Book Review: The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
Three Stars
“Every life is a tragedy. We are all going to die. There is no other ending, no matter the choices you make.”
Given this book’s title, no reader should be surprised to get a both-barrels blast of anger and defensiveness. That said, Hurley expresses herself well, aside from her gratuitous use of adjective and adverb forms of the f-word. There’s the making of two good books here: one focused on writing, the other on feminism. Despite that, I liked this book.
“Who and what is good is highly dependent on who wins, and whose point of view we’re writing from.”
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