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A review by hisparks23
Women are the Fiercest Creatures by Andrea Dunlop
3.0
3.5–I was intrigued by the cover/title of this and flew through it. The tech angle was interesting and I’m obsessed with the Pacific Northwest so I loved the setting and the tone reminded me a bit of Lianne Moriarty a la Big Little Lies, but it’s such a quick read that it was almost too quick?
This is marketed/blurbed as a story about 3 women with a past or present involving the same man so I think I was picturing John Tucker Must Die, but make it tech, and was so excited to see what the story was “leading up to.” I felt like each chapter was building momentum towards the women becoming allies, but I was frustrated by how much the women let Jake get away during the story and the excuses they made for him. I was hoping the end would provide some satisfying fierceness, but it didn’t quite get there. I wanted to see the revenge unfold and not just read a few paragraphs about it in the epilogue!
I also desperately wanted a POV from Jessica’s perspective and still have so many unanswered questions. But maybe leaving it up to the reader to draw their own conclusions is part of the point?
This is marketed/blurbed as a story about 3 women with a past or present involving the same man so I think I was picturing John Tucker Must Die, but make it tech, and was so excited to see what the story was “leading up to.” I felt like each chapter was building momentum towards the women becoming allies, but I was frustrated by how much the women let Jake get away during the story and the excuses they made for him. I was hoping the end would provide some satisfying fierceness, but it didn’t quite get there. I wanted to see the revenge unfold and not just read a few paragraphs about it in the epilogue!
I also desperately wanted a POV from Jessica’s perspective and still have so many unanswered questions. But maybe leaving it up to the reader to draw their own conclusions is part of the point?