Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

The It Girls takes a thoughtful look at the complex lives of historical, influential women. These women often had their ambitions and accomplishments minimized in order to create space for the drama and gossip their lives provided the public. I enjoyed the author’s comparisons between historic and modern “it girls” to help contextualize their cultural impacts.

This is like the nerdy history girls version of a gossip column - loved it!

It was really fascinating to learn about the lives of historical IT girls, and really see the similarities in the treatment of beautiful and driven women from the past to now.

While fascinating and detailed with intriguing life tidbits, I rather had hoped for a little bit of a deeper ending or conclusive wrap up which spoke about how society allows this to continue or…I dunno, something. It felt like a collection of interesting mini-bios but I was missing the hard-hitting, gravitas thread that pulled them all together in an impactful lesson…
Don’t get me wrong, glimpses of this were throughout, but I think I wanted a bit more depth.

I’ve always been interested and fascinated by an It Girl. It was so interesting learning of the different sit girls of the course of our history and how they came to be