As historical fiction, this was okay. Not the best I've read, but certainly not the worst. I like Little Women just fine, but I'm not a superfan, so I guess that works in my favor here. From the reviews I've seen, it appears that most LW fans don't appreciate the revisit of the LW story from Mr. March's point of view. I guess the thing I liked best about reading this is knowing that Mr. March in LW, and therefore Mr. March in March, was based on Louisa May Alcott's real life father Bronson. I read Eve LaPlante's nonfiction Marmee and Louisa not too long ago and loved it, while simultaneously loathing Bronson Alcott as a selfish, naive, hopeless dreamer who let his family freeze and starve rather than adapt to the real world. Being able to compare the real-life Alcott with the fictionalized, less-extreme March was a pretty cool exercise. Otherwise, it was a good book to pass a couple of days, but I doubt much of it will stick with me. 
 2016 reading challenge: a Pulitzer Prize winner