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mainjain's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting
isabellyy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.5
kdburton's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
This book isn’t what I thought it would be or even, really, what the title and back cover suggest. It’s not an exploration of monstrosity in an academic/philosophical way. It’s much more of a memoir anchored by the lens of re-visioning mythological women monsters. That’s a cool idea, but also not what I signed up for.
Well written with compelling pairings of mythology and memoir. A lot of the ideas would have blown my mind pre-Women’s Studies 201 and subsequent Honours degree.
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Well written with compelling pairings of mythology and memoir. A lot of the ideas would have blown my mind pre-Women’s Studies 201 and subsequent Honours degree.
— owned
librarymouse's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
This was a good read, but there is more autobiography and less focus on the mythological monsters than I was expecting.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexual assault, Grief, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness
lucyp_bd1's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
tashaseegmiller's review against another edition
5.0
Part discussion of mythology, part memoir, part manifesto, this series of essays leans hard into what it takes for a Greek monster to be considered such, and how those characteristics are often used as a way to vilify women today.