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The Book Bitch
Book reviews focused on female authors writing fresh, female-led stories.
Stacy Willingham's Psychological Thriller, A Flicker in the Dark, is an Impressive Debut
The best psychological thriller I have read in a while 📖🖤
This read follows Chloe, a child psychologist based in Baton Rouge. Ironically, Chloe is haunted by her own childhood in small-town Louisiana, in which a serial killer that targeted teenage girls, one of which was her close friends, held a sinister cloud over her hometown and upbringing.
Taddeo takes on fiction in her first novel, Animal, for a Read That Feels Ravenous
“Let me tell you: men love cruelty. Cruelty looks better on a woman than the perfect dress.” ⚡️
The book follows Joan, a character who embodies female rage. After a traumatic childhood and a tumultuous history with men, Joan seeks out a new adventure in hopes to find someone that might connect her to her past.
Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half Explores Whether or Not We Can Ever Truly Leave Home
This beauty may have been the best book I’ve read so far this year ✨
The story follows twin sisters that are inseparable as children until one day they are split in two. Following both sisters and their families, the book is centered around themes of identity, race, gender, and what it means to be family.
Rachel Hawkin's novel "Reckless Girls" - A Thriller Based on a Remote Island That is Not So Relaxing
The fun, fast-paced kind of thriller you can read in a weekend 🍃
The book takes place on Meroe Island, a remote destination with a dark history. Six different travelers arrive on the island by sailboat, all for their own reasons. The visitors and their motives for visiting the island may be more sinister than they seem.
In The View Was Exhausting, an Imaginary Celebrity Love Story Becomes Something Much More Complex
“Faking a love story is a whole lot easier than falling in love.”
The book follows Win, an A-list movie star, and Leo who is a golden boy socialite from a wealthy, famous family. The two are set up with one another as a publicity stunt - they have undeniable chemistry in front of the cameras, but also behind closed doors, and as we read, the lines between these double lives begin to blur.
Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart - A Chilly Contemporary Midwestern Murder Mystery Novel
Juniper returns to Jericho, her hometown, to confront the very reason she left in the first place - to regain a relationship with her teenage daughter who’s been raised by her mother while also trying to find answers to an unsolved crime that disrupted her & her family's entire lives.
In her debut book, What Would Frida Do?, Arianna Davis paints the artist as a modern mentor
While during her lifetime she was not highly regarded, today Frida Kahlo is much more than one of the most well-known female artists in the world - she’s an icon. In Arianna Davis’ unique new book, What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly, the author plays on the artist’s modern rebirth while also taking the icon off her pedestal and showing us what we can learn from her.
Hermione as Heroine: A Frustrated Feminist Rereads the Harry Potter Series
Like many young kids, I was obsessed with the Harry Potter series. Yet, I do remember being annoyed by the series’ main character and hero. Rather it was Hermione who I thought was the coolest, the strongest, the most heroic. When rereading a decade and a half later, I found I had the same responses I did as a child. I had to wonder, did I just favor Hermione because she’s a girl and one that I could see myself reflected in? Or is Hermione the underlying hero of the story?
