This is a chick-lit, historical fiction, character driven novel of feminism, badassery and seduction. I loved all of fem-y life advice quotes throughout the book. That was one of my fav parts.

Weight shaming is an ongoing theme in this one. Mother’s who weight-shame their daughters deserve a special place in hell filled with only tasty cakes and milkshakes. Same goes for POS men who don’t value women and think acting like a pig is acceptable.

This book also talks about how back in the day women would seek to find a patron. I cannot imagine having to do that. These women adapted, taking the men’s interest in all things sexual and used it to their advantage, they used the men’s idiotic penis driven mentality and fear of smart women against them…climbing in heels and in spite of the men trying to hold them down. I’m so glad I don’t live in a time where I need to dumb myself down to secure employment.

I wasn’t around in the era of men dying from “pneumonia & strange flu” and it makes me sad that people were so frightened to be their most authentic selves back then and meanwhile so many other men were running amuck acting like total pigs treating women like sh!t and that was a-ok. Smh.

In a way it gave me Lessons In Chemistry vibes. It was the same but different.