A review by cjtanner
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

3.0

I found myself disappointed in this book, I suppose mostly due to what I thought it would be about, and what it was actually about. I thought this book would be more about women in geek culture, but it ended up being about quite a mix of things. I did really enjoy reading about those topics in geek culture, including being a female writer, Gamergate and the ballot stuffing for the Hugo Awards, and I just wish there was more of that. Even though the book is divided into sections about certain topics, the essays contained within those topics seem even a little disjointed and repetitive in other sections. I found it hard to keep reading sometimes because there was so much jumping around, it just didn't seem to flow well for me. I did think the author has a very strong voice and her mentions of her own fiction and her process of trying to portray women in her novels in new ways sounds like something I would like to read. Even though this book wasn't quite for me, I have high hopes for her fiction.