This review was first posted at http://www.rubysreads.com. 
 I DNF'd Little Women and Me. I kind of think I shouldn't have read it considering that The Twin's Daughter was a mediocre for me. I was, however, enticed by the prospect of a different ending to Little Women. I mean, are there people out there that don't think Jo and Laurie should have ended up together? Or that don't go "Amy!" (in the style of Jerry Seinfeld saying "Newman!") every time they consider the book's ending. I guess that, given such a reaction to the original story, I hardly thought Little Women and Me could irritate me more. However...I didn't even make it to the end. Why? Three little words: It was boring. 
 The story begins in the present tense, with Emily, the MC, facing your typical teenage issues--annoying siblings and crushes that don't realize you exist--but quickly gets to the action of the story. Which is: Emily traveling into Little Women. Let the yawning commence. From that time on, Emily is immersed in the dreary domestic life of Civil War New England. Probably true to life--but that doesn't mean it makes for interesting reading. Also, it took forever for Laurie to actually enter the story. Innumerable pages were spent on Emily's integration into the March family, on the fact that Jo's awesomeness in book form is annoying in person, how Meg is stiflingly principled, Beth is so sweet you feel awful having any negative thoughts about her, and Amy is terribly vain. Not to mention that Marmy is so intent on giving to the needy that she doesn't recall that charity begins at home. 
 The charm (and joy) of retelling classics is that it's (in theory) bringing new life to an ageless tale. Little Women and Me did not do this. It was a boring retread that utterly failed to hold my interest. To be fair, I'm sure this was, in part, due to the fact that the character was a 14 year old, which made the tone more Middle Grade than Teen. I did peek at the end, but it wasn't enough to make me want to go back and read the intervening pages. It's too bad. Little Women is definitely a book with an ending I'd like to see retold.