Not my cup of tea. There was a long lead in of information that the reader needed to know about the main character. There is not very much interaction between characters for quite a while into the book. It did not hook me.

Although this was supposed to be a work of fiction it reads like a non-fiction book. I learned quite a lot about woman suffrage, a subject I knew a little about but not a whole bunch. This book is very informative. If you are looking to learn then this is for you. If you are expecting to read a novel similar in style to Jennifer Chiaverini's "Resistance Women", you will be disappointed.
I felt no connection to any of the characters and there is very little dialogue with which one could relate, making it very difficult to get a "sense" of any of the women, "a sense" of who they really were and thought and felt.
On the whole an informative book about an extremely important chapter of history, just too dry to be a captivating novel. 3 stars, thank you to William Morrow and Custom House and to NetGalley for the free ARC of this novel, I am leaving my honest review in return.

Jennifer does a good job creating the characters who surrounded the women's movement at the turn of the century as they struggled to redefine their roles and demand the right to vote. The women and men depicted reflect the variety of personalities, values and viewpoints of the era.

However, I do not care for historical fiction with its inventive language and situations about real people. While I enjoy books that include historical elements as part of their plots, it had slipped by me that this book is a historical novel. It is not the real story about the real women and men involved in the suffragette movement which is what I was looking forward to reading.

Jennifer Chiaverini's book, The Women's March, is an account of the 1913 parade of 8000 women marching for the vote for all, not just the women residing in the nine states where women could vote. Much of the book tells of the women's organizations involved and the planning for the parade, It was scheduled for the day before Wilson was to be inaugurated as the 28th President, along the same route that t his inaugural parade would take. But it didn't appear that a new president would put the women any closer to the vote. . The Suffrage parade was met with many obstacles, most notably security issues, including inadequate and ineffective security, in spite of the promises that had been made to insure the safety of the women. In fact, the Suffragettes faced hostile, violent attacks from mobs. I appreciated the opportunity to learn about an event I hadn't known much about, but I missed the author's usual delving into the characters as found in her prior works. This book is labeled as a novel, but it read more like a history book. The information about the characters was factual, and there didn't appear to be much of the historical fiction element included. Alice Paul, the Chair of the Event, and Ida Wells-Barnett, a Journalist and Civil Rights Activist were two standouts who I hope to read more about
While reading about the The Women's March of 1913 the recurring thought I had was that we haven't come very far in the one hundred plus years since! ! While we have the vote, unfortunately we still face misogyny, racial and gender discrimination.
Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. #NetGalley #TheWomenMarch

I had high hopes for this one as I love historical fiction, but it left me a bit deflated. There’s a great story to be told but to me, it felt a bit bogged down in its delivery. The story of the women’s suffrage movement is one that needs to be told more often, so I am pleased with that aspect, but the delivery needs a lot of polishing to help with the flow of the story. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

I have really mixed feelings about this book. I have read all of Chiaverini's books previously and she has always been one of my favorite authors. She usually does such a nice job of blending the historical facts and developing the characters. In this book, I felt that it read more like a nonfiction book. I have to say that I learned a lot about "The Women's March", so I am glad that I stuck with it and finished the book. It is obvious that it is well researched. However, what I missed was getting to know the characters. I felt that she did the best with Ida B. Wells-Barnett, but I was still left wanting to know more about her. The other two ladies, I felt that we were just told about them, but I felt no real connection to them. I was really left with wanting to know them and care about them. I did enjoy the ending and how all of the characters came together for the actual March,.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity of reading and advanced copy.

Three different women, three very different backgrounds, one ultimate goal. It is 1910, and even following the heroic conquests of Susan B. Anthony, women's suffrage is still not legal nationwide. Numerous organizations have been formed, yet none have focused on bringing the issue to a national level. Tired of politicians, board members, and antisuffragists ignoring the need for progression, three women follow their own volition to win equal rights for all. In Jennifer Chiaverini’s book, "The Women’s March", readers follow along the journeys of Alice Paul, Maud Malone, and Ida Wells-Barnett as their individual fights for justice weave together to win the right to vote for all women.

When an advanced reading copy of this book was offered to me by NetGalley and The Book Club Girls, I was immediately intrigued. Having the chance of learning from not only one person’s account, but three different people’s accounts, of how the nineteenth amendment came to be fascinated me.

Laura Morelli, another historical fiction writer, once said, "If a historical novelist has done their job, all of that research is invisible to the reader. It simply melts away, and the reader is transported to another century." In my opinion, this is what makes a historical fiction book enjoyable. However, while reading "The Women’s March", I kept waiting for the history to “melt” into the story; unfortunately, that never happened. At times, I felt I was reading a textbook expressing only dates and events. I do not want to read a book of facts and research, if I did, I would have probably enjoyed History more in school.

Yet, this book was not all bad. The depth and emotion Jennifer was able to bring forth was impeccable. I could “hear” the anguish, pain, and heartfelt devotion these women must have felt. Plus, this book was very well edited, as there were little to no spelling and grammatical errors that I could find.

Overall, I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. Although the author was writing about historical events, and I understand there is not much room for embellishment, I still feel there were missed opportunities to bring the reader in. I was truly hoping to be engrossed in the story instead of worrying about following the facts.

None the less, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys American History, especially women who never give up a fight for equal rights.

Women’s March by Jennifer Chiaverini. It was a very insightful book about the woman’s suffrage movement. These women went though so much harassment, imprisonments, hunger strikes, just to get the vote. And then some didn’t want the vote for all, just for whites. Ms Chiaverini did a tremendous job with her research. It made me want to delve into old newspapers (which you can get from your local library though online apps).

After the initial pages, I found myself not connecting with the story or characters, so I decided to pass on this book. Did not finish

I did learn some about the women's march from this book. The story was boring and so slow moving from start to finish. I liked that the story was told from three different female points of view so I got the reactions about how each character felt about decisions made for the march.

Just finished my ARE of The Women’s March to be released on July 27. Told from the perspective of multiple women rights activists, Jennifer Chiaverini brings to life the endless and tireless activities these women participated in as well as understanding how they dedicated their lives to obtaining equal rights for all in this novel. Put this on your TBR list if you like historical fiction!!!

To me, The Women's March would have been better served as a non-fiction book. If written from that perspective the book would have come off as interesting and engaging instead of dry and overly fact driven. As a fiction book it doesn't work as well, because Chiaverini is working so hard to incorporate factual information that the characters aren't developed overly well, and it leaves the reader feeling like a whole bunch of facts strung together by focusing on three women who were involved in the march. Which means that this story falls into another trope of women's historical fiction - weaving together the story of several women either in the same time (or not) to create a narrative. I will give Chiaverini credit for not focusing on the overdone WWII time period, or telling the story from two different time periods, but it's still hard to feel connected in the characters. In many ways I felt most invested in Ida because (real life spoiler alert!) Black women's voting rights were not equal to those of white women at the national level with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, several years after this march took place. Knowing this made me heartsick that she was fighting just as much as Maud and Alice, but wouldn't be regarded as equal to them. Maud is the most enjoyable character - relatable in her passion, grounded in the fact that she still needs a job to pay the bills. Alice, regrettably, comes off as well-intentioned but too preoccupied in making the march pretty and beautiful, and staying in the good graces of the "right" women to welcome anyone to the cause that is passionate and wants to make it a success. This is a hypocritical perspective when she's angry and confused by the anti-suffragettes that are perfectly fine with the fact that they are not legally allowed to vote. How can you be angry at women who want to prevent your cause from succeeding when you don't want all the support you can get to help it succeed?

I did not enjoy this book. I actually had to stop reading because I wasn't sure if this was meant to be fictional, or just another regurgitation of facts. I have read a lot about the women in this book, and I was hoping for a fictional take on their lives, however I was disappointed to find that wasn't the case. This could have been a great book, and usually this author writes great stories. This on the other hand was not at all on the level that she is able to write. If you like Women's History about Suffrage you can give this a try because you may learn new things. However I was not one of those readers.

I was happy to receive a advance copy for an honest review. I have read many of Ms Chiaverini books featuring the quilting world and loved them.
This was very good. I enjoyed the history about the Suffragettes and the personal details of the women.
I do wish it had more of a story -- it was more of a history lesson than a story. That being said the writing was very good and I learned alot -- worth a read

I learned a lot about the Woman's Suffrage March in Washington D.C., and three women who were deeply involved in the suffrage movement. A good read.

I was so excited to a get an advanced reader copy of this book! An interesting historical topic, an author I've never read but have heard such great things about, and my favorite genre of book sounds like the perfect summer reading!

I did learn a lot the suffrage movement in the early 1900's, and about some of the women who were involved that I hadn't heard of before.

But ... I really struggled to finish, and ended up skimming through most of it. I love historical fiction, but prefer books that do more telling of a story than sharing so many people, places and events that they begin to feel more like a history textbook than fictional novel.

"5" for the well researched history lesson, but a "2" for reading enjoyment and making me care about the characters.

Thank you to Harper Collins, NetGalley, and Book Club Girls for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed learning more about the suffragette march, especially through the novelized 'eyes' of the 3 prominent women. Much was learned of the backstory prior to the march. A very satisfying, and informative read

A strongly informational historical fiction title--prose reads almost like history versus historical fiction, but the lack of flourish and purple prose is not necessarily a bad thing, as this book is covering a topic few know about. Loved the use of multi POV--Maud Malone, Alice Paul, and Ida B Wells-Barnett. Does a good job of highlighting the race issue in suffrage that so many have overlooked.

Oh how I wanted to love thee. I decided to give this historical fiction book a try because well, how could I not like a book about the women that toiled to earn my right to vote? Well, it happened.

I was never a big fan of history class and this book felt like never ending history class homework. I felt like there wasn’t much of a fictional story and it read like a textbook full of organizational names and leaders. There seemed to be no fictional story at all. It tells the story of three different women working towards achieving the right for women to vote in America. I appreciate the history and the women that participated in the suffrage movement, but this just didn’t work for me at all.

Thank you to Harper Collins, NetGalley, and Book Club Girls for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I so wanted to like this book because I am a big fan of Jennifer Chiaverini. But I felt I had to force myself to sit down and plod through it. I did not care for the fact that it seemed to be mostly a glorified list of events that happened instead of a real story. The only character I found interesting was Ida B. Wells, and that is because I am from Chicago and have heard her name but never knew much about her. Why was so much emphasis put on the outfits and colors that the women wore? I did not think that was necessary. I did read with interest the description of the parade at the end, but I was shocked when the story ended so abruptly. I was looking forward to reading about how the vote finally was approved. I would have liked to know (maybe I should from the history books) if the vote was won nationally or state by state.