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lily_snyder's review against another edition
funny
informative
fast-paced
4.25
count ur days bridgerton everything just got a whole lot less sexy
kimlynn77's review against another edition
2.0
Would have enjoyed this book better if the author hadn't used the stylistic choice of it being a time travel journey. The author also "talked" to the reader as if they were fools; I think she was trying to be conversationalist and funny but it did not work for me. I did enjoy learning about the actual history of the time period.
forestnymph22's review against another edition
The book is hilarious! I borrowed it from the library and ran out of time.
perjacxis's review against another edition
3.0
I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I had known less about the topic and if the narrator had been less condescending.
booksteaandchocolate's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
1.0
I'm really disappointed and angry about this book. As someone who really adores historical non-fiction and women's history, I was really thrilled to read this. I thought the way the book was written was cute and funny. It was easy to work through. However, this book is more to poke fun of the period and reaffirms a lot of stereotypes that people have about the Victorian Era. It seems there was very little research done. I couldn't find her background to maybe help explain if maybe she just has a historical degree or is a Victorian Era researcher, but I found nothing.
I'm a little sad. Where not everything is inaccurate, it's not handled tactfully nor clearly.
I'm a little sad. Where not everything is inaccurate, it's not handled tactfully nor clearly.
xsleepyshadows's review against another edition
3.0
Have you ever met a person who longs to live in a "simple and quaint" era or Victorian age or some other time where many people we mistreated, racism and sexism was rampant, and it was filled with filth and disease? I'm not a fan of them and this books author isn't either as she has the real facts of what living in this era would have actually been like for women. She's also a little snarky about it to these people which kinda fills me with delight. I've learned a few things from this books because not a lot of people cover this era and when they do they often romanticize it, pretty good read that I enjoyed. ~Ashley