A Long Fatal Love Chase has a true obsessed villian, a heroine on the run from him and a man she loves but can never have. For fans of Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, this book should be read and kept on your keeper shelf. Rosamond our heroine wants adventure and to live life. She is bored nd borderlined depressed. She thinks her savior comes to her as an old friend of her grandfather's. Philip marries Rose and whisks her away. Things seem to be perfect in their marriage. Philip and Rose have an...

Louisa May Alcott has always been one of my favorite authors, but in A Long Fatal Love Chase we are introduced to a completely new Alcott writing style. She did not publish this book, which was written for magazine serialization, probably because it was considered too scandalous during her lifetime. This book is a romantic thriller that addresses women's issues important to Alcott. I found myself wondering if this was the kind of book Jo March might have written since it has all the elements of

So you probably didn't know this, but Louisa May Alcott of Little Women fame also wrote a sensual villain romantic horror story of a woman fleeing from her obsessive and psychotic stalker.So obviously you know I'm going to read it. 😈

↠ 3 stars

This book is very much like what Little Women's Jo (the character most like Alcott herself) would have written. Her phrasing at times is overly dramatized, much as her original "sensationalized" stories may have been. The style is similar to her other book The Inheritance. What I really loved about this book was the timeless theme of obsessive love which isn't really love at all, but a distorted sense of posession/ownership of another human being. Tempest's relentless pursuit of Rosamond is clas...

If you've ever wondered what Jane Eyre would be like if it was written by the author of 50 Shades of Grey while high on bath salts, well, LOOK NO FURTHER. The book jacket of my version of this travesty of plot and character development is splashed with "a newly discovered, previously lost novel from the author of Little Women!" Well, let me stop you right now, because this book has about as much in common with Little Women as it does with a kumquat. Also, maybe it was "a lost novel" for a reason...

This is quite possibly one of the COOLEST finds I have found in a bookstore (shout out to Pioneer Book, you guys rock). Seriously, it's called "A Long Fatal Love Chase" and just look at that cover. And it's written by our very own Louisa May Alcott. I could not wait to read this book, and man what a ride.Ok first the back story is important here. So Louisa wrote this book right after she'd had a crazy year abroad in Europe and she needed money for her fam bam. The publisher told her to write som...

I had heard of the humorous over-sensationalism of this book for years, and it did not disappoint. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger, and even the ending was a bit of a surprise. An amusing read if you’re in the mood for a fluffy should-be classic.

A Long Fatal Love Chase -- this is a true gothic story and while I respect various opinions that it is a stalker book, a statement for feminism and a tale of escape from abuse, to me this book is a dark romance. Tempest could be an early prototype for Anne Stuart's H's and I have wanted to ask her if she ever read this book.The story is an interesting juxtaposition between innocence and carnality and has a lot of duality. The very name Rosamond has dual meanings -- it can mean either "pure rose"...

I had a really hard time with this book because the antagonist in the story is just horribly manipulative, controlling, and scary. For the first almost 3/4 of the book, I felt like I just had to endure Tempest's evil nature. Having said that, it did keep me reading in hopes to find some resolution and peace for Rosamond in the end. Well, peace of some degree came for a time in the form of a dear, attentive, true friend, Ignatius the priest. I loved watching this relationship form with he and Ros...

I loved reading this book! Louisa May Alcott was ahead of her time writing this novel, it's a shame that it wasn't published during her lifetime. This book tells the story of Rosamond Vivian and her unfortunate time being stalked by her former lover, Philip Tempest. Rosamond constantly tries to evade Philip and his servants and hopes to one day be able to regain her freedom. It was very gripping and I just had to know how it ended (and most of the chapters ended on a cliffhanger)! Check this boo...

I was reading Little Women in the school library one ever so wintery day and it was ever so fun to pretend I was just making fun of it. The movies are so stupid. It seems like someone is running out with some big news every other minute. (This is spoilerish, if you're Joey on Friends.) "Oh my god! Beth just died!" Then someone else runs in. "We're having twins!" And then "Daddy died in the war!" And then "I'm getting married!" "My novel was published!" "The nazis are coming!" On and on with the

In attempting to review a book one did not choose but which was chosen by a book discussion group, there would seem to be different variables at play. Not having read Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women, I was initially somewhat taken aback by the endpaper notes detailing the author's rediscovered book, A Long Fatal Love Chase, words about "a passionate cry from a beautiful, impetuous young woman marked by obsessional love to a man named Philip Tempest", prose that caused the novel to seem a...

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.” ----Louisa May AlcottFirst let's just wish this talented and brilliant author, Louisa May Alcott, a very, very Happy 184th Birthday and we will only hope that her stories be loved, read and adored by all ages of readers from around the world. And on this special occasion, I'd like to pen a review piece about one of her not so popular book, A Long Fatal Love Chase which is targeted for mature audience and was written before her li

This book was fascinating although I have to admit that part of the fascination was reading an Alcott novel that was such a polar opposite from those I'm familiar with. This story has only recently been published. Originally considered too sensational, Alcott's manuscript was basically undiscovered until recently. According to the editor, she had published other thrillers but didn't become that well known as an author until the publishing of Little Women. The plot deals with several heavy issues...

Delightfully, hilariously sensational. :) Recommend for those in the mood for an old fashioned Gothic read.

Review Dedication: Many thanks to Cafe Libri Yahoo Group member and now Cafe Libri Lunch Community member Cari for her help with the research for the review.This was one of the best emotional roller coaster rides a book has taken me on in a long time. I have never been a fan of Louisa May Alcott's books because they always felt a little too wholesome. A Long Fatal Love Chase, however, shows that Alcott was able to write about the darker sides of human nature, especially as it concerned obsession...

Here is a tale of love and love lost. Of good verses evil. Of an angel and a devil.Be forewarned, this is quite a departure for our beloved Louisa May Alcott, if you're wanting another great American novel such as Little Women – with it's quaintness, happiness, and steadfastness in family and sisterly love. 'Love Chase' is much darker and more dramatic. In fact, it was so sensational that even though Louisa's publisher asked her for a novel with “absorbingly interesting” cliffhangers, he couldn'...

It's fun to read the kind of thing Jo wrote during her "wicked" days--and find that she wasn't very wicked at all. Rosamond is as innocent a heroine as ever wielded a needle, which is a relief. (But the romance between her and the priest was weird, to say the least. I wouldn't describe Alcott as anti-Catholic, but she CLEARLY didn't get the beauty of priestly celibacy.)I'm rather miffed at all the online articles I've ever read that paint Louisa May Alcott as a frustrated sensationalist, who wro...

This was quite ridiculous. But, at the same time, on a more serious note, it also hit a contemporary chord when you look at Phillip Tempest's behaviour and his obsession with Rosamond. It was almost stereotypical stalker behaviour. Doing everything he could to catch her and not leave her alone, not accepting that the relationship was over, not respecting Rosamond's decision and desire to live her life the way she wanted and also thinking that his love and obsession were utterly benevolent in nat...