The Female Persuasion
Ratings14
Average rating3.6
Excellent coming of age story, that touches heavily on internal and external womanhood - what that means and how to fully grow in to it.
On another note, I really loved the topic surrounding women using their outside voice. This stuck with me.
This is a bit tricky for me to objectively review, because it without question falls directly into one of my favorite genres: the bildungsroman. Novels focused on the intellectual, physical, and emotional development of everyday people.
Having said that, this is one did what I'm always hoping my books will do. It took me out of myself, and left me thinking about its world while living my life.
So its not perfect. Some stretches kind of drag, and some of the characters pop a bit more than others. None of that matters in the end, when the world of feminists, professors, and mentors seen in The Female Persuasion is as vital as it is.
I did not like this book. I did not like it at all. It was so difficult to actually get through the physical book for me that I had to get the audiobook and listen on 1.25 and 1.5x speed just to get through it. In my opinion, it was awful. It was dry, the plot didn't really seem to go anywhere, and there were more than a few times that I was actually angry at this book. It really felt like the author was pandering towards a certain kind of audience. I'm all for feminism– I would consider myself a feminist– but this book was just.... it was just too much. The only saving grace for this book, in my eyes, was Cory's storyline. Honestly, I would rather have read just a book focused on his storyline and his alone.