at first i was a little disturbed that am reading a book about jo march and there is no enough account on her and even more disturbed by the fact that she refers to jo as mrs. bhaer but then i learned to love the young characters and wait for their adventures and accept the new role of jo as a grown mother..... but still i enjoyed enormously the little glimses of old jo and laurie in between the pages......and as the pages turned i couldnt stop and i wasnt sure if i could ever read another book that will make me that happy and contended for no matter what jo will always be my best friend