Louisa May Alcott

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

Eight Cousins

or The Aunt-Hill (Puffin Classics)

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5 ★ - (adored, absolute favorite)

I went through a phase of reading first L. M. Montgomery's and then Louisa May Alcott's books back to back and thankfully my mom stopped me before I read everything, haha! When I was reading a lot of Alcott I of course picked up Eight Cousins at the suggestion of my mother who said she'd liked it. I ADORED IT. So much that it almost ties with Little Women. - Full review to come. 12/21/23

Christine

August 2022: This book is unironically literally killing meWHAT is GOING ON i forgot how much of a moralistic book this was. but I'm not mad about that it's just really funny coming off of those detested books Aunt Jessie refused to let her kids read to this. 
Even better: the wholehearted hatred of corsets. 
"I do hate all these inventions of strong-minded women" thanks AUnt Clara no one cares
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??? 2017 or something?? lol I don't remember I was kind of a pick-me girl for a while this is embarrassing and cringe so i'm spoilering it

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I read this several years ago on my kindle
read the sequel
forgot about it
remembered it again last night
and stayed up till 1:30 reading this and the sequel
I swear it's such a good book xD I can literally relate to Rose bc most of my friends are boys xDD (hide spoiler)]
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June 2020: ... this is q frankly just a bunch of ""life lessons"" written into a book. Am I surprised? No, not really, just mildly amused. It's basically just... the model girl doing everything perfectly. Still, it's Alcott; it was written in another time altogether, and again it holds a lot of memories for me.

Debbie

Oh I love Louisa May Alcott's books. So classic.

Monirah

A story about bettering oneself, both in terms of physical health and in spirit, and involving virtue, self-sacrifice, and being considerate. 

I had read Rose in Bloom many years back and thought it high-time I read its predecessor. Now done, I can say that I enjoyed the wholesome quality of most of the characters, their interactions, and their closeness as a large family. This is definitely a cozy read.

However, I would have enjoyed this study of bettering one's character more had it been folded into another topic rather than it being the sole subject. Because of this, some might find the story to be a bit preachy. While some scrapes that Rose gets into remain relevant today, some of the sentiments expressed in the novel might come off as old-fashioned. Personally, I don't mind as it is to be expected, and I simply take it as an opportunity to study the times in which the story takes place. Speaking of which, I was pleasantly surprised to see an admonition of smoking in a novel originally published in 1875.

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Eight Cousins (Complete and Unabridged Classics)

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Danbee Kim

Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875) is Alcott's amusing tale presenting story of a wealthy but lonely and unhealthy girl who has recently lost her parents and arrived to stay with her unmarried aunts. The story unfolds after the arrival of her new guardian and his realistic ideas on bringing up a little child, which give birth to a new environment for little Rose.

Eight Cousins

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