Belittled Women, Amanda Sellet
Belittled Women, Amanda Sellet
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Belittled Women

Author: Amanda Sellet

Narrator: Rebecca Mozo

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 11/29/2022

Synopsis

Sharp and subversive, this delightfully messy YA rom-com offers a sly wink to the classic Little Women, as teenage Jo Porter rebels against living in the shadow of her literary namesake.Lit’s about to hit the fan. Jo Porter has had enough Little Women to last a lifetime. As if being named after the sappiest family in literature wasn’t sufficiently humiliating, Jo’s mom, ahem Marmee, leveled up her Alcott obsession by turning their rambling old house into a sad-sack tourist attraction.Now Jo, along with her siblings, Meg and Bethamy (yes, that’s two March sisters in one), spends all summer acting out sentimental moments at Little Women Live!, where she can feel her soul slowly dying.So when a famed photojournalist arrives to document the show, Jo seizes on the glimpse of another life: artsy, worldly, and fast-paced. It doesn’t hurt that the reporter’s teenage son is also eager to get up close and personal with Jo—to the annoyance of her best friend, aka the boy next door (who is definitely not called Laurie). All Jo wants is for someone to see the person behind the prickliness and pinafores.But when she gets a little too real about her frustration with the family biz, Jo will have to make peace with kitsch and kin before their livelihood suffers a fate worse than Beth.

About Amanda Sellet

Amanda Sellet is fond of silly jokes, large bodies of water, dessert at least once a day, and stories of all kinds. A former journalist, Amanda is the author of By the Book: A Novel of Prose and Cons. She currently lives in Kansas with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aarya on October 22, 2023

For the first 80%, the heroine’s mom and sisters treat her like crap. Then for a couple chapters, non-family members treat the heroine like crap. Then our intrepid heroine runs home into the loving embrace of her family, where no apologies or meaningful promises for changes are made. A complete wast......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 17, 2022

Full of back and forth banter, complicated family dynamics and fighting to find yourself, this was a hilarious and romantic YA contemporary. I struggled with pacing in the middle of the story, but the dialogue and slow burn romance more than make up for a slightly slow middle. Amanda Sellet is an au......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on March 24, 2023

If you are looking for a book that will make you laugh from the beginning to the end, then this book is for you. But make no mistake, there are plenty of important life lessons inside. Belittled Women by Amanda Sellet is a delightful parody on the original Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Set in m......more

Goodreads review by Patty (IheartYA311) on June 07, 2023

This was cute but not memorable. It felt superficial, lacking substance. The banter was sometimes entertaining but mostly useless. A more complex story would have made it more enjoyable. The author did a good job of making the main character unlikable. I kept waiting for the build up to a pivotal mo......more

Goodreads review by Ardie on August 07, 2022

I read Little Women many years ago and loved it…except for the ending. I hated that! So, I was excited to see what Amanda Sellet would do with this book that I loved and hated so much. Thank you, Sellet, for giving me the ending I wished for in the original story. Belittled Women is not necessarily a......more

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