PLOT: 3/5
CHARACTERS: 4/5
WRITING STYLE: 4/5
CLIMAX: 4/5
ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5
Actually the above factors doesn't zone in the experience one will have after reading this book. It might label the other YA fictions very precisely but not this one.
This books is the third instalment of Holly Bourne's Spinster Club series. And this is my favourite book of the three.I am really skeptical about picking up YA novels because they ultimately tend to be about meeting the love of your life while you are in your teens, which is a weary and pretentious subject for me as a reader. But this book is too good that shut my life down for a whole day and completed it in one go.
Favourite quote from the book:
“I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.”
― Holly Bourne, What's a Girl Gotta Do?
Getting into the story, Lottie, Amber and Evie are three friends who start their spinster club, which essentially is a feminist club to reclaim the word. They are all kick ass in their own way. Lottie is the driving force, she is the spirit and she is the protagonist of this particular book. She owns her sexuality, she is smart, beautiful ( not that it should matter) and knows her worth.She aspires to get into Cambridge. She encounters sexual harassment on street and is really shaken up by it and she wants to change it. Change all of it. She wants to change the world. Pretty lofty ideas for a teenager right? And thus she starts a month long project of calling our sexism in her every day life. Does that seem bonkers? Yes , the girl is absolutely bonkers and that's what makes her endearing. And in this month long journey, she gets exhausted, tired and she wants to give up on everything. This is her story. A feminist story and a story that isn't told enough number of times.
Here's the agenda of her project and the book:
HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION:
1. Call out anything that is unfair on one gender
2. Don't call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep and breathe)
3. Always try to keep it funny
4. Don't let anything slide. Even when you start to break...
Lottie's determined to change the world with her #Vigilante vlog.
Holly Bourne will be in list of absolute favourite writers from here on. The girl has won me over bit by bit. I was skeptical in the first book, I warmed up to her in the next one and in this one I absolutely loved her because I didn't know this is the story I needed to read most in so many of my life scenarios until I read it. I was always hesitant to say " I am a feminist" in case I antagonised people along the way, but after reading this book I got the strength to say exactly how I feel about women's rights and the world we live in.
Will I recommend the book? Yes, Yes, Yes, absolutely YES. Go for it. Because it shows what it takes to fight something that is bigger than you. It's not easy, it's not going to be not scary but it will ultimately be worth it because everyone of us want
To quote the book:
"I wanted to be the sort of person who could face themselves in the mirror."
And also because this book is hilarious and inspiring in the same measure.
CHARACTERS: 4/5
WRITING STYLE: 4/5
CLIMAX: 4/5
ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5
Actually the above factors doesn't zone in the experience one will have after reading this book. It might label the other YA fictions very precisely but not this one.
This books is the third instalment of Holly Bourne's Spinster Club series. And this is my favourite book of the three.I am really skeptical about picking up YA novels because they ultimately tend to be about meeting the love of your life while you are in your teens, which is a weary and pretentious subject for me as a reader. But this book is too good that shut my life down for a whole day and completed it in one go.
Favourite quote from the book:
“I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.”
― Holly Bourne, What's a Girl Gotta Do?
Getting into the story, Lottie, Amber and Evie are three friends who start their spinster club, which essentially is a feminist club to reclaim the word. They are all kick ass in their own way. Lottie is the driving force, she is the spirit and she is the protagonist of this particular book. She owns her sexuality, she is smart, beautiful ( not that it should matter) and knows her worth.She aspires to get into Cambridge. She encounters sexual harassment on street and is really shaken up by it and she wants to change it. Change all of it. She wants to change the world. Pretty lofty ideas for a teenager right? And thus she starts a month long project of calling our sexism in her every day life. Does that seem bonkers? Yes , the girl is absolutely bonkers and that's what makes her endearing. And in this month long journey, she gets exhausted, tired and she wants to give up on everything. This is her story. A feminist story and a story that isn't told enough number of times.
Here's the agenda of her project and the book:
HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION:
1. Call out anything that is unfair on one gender
2. Don't call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep and breathe)
3. Always try to keep it funny
4. Don't let anything slide. Even when you start to break...
Lottie's determined to change the world with her #Vigilante vlog.
Holly Bourne will be in list of absolute favourite writers from here on. The girl has won me over bit by bit. I was skeptical in the first book, I warmed up to her in the next one and in this one I absolutely loved her because I didn't know this is the story I needed to read most in so many of my life scenarios until I read it. I was always hesitant to say " I am a feminist" in case I antagonised people along the way, but after reading this book I got the strength to say exactly how I feel about women's rights and the world we live in.
Will I recommend the book? Yes, Yes, Yes, absolutely YES. Go for it. Because it shows what it takes to fight something that is bigger than you. It's not easy, it's not going to be not scary but it will ultimately be worth it because everyone of us want
To quote the book:
"I wanted to be the sort of person who could face themselves in the mirror."
And also because this book is hilarious and inspiring in the same measure.
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