A review by thelavenderliterarysociety
Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara

3.0

In the end, I was happy I read it, but this book and especially this author's voice, really struggled to create a broader historical context for these women's stories that did not sound like the caption to a Buzzfeed gif. Surely, Madame de Pompadour's champagne endorsement could have been likened to someone besides Chrissy Teigen. Really, I recognize that I may not have been the target audience, particularly for the jokes, because I am maybe ten or twenty years too young, but it was really the anachronistic third-wave feminist lens that particularly fell flat in the earlier chapters when it seemed even more out of place as the sole commentary on the historical information presented to me. I am still a whiskey fan and this did make me want to try a cosmo though! Um, go women!