A review by bookishrealm
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero

4.0

I would take my review with a grain of salt because I actually haven't read Little Women; therefore, my analysis of this is somewhat self contained.

Me, Jo, Beth, and Amy is the first in the Classic Graphic Remix series and is clearly a re-telling of Little Women. The story focuses on a series of different topics including race, blending families, dating, grief/illness, coming out, deployment, and more.

The formatting of this one was interesting. It was a mix of emails, journal entries, and the traditional graphic novel format. This, in my opinion, made the reading experience more immersive and gave readers the opportunity to get to know each one of the girls on a more personal level. I really enjoyed the relationship dynamics between the sisters. They fought, loved, and supported each other in realistic ways that made them feel like well-developed/well-rounded characters. One of the down sides to this particular story is the lack of complexity. It focuses on tough topics, but provides extremely simplistic resolutions to each one of those issues. This didn't necessarily take away from my reading experience; however, I was hoping that Terciero would give us a little more discussion/navigation when those topics came up.

Overall, I thought that this was a fun graphic novel with amazing artwork. While I can't speak to how well the story captured the original work, I appreciated the story as a whole and I'm looking forward to picking up the next in this series.