The Female of the Species
- Publication year
- 2016
Impressions
- Diana Catshared an impression9 years ago
💀Spooky🔮Hidden Depths💡Learnt A Lot🎯Worthwhile💞Loved Up💧SoppyAn excelent book. Deals with very important topics like slut shaming and rape culture in a very real way. I definitely reccomend this book.
- Mariashared an impression6 days ago
🙈Lost On MeAlex's rage and violence were the only relatable thing in this book- how we women are just onlookers of our own demise and it seems like we can't do anything about it, the rage building up until it bursts. That kind of a woman wouldn't fall for a jock who plows through women like they don't matter. What a waste of a character. The romance feels so misplaced and is overshadowing the premise that this book was supposed to be something more than that. Jack is so unlikeable, his misogyny never gets addressed, the constant madonna-whore complex, his weird lewd comments... And yet the author tries to make me believe that he's "one of the good ones". It draws a point to young girls that they are the ones that should change misogynistic boys, a futile promise that contradicts the novel's very own acknowledgment that one in three will be raped. If those are the statistics, it's just impossible for all women to find a "good" male partner. The ending was stupid and abrupt but at least it didn't end in marriage or some other thing that would piss me off way more.
- benteskoushared an impression4 years ago
👍Worth readingElsker de sarkastiske bemærkninger. Og slutningen... Saras værk 👏🏼
Quotes
- Nati Bremmenhas quoted6 years ago
It’s easier to like animals than people - Seth Bingohas quoted7 years ago
But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll. - benteskouhas quoted4 years agoI hold my phone tightly, too aware that the present is all we have if I can’t mention the past and she won’t talk about the future.
