baronessekat | 2018 reading challenge: a book about feminism

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Really 2.5 stars.

This is a book that I can't say I liked, but I certainly didn't hate it. Pure and simple... it was boring and not the story I was expecting.

With all the hoooplah over this book when it first came out as one of the "next great books on feminism", I really expected more on the topic. Instead the feminist cause and the ideals of the movement were secondary, almost tertiary to the general story of the life of the protagonist,Greer Kadetsky. From the blurbs on the book I expected a lot more on her being mentored by the fictional equivalent of Gloria Steinem, more of a real story of the Old Guard passing the baton onto the New Guard.

Frankly, it all felt lacking. I personally thought The Devil Wears Prada did a better job of portraying the idea of modern feminism than this book did.

Would not recommend. Really the only thing that kept me going was the performance by the reader.

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