life and the simple happiness that you can find. This had some of those same sentiments but felt like the author might have rushed this a bit. The characters did not have the same fleshed out feeling as the first novel, and in fact I caught myself still not knowing who some of them where. I'm not sure if there was maybe just too many background characters while the first had very little, or if maybe there was going to be more to the book and some things were cut out but I felt like even at the end I found myself asking "who was that one again?"

Also, the death in the last 1/3 of the book seemed unnecessary, kinda like the same formula as her first book while not really delivering in the same heart wrenching way.
Overall I would give this a 3.5 star review. I still had a good time with it and it was still very charming, but I wanted more out of it.