A review by happentobeshort
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

If you're like me and you listen to a lot of history podcasts, you'll likely be disappointed by this book. The podcasts I listen to often don't go into much detail on these very cool and diverse women since you know, they're podcasts, and usually not meant to be such long form entertainment, so I was expecting more detail on each woman in this book. That was not the case. It really felt like I was just listening to a Buzzfeed listicle that kinda went over the important dates and a summary of why each woman was in the book. Also! I was expecting slightly more obscure or forgotten~ women, but something like 70% of the women mentioned I already knew about from other media. 

TLDR it's a fun book but reads like a listicle rather than like, a creative non-fiction book on historical women, and the entries on each woman are really brief.